Carmelo Anthony blasts Phil Jackson over saying he “doomed” the Knicks in his new book

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00:00Carmelo Anthony blasts Phil Jackson over saying he doomed the Knicks in his new book.

00:05Carmelo Anthony fired back at Phil Jackson's book on his 7pm in Brooklyn podcast.

00:11Calling out fake zen energy, he said,

00:13I sat in your office with candles lit and you don't coach sorry teams.

00:18The clip surpassed 430,000 views and nearly 3,000 likes in 24 hours,

00:24reigniting a polarizing player-executive feud.

00:26Phil Jackson arrived in 2014 to fix the Knicks.

00:30By 2017, his 80-166 record told the story.

00:35He said Melo refused to evolve, but Anthony replied,

00:39We tried that triangle crap.

00:41It wasn't about the system.

00:42It was about the pieces.

00:43And you can't force Derrick Rose and Joachim Noah into that.

00:47Anthony blasted Jackson's tell-all timing.

00:50He's still trying to sell books off that, he said.

00:53If you really wanted to teach, you'd come down to the court.

00:56Under Jackson, New York traded J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert,

01:00drafted Frank Antilakina over Donovan Mitchell,

01:03and ran a dated offense while Melo took the heat.

01:06Carmelo's rebuttal isn't just about X's and O's, it's about respect.

01:10Against the zen master aura, he argued,

01:13greatness must be coached.

01:14You don't coach sorry teams.

01:16And called out leadership without accountability,

01:18and a player-versus-executive double standard.

01:21Onyx, reactions split.

01:23He ain't lying.

01:24Look what happened when Phil didn't have Jordan or Kobe.

01:27He folded just like Belichick.

01:29Wrote one supporter.

01:30Defenders replied,

01:31Phil Jackson is one of the greatest winners in sports history.

01:35Melo's attitude is why he never won.

01:37Still, many Knicks fans sided with Melo calling him a scapegoat and saying,

01:41Phil broke up a playoff team and blamed Melo.

01:44Melo's Knicks years mixed a 62-point game and a 2013 scoring title with dysfunction.

01:50Both men are retired,

01:52and their feud mirrors player agency versus executive control.

01:56You don't get to light candles, quote Buda, and then blame the players, he said.

02:00If you can't teach the triangle to the team you built, that's on you.

02:03You don't get to light candles, you don't get to light candles, you don't get to light candles.