The last Hall of Fame coach to achieve the rare Triple Crown at Madison Square Garden was Larry Brown and we all know how that ended.

The worst season in the history of the franchise took another bizarre turn when Jackson, the NBA’s all-time highest paid executive, sent out two cryptic tweets in the wake of the Knicks losing their seventh straight on Sunday. Jackson neither deleted the tweets from his verified Twitter account nor did he address his comments with the media on Monday.

Instead, it was left to Derek Fisher, as if he doesn’t have enough issues on his plate, to have to answer for his boss.

“You guys should call Jeanie (Buss) and ask her about that,” Fisher joked, referring to Jackson’s fiancé and Lakers Vice President. “She knows him much better than any of us do.”

At 10-45, the Knicks own the league’s worst record and the embarrassment of a season spiraling out of control may be getting the best of Jackson. Hours following the Knicks 101-83 loss to LeBron James and the Cavs on Sunday, Jackson sent out two tweets two minutes apart just after 10 p.m.

mreinman wrote:

Knicks1969 wrote:With one tweet, Phil Jackson managed to throw his coach and team under the proverbial bus while also violating James Dolan’s sacred media policy.

The last Hall of Fame coach to achieve the rare Triple Crown at Madison Square Garden was Larry Brown and we all know how that ended.

The worst season in the history of the franchise took another bizarre turn when Jackson, the NBA’s all-time highest paid executive, sent out two cryptic tweets in the wake of the Knicks losing their seventh straight on Sunday. Jackson neither deleted the tweets from his verified Twitter account nor did he address his comments with the media on Monday.

Instead, it was left to Derek Fisher, as if he doesn’t have enough issues on his plate, to have to answer for his boss.

“You guys should call Jeanie (Buss) and ask her about that,” Fisher joked, referring to Jackson’s fiancé and Lakers Vice President. “She knows him much better than any of us do.”

At 10-45, the Knicks own the league’s worst record and the embarrassment of a season spiraling out of control may be getting the best of Jackson. Hours following the Knicks 101-83 loss to LeBron James and the Cavs on Sunday, Jackson sent out two tweets two minutes apart just after 10 p.m.

its a freakin tank ... GEEEEEEEEEEEZ - who cares what the record was. Would you rather we win 25 games?

I don't mind the tanking, I just would hate to watch this team be a bottom feeder the next three years

nixluva wrote:The media has been stoking every possible minuscule bit of information they can to try and start problems for the Knicks. It's really sad to watch. They started not long after the initial fanfare of hiring Phil and haven't stopped since. They've continued to bash the Knicks as if they didn't know that Phil went into tank mode after the trade and Melo had his surgery. There's no mystery to what is going on. Phil and Fish talk daily about what's going on so I think this is a bunch of nonsense. Once the season is over a lot of this crap should slow down and we can get on with the process of revamping this roster. Can't wait.

Yup, all these people complaining about 10 wins or whatever had better not have the hypocrisy to then rejoice if we end up drafting a stud.

Nalod wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

nixluva wrote:The media has been stoking every possible minuscule bit of information they can to try and start problems for the Knicks. It's really sad to watch. They started not long after the initial fanfare of hiring Phil and haven't stopped since. They've continued to bash the Knicks as if they didn't know that Phil went into tank mode after the trade and Melo had his surgery. There's no mystery to what is going on. Phil and Fish talk daily about what's going on so I think this is a bunch of nonsense. Once the season is over a lot of this crap should slow down and we can get on with the process of revamping this roster. Can't wait.

Yup, all these people complaining about 10 wins or whatever had better not have the hypocrisy to then rejoice if we end up drafting a stud.

Those fans, annoying as it may be are suffering and entitled to rejoice in a drafting stud.

I just think it's a bit much at this point to still be going on about the season knowing what this is all about. I hate to see the Knicks lose but we need a top pick to start the process of rebuilding for the future. We have to lose in order to improve our odds of getting a top 4 pick. That's been the case now for a while.

From my perspective (advocating that we tank), this season has been a perfect success. We will likely finish the season with the worst record, giving us a 25% chance at the top pick in one of the best draft classes ever, and a guaranteed top 4 pick.

Phil deserves kudos for enabling this to happen by ridding the team of any talent, maximizing our cap space, and getting us into position to draft Towns.

He gets an "A" from me this season. For those who would point to the Calderon trade I say this: "The object of that trade wasn't picking up Calderon, it was dumping a loser like Tyson who mailed it in on his team and teammates." Phil said he was going to get rid of those who didn't fit his idea of the sort of players he wanted. Then he got rid of Tyson, JR and Shump...all of whom (while certainly talented) played for themselves first. It was addition by subtraction.

Calderon was not a good pickup, but getting rid of Tyson who did not want to play here was a solid move.