Something strange may be happening in the New York Knicks’ coaching search.
According to Marc Stein of the New York Times, Rich Kleiman, the manager and business partner of Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant, is privately pushing the New York Knicks to hire Mark Jackson as head coach.
Interesting wrinkle in the Knicks' coaching search: League sources say Mark Jackson has received a strong behind-the-scenes push from Rich Kleiman, Kevin Durant's longtime business partner and a lifelong Knicks fan who is close to both Jackson and Knicks president Steve Mills
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) May 2, 2018
Kleiman is a friends of Knicks GM Scott Perry and a lifelong Knicks fan, and has an interesting tweet to prove it.
Imma run the Knicks one day
— Rich Kleiman (@richkleiman) February 21, 2018
Speculation immediately turns to whether Durant will end up on the Knicks one day, but it doesn’t seem likely. It may not even be likely that Jackson gets the job with another candidate out there and available.
