Sources: Knicks’ search focused on Rambis, Blatt

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The New York Knicks’ coaching search remains focused, for now, on interim head coach Kurt Rambis and former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt, league sources told ESPN’s Marc Stein.

Team president Phil Jackson loosely discussed the Knicks’ head-coaching vacancy with Golden State Warriors assistant Luke Walton last week, but sources say that the Knicks, at this point, are not seriously considering anyone beyond Rambis or Blatt.

The Knicks have focused their coaching search on David Blatt, above, and Kurt Rambis, according to sources. David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images

Jackson and the Knicks did not reach out to ex-Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau to discuss the club’s vacancy before Thibodeau agreed to accept the Minnesota Timberwolves’ offer to become coach and team president on Wednesday, sources said.

The Knicks could yet elect to broaden their search, with no need to rush the decision since they have no first-round picks in the upcoming June draft, but …

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