Marv Albert told Steve Kerr ‘it never ends well’ with the New York Knicks

Wednesday evening, TNT analyst Steve Kerr accepted the position as head coach of the Golden State Warriors, taking over for the recently fired Mark Jackson. In officially taking that position, Kerr turned down an offer from his former head coach Phil Jackson and the New York Knicks to lead their charge.

Of course, Kerr was offered one more year by Golden State than he was New York, which definitely aided in the decision to a large degree, but were there any other factors involved? Say, a little pep talk from someone who knows the Knicks rather well in Kerr’s broadcast partner Marv Albert.

We’ll never know the exact answer to that, but we do know, according to Bob Raissman at the New York Daily News, that Albert did have a discussion with Kerr and he had a less than flattering message about the Knicks organization.

"“Well, I told him it never ends well there. Just look at recent history. It’s because of one man (Dolan),” Albert told me Thursday over the telephone. “There is no happiness there. I say this with all kinds of friends I have there and (the ones) at the MSG Network. Everybody hates being there. For coaches it’s very difficult.”"

Now again, we don’t know, and we probably never will, whether or not Albert’s comments had anything to do with Kerr spurning an offer from his old Bulls coach when it had seemed for so long like that marriage was a lock, but not many people know the Knicks organization like Albert, so his words do resonate.