{"id":12062,"date":"2025-07-15T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12062\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:38:03","slug":"why-darvin-ham-is-not-a-knicks-option-as-search-for-top-assistant-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12062\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Darvin Ham is not a Knicks option as search for top assistant lingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Knicks\u2019 pursuit of an associate head coach remains ongoing and has hit some road blocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During this process, they expressed interest in Darvin Ham, the former head coach of the Lakers. But it was communicated to Ham through his current team, the Bucks, that he couldn\u2019t leave for the Knicks because it\u2019d be a lateral move, The Post has learned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just the way it\u2019s done,\u201d a person involved with the situation said. \u201cStandard procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A formal interview request for Ham wasn\u2019t lodged by the Knicks, a source said. However, the Knicks did send requests for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/09\/sports\/james-borrego-staying-with-pelicans-in-blow-to-knicks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Borrego of the Pelicans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/13\/sports\/knicks-denied-by-mavericks-again-as-jay-triano-request-gets-shut-down\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Triano of the Mavericks<\/a> that were rejected.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Knicks\u2019 pursuit of an associate head coach remains ongoing and has hit some road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[186,6043,360,355,361,99,358],"class_list":["post-12062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-exclusive","tag-mike-brown","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}