Carmelo Anthony’s plan to rehab his knee during the All-Star break

“I think he was laying the foundation of doing things the right way and turning this franchise around”. Jackson led the Warriors to consecutive winning seasons for the first time since the early 90’s and a 50-win season in his final season with the team.

It was encouraging to see Rambis cut his rotation, but there is still plenty of questions to be asked about it. Against a team as explosive as the Wizards are, why did Grant and Kyle O’Quinn both get DNP-Coach’s Decision and Lance Thomas play only 11 minutes. With the record of 23-31, five games behind the No. 8 spot in the Eastern Conference, Jackson pulled the trigger and thought of a change to salvage the season.

Carmelo Anthony said he felt shocked by the New York Knicks’ decision to fire Derek Fisher. ‘The reality is that we have chances to win these games, but we are not winning them’. He had a nice block of Wall to help keep the Knicks alive, but there is no reason he should not be more involved offensively for the sometimes offensively challenged Knicks.

The Knicks may not be built for the playoffs, but now they’ll be looking for a head coach who can extract as much talent as possible from this current roster after Fisher failed to successfully incorporate the Triangle offense.

When Jackson met the media on Monday, he praised Anthony. He did acknowledge that the Knicks haven’t played well over the last couple weeks and bore some blame for Fisher being let go, however.

Kurt Rambis will take over as interim coach for Fisher, who was 38-96 in his first National Basketball Association coach job.

CAVALIERS 120, KINGS 100: LeBron James recorded his 40th career triple-double while Kyrie Irving matched his season high with 32 points and Cleveland rolled past Sacramento at home. “I’m pretty sure, me knowing him, he will learn from this experience and he will be on somebody else’s sideline pretty soon, if that’s what he wants”.

Fisher thanked the Knicks for providing him the opportunity on Tuesday via Twitter.

“For me, my short stint with [Fisher], my hat goes off to him as a coach, as a player”, Anthony said. His desire to stay in NY should be a sigh of relief for Knicks fans – he has three years left on his contract – but that instability remains a constant concern.

“This is a very talented team with strong characters and I am confident they will succeed”, Fisher was quoted by the Associated Press.

“That should be our goal as a team”, Anthony said.