{"id":19420,"date":"2014-06-02T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phil-jackson-fined-25k-for-tampering\/"},"modified":"2014-06-03T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:10:07","slug":"phil-jackson-fined-25k-for-tampering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phil-jackson-fined-25k-for-tampering\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Jackson fined $25K for tampering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Knicks president Phil Jackson was handed a $25,000 fine by the NBA Monday for a tampering violation.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference last week, Jackson publicly expressed interest in veteran Oklahoma City guard Derek Fisher as a candidate to fill the Knicks&#8217; vacant coaching position left by Mike Woodson, who was fired in April.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher was still under contract with the Thunder and competing in the Western Conference Finals at the time.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN was the first to report the penalty, which NBA spokesman Tim Frank confirmed later on Monday. The violation of the league&#8217;s anti-tampering policy was released in a league-wide memo to each team.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher played 10 seasons under Jackson when the latter was the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers from 1999-2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Knicks president Phil Jackson was handed a $25,000 fine by the NBA Monday for a tampering violation. During a press conference last week, Jackson publicly expressed interest in veteran Oklahoma City guard Derek Fisher as a candidate to fill the Knicks&#8217; vacant coaching position left by Mike Woodson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[70,59,69],"class_list":["post-19420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-knicks","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19434,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}