for the love of god isiah, make this happen....

hil Jackson has built his Hall of Fame career around triangles, so it is perhaps appropriate that he is now the apex of one that stretches from Los Angeles to New York to wherever he may be at the moment.

The Knicks want Jackson to come back to his original N.B.A. home in Manhattan. The Lakers want Jackson to return to the office he vacated 10 months ago in El Segundo, Calif.

Other N.B.A. teams in between will probably vie for Jackson's services, but the competition is shaping up as a race between teams from the league's two biggest media markets.