As if Yankees-Red Sox and Darrelle Revis signing with the Patriots isn’t enough fuel for the New York-Boston feud, the Celtics president added a little gasoline to the smoldering sentiments.
Celtics President Rich Gotham, speaking Monday at the SXSW festival, said the Knicks potentially hiring Phil Jackson for a team president job will just give New Englanders more cause “to not like the Knicks.” As if they needed another reason.
“It’ll just give us one more reason to not like the Knicks. In Boston, we like to have good reasons to not like the New York teams, particularly the Knicks, if you’re the Celtics,” Gotham told HuffPost Live.
“Phil, he’s the guy who is the challenger to Red Auerbach’s record for most titles won as a coach, so bring it on. Give us a little more fuel for the rivalry. I don’t want to say anything about the people that are there [with the Knicks] now, but having a guy like Phil around, it’s all good fun for us because he’s one of our nemeses.”