[zaga_fan]

If this is true, i would have turned him away also.
Even if it meant a championship, which wasnt guaranteed simply by hiring the great zen master, that was just to much.
I would have made him walk as well.

It was on ESPN last night that those requests were never mentioned...
so I have no idea where that information would have came from - his agent addressed it in a statement.

However, Phil was told that he had until Monday to give them an answer and he was woken up at 12:01 on Monday morning by a phone call from Mitch telling him that D'antoni had accepted an offer for the job.