Knicks' Walsh wooed D'Antoni with love and money, as Bulls lost out - NBA

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No timetable, indeed.
Published 5/12/2008 by your friendly BullsBlogger at Blog a Bull: Front Page Posts
... From what's been reported, most coherently from Chad Ford, is that it wasn't merely money that had D'Antoni going to the Knicks, but also a commitment from their GM and ownership that assured him of little meddling and much spending. Paxson instead, as Ford reports, wanted assurances that D'Antoni would hire a veteran defensive assistant coach. Indications from Phoenix was that D'Antoni didn't like Kerr suggesting the same, so why would he want to deal with similar issues in Chicago, for potentially less money? Now he can go to New York with a roster he knows can be ...

The Lazarus Job
Published 5/12/2008 at Fan Voice: Recent Topics in The Court Reporters: The NBA.com Blog
... the status quo when he lit a fire under the walk-it-up late '90s, early 00's NBA by inserting a an instant offense (:07 Seconds or Less) that opponents couldn't handle -- at least in the NBA regular season. Yet in Phoenix, with Steve Nash running the show and Amare Stoudemire picking and rolling to the hoop, D'Antoni had the perfect personnel for his rollicking O. In New York, D'Antoni won't have that kind of talent, but he has cachet and the boss, Knicks president Donnie Walsh, has his back . The last guy who coached the Knicks held both jobs. When you don't separate the ...