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Phil Jackson will not be coaching the Nets. As first reported by The Post Tuesday, a league source said that Jackson is not looking to coach. The Nets had contacted Jackson in order to gauge his interest in possibly returning to the sidelines and taking over as coach after deciding not to bring back interim coach P.J. Carlesimo. New York Post

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Phil Jackson has rejected the Brooklyn Nets' overtures to take over as coach, a league source told Yahoo! Sports. Nets general manager Billy King talked with Jackson on Tuesday, and Jackson, the 11-time champion coach, reaffirmed his desire to pursue a broader front-office role over coaching in his return to the NBA. Yahoo! Sports

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Net Daily: The news out of Phil decision is they always wanted a firm no from him before they began calling others. And of course you call him first. Twitter @NetsDaily

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Tim Bontemps: Phil Jackson is not interested in returning to coaching and, thus, will not be the next coach of the Nets, a league source told The Post. Twitter @TimBontemps

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A day after firing interim head coach P.J. Carlesimo, the Brooklyn Nets did what almost everyone around the NBA expected they would do, contacting Phil Jackson and inquiring about his interest in coaching the team next season, according to a league source. The Nets will obviously wait to see if Jackson is at all willing to coach there before moving on to their list of other coaching candidates. There was no indication how long Jackson would take before responding to the inquiry. NBA.com

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Jackson's longtime agent, Todd Musburger, said last summer that the 67-year-old Jackson was looking for a chance to run a team in an executive capacity, and was almost certain not to coach again. Jackson, Musburger said, would like to hire a head coach and play the same role with that coach as his longtime assistant, Tex Winter, played for him in Chicago and Los Angeles. Jackson would also like to be involved with picking the team's personnel, Musburger said. After the Nets fired coach Avery Johnson in December, Musburger said via text that Jackson had "no interest in the Nets' job at this time." NBA.com

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Matt Dery: For those of you asking, yes... Phil Jackson is in town today. #Pistons. Twitter @deryNBA

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Three hours later, after the Nets insider's denial to NetsDaily was published, the story changed, with a new focus on the Nets' pursuit of Phil Jackson ... and a new headline. In the later edition, Isola and Bondy reported: NetsDaily

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Specifically, the insider's email to NetsDaily read, "Don't believe the Daily News story on Dunleavy. Billy never talked to him and has never played golf with him. Story is total fabrication ... he is not a candidate." NetsDaily

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Dunleavy, Jackson, Doc Rivers, Brian Shaw, Larry Brown, Jerry Sloan and maybe dozen other names have been floated in the Nets coaching search. The insider said only Jackson had been contacted and the Nets are still doing background checks only on the other candidates, but reiterated Dunleavy was never considered. NetsDaily

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Long before the Nets contacted Phil Jackson on Monday, GM Billy King GM spoke with Brooklyn product Mike Dunleavy about taking over for P.J. Carlesimo. A source familiar with the situation told the Daily News that Dunleavy has emerged as a real darkhorse in a race with higher-profile names, which isn’t a surprise considering his relationship with King. “He may be the leading candidate in Billy King’s mind,” said the source. New York Daily News

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And although a source confirmed Jackson met with the Nets on Monday and is reportedly Mikhail Prokhorov's top choice, the 11-time champion has stated he’s not interested in coaching and wants a front-office job. King could be opposed to that because it could diminish his role. New York Daily News

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The Brooklyn Nets have contacted Phil Jackson about replacing the outgoing P.J. Carlesimo, according to a source. After Jackson, the source says the list of current Nets' candidates consists of Larry Brown and Brian Shaw. Neither Nate McMillan nor brothers Jeff and Stan Van Gundy is on the list, the source said. That could change if the Nets fail to land one of their top three choices. ESPN.com

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Jackson, who has voiced interest in a Pat Riley-type role with an organization, would perhaps join the Nets as the team's president while also getting a slice of ownership. Jackson, who coached Shaw with the Los Angeles Lakers, is known to believe he has a bright coaching future ahead of him, and Shaw would be a likely coaching candidate if Jackson joined the Nets front office. ESPN.com

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Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson is scheduled to arrive in the Detroit area today and begin consulting the Pistons on their coaching search, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Free Press this morning. But the source reiterated that Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars is “running the show,” and Jackson will be here strictly to assist Dumars. Detroit Free Press

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The candidates known to have received interviews are former SuperSonics and Trail Blazers coach Nate McMillan, Phoenix Suns interim coach Lindsey Hunter and San San Antonio Spurs assistant Mike Budenholzer. The source added that, if Dumars thinks it would be productive, Jackson would participate in some of the candidate interviews this week. Detroit Free Press

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Stefan Bondy: Phil Jackson's agent on Nets interest in his client: "At this time, we have no comment." Twitter @NYDNInterNets

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King refused to rule out any candidate, other than his former coach at Duke, Mike Krzyzewski. “I don’t want the alumni base mad at me,” King joked. But one name he didn’t rule out was Phil Jackson, who has been rumored to be interested in getting involved with basketball again after taking the last two seasons off after leaving the Lakers following the 2011 season. Jackson, however, is thought to be more interested in having a front-office position with a team than going through the day-to-day grind of coaching. “Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ll call him,” King said. “I’ll reach out to a lot of people and talk. But, you know, he’s one of the best coaches sitting on the sidelines, so you’ve got to reach out.” New York Post

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Williams said he “would love” to play again for Jerry Sloan, his old coach in Utah, and when Phil Jackson’s name came up, Williams said, “Who wouldn’t want to play for Phil Jackson?” Regardless of who takes over as head coach, Williams said that after a tumultuous first season in Brooklyn, he and his teammates can take a step forward next year. “We definitely want to improve on this season,” Williams said. “With everything we had, with all the injuries we had, with all the stuff in the media going on with losing a coach, we still finished pretty good. We still finished in the fourth spot [in the East]. New York Post

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Marc Stein: Phil Jackson always the guy Prokhorov wanted. So Nets likely to chase Phil & J. Van Gundy first since coaching splash easier than roster fix Twitter @ESPNSteinLine

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