Like many New Yorkers, Jon Stewart is a tortured Knicks fan. The longtime “Each day Present” host, who now hosts Apple TV’s “The Drawback with Jon Stewart,” was famously caught on digicam in 2018 wanting like he simply heard the worst information of his life after then-Dubs massive man JaVale McGee nailed a fadeaway at Madison Sq. Backyard.
On a latest episode of his Apple TV present, Stewart introduced on Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, maybe making an attempt a belated recruiting pitch on behalf of his hometown staff. Kerr, as chances are you’ll bear in mind, selected the Golden State teaching job over the Knicks job again in 2014, a call that is labored out fairly properly for him.
As Kerr advised Stewart, the Warriors had been only a higher possibility, regardless of Kerr’s shut ties to then-team president Phil Jackson. He identified that expertise is an important figuring out issue when debating between head coach openings, and Golden State clearly had extra expertise.
“One in all my good buddies stated, ‘Which job do you suppose Phil [Jackson] would take?'” Kerr stated. He went with the roster that had future Corridor of Famers Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Inexperienced. Jackson, after all, coached his share of Corridor of Famers throughout separate Bulls and Lakers dynasties.
It wasn’t simply that the Warriors opening was appetizing, Kerr continued. The Knicks opening, even with Jackson in place, was tenuous at finest.
“Actually, if I had taken the Knicks job, I might’ve been spun by that cycle and gone inside two years, assured,” Kerr concluded. Jackson finally employed Derek Fisher, who lasted one-and-a-half seasons earlier than he was fired.
Kerr’s assertion most likely does not make Stewart really feel any higher about his staff’s missed alternative, even when Kerr is correct.
