A dentist brought Joakim Noah to the New York Knicks. All right, that may be a bit of an overstatement, but without Dr. Daniel Rudolph, Noah and Phil Jackson may have never united in basketball or life.
That’s the human element of basketball at its very finest, ladies and gentlemen.
It’s no secret that Jackson signed Noah to a four-year deal worth $72 million this past offseason. One of the more understated truths in New York, however, is just how close Jackson and Noah have become.
According to Stefan Bondy of The New York Daily News, that all started with a broken tooth.