Former ESPN analyst Mark Jackson will not broadcast Knicks games for MSG Network after the team banned him from the team plane, hotel or bus, The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand reports.
“We weren’t able to work something out this season,” an MSG Network spokesman told Marchand.
Jackson was laid off from ESPN in the summer, and was set to help fill in during Knicks road games as the color commentator when Walt “Clyde” Frazier had the night off. However, Knicks president Leon Rose shut that down over an old feud between Jackson and Knicks assistant coach Darren Erman.
When Jackson was the head coach of the Warriors in 2014, Erman was an assistant on his staff who Jackson fired over a “violation of company policy.” ESPN later reported that Erman secretly recorded conversations of meetings involving coaches, both coaches’ only meetings and meetings between coaches and players.
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Golden State fired Jackson later that year, as Jackson would re-join ESPN on their top NBA broadcast team. The former point guard remained there until this season, when the network opted to go with Doc Rivers and Doris Burke with Mike Breen moving forward.
Erman has been a Knicks assistant coach since 2020, when New York hired Tom Thibodeau as their head coach. Instead of Jackson, MSG analyst Wally Szczerbiak will fill in for Frazier on his nights off.
