Phil Jackson Gives Definitive Explanation for Terrible Knicks Season: "Sh*t Happens"

The Knicks have a franchise-record 61 losses this season.

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The NBA playoffs are just under two weeks away, and once again, the only way New York Knicks fans will be able to see their team play playoff basketball is in 2K. The team's suffered a franchise-record 61 losses this season, and just about everything's gone wrong—from Melo's knee to Derek Fisher's marriage, too many things involving the Knicks have soured. Face-to-face with Knicks season ticket holders at at town hall-style meeting, Knicks VP Phil Jackson summed it all up perfectly: "Shit happens." 

A tanktastic teardown wasn't in Jackson's plans last summer when he signed a 5-year/$60 million contract to play Knicks God, but he's playing with the chips he has right now. On the prospect of the Knicks landing a top draft pick, Jackson said it was a "godsend," before adding pleasantries towards the season ticket holders who paid for a full slate of trash basketball games: "I commiserate for the people who put a lot of money out there, who have season tickets who sit and watch the game. I empathize with that part of it," he said. 

Don't let that get you down though, season ticket holders! Yeah, you pay the highest average price in the NBA at $129.38 ​per seat, but your time and money won't be in vain, because hey, look at the shinny new draft pick coming in! 

"To rebuild this team, we knew we were going to have to take the team apart to get where we have to. I can make the argument we had to go through it. Shit happens and this season it did happen to us," added Jackson. 

Man oh man, did shit really happen this season, Phil. Take Karl-Anthony Towns this summer we'll pretend like this year didn't happen.

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[via The New York Post]

 

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