National Basketball Association

Jackson will take time to decide if Rambis is Knicks coach

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 10:12 p.m. ET

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GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) Phil Jackson wants to work with a coach he knows, and he'll take some time before deciding if that's Kurt Rambis.

Jackson says Thursday that Rambis will be interviewed for the New York Knicks' coaching job after he finished the season as the team's interim coach. Jackson, the team's president of basketball operations, says he hasn't taken or made any calls about the position, which Rambis held since Derek Fisher was fired in early February.

The Knicks finished 32-50, their third straight season out of the playoffs, and there are a number of top candidates who would be available if Jackson opened a wide-spread coaching search.

But the 11-time champion as a coach says ''only people probably I know will be in the interview process.''

Jackson gave no timetable.