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One of Phil Jackson's first deals as Knicks president was also his biggest mistake

It's tough to be a Knicks fan. This latest revelation from Phil Jackson won't make it any easier.

The Knicks president told Charley Rosen of Today's Fastbreak he passed on the chance to add current Celtics forward Jae Crowder in a huge 2014 trade centered around Tyson Chandler. Oops. He called the move his "biggest mistake."

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"One of the first deals I engineered when I came back to New York was to trade Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton to Dallas for Shane Larkin, Jose Calderon, Wayne Ellington, Samuel Dalembert, plus a second-round pick that the Mavs owed to the Celtics," Jackson said.