Will D'Antoni's assistants follow him to NY?

 
Phoenix Suns executive Steve Kerr might not have been totally enamored with Mike D'Antoni's resistance to a more defensive-minded approach to his up-tempo system, but Kerr isn't quite ready to divorce his franchise from the D'Antoni style altogether. [link]

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