After Derrick Rose disappeared, Phil Jackson was content to let others speak for the organization he’s getting $12 million to lead. (Brad Penner/USA TODAY Sports)There was plenty of talk about Derrick Rose Tuesday, with the New York Knicks’ starting point guard reappearing at the team’s practice facility in the New York suburbs after skipping Monday’s game at Madison Square Garden without saying a word to anyone. There was considerably less talk about another disappearing act: that of team president Phil Jackson. [The disappearance of Derrick Rose heaps more questions on struggling Knicks]It is this absence, and this silence, that epitomizes the utter state of disarray surrounding the Knicks at the moment. And Jackson, the $12 million man, can’t be bothered to speak on behalf of the franchise he’s supposed to be leading.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2017 18:50 UTC