Shooting guard Jamal Crawford(notes) played for the New York Knicks from 2004-2009 and “could love nothing more than to rejoin the Knicks when a new collective bargaining agreement is finalized,” according to the New York Daily News. The 30-year-old Crawford will be a free agent when the NBA lockout ends.

A source tells the paper that Crawford has moved on from his last agent, Goodwin Sports Management, and is looking around for a new one.

For the Atlanta Hawks last season, Crawford averaged 14.2 points and 3.2 assists per game.

The Knicks unloaded Crawford in 2008 to the Golden State Warriors as it prepared to make salary-cap room for its attempt to sign LeBron James(notes) in the 2010 offseason.

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Source: New York Daily News

Related: Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks

Former New York Knicks All-Star guard
Mark Jackson was selected as the new coach of the Golden State
Warriors, his first coaching job at any level.

Jackson, 46, who has been part of ABC’s broadcast team for
the National Basketball Association Finals, played 17 seasons in
the NBA for seven teams and ranks third in career assists with
10,334.

“He epitomized leadership as a player in this league,”
Warriors owner Joe Lacob said in an e-mailed release. “We think
that characteristic — and many other positive traits — will
translate very well into his coaching duties with our young
team.”

Terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed by the team.

Jackson replaces Keith Smart, who wasn’t retained by the
Warriors after going 36-46 in his one season leading the club.

“I’m really elated about this opportunity and I’m looking
forward to the challenge of building the Warriors into a
perennial contender,” Jackson said in the team release.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Jackson played at St.
John’s University with former Warriors General Manager Chris Mullin before being chosen as NBA Rookie of the Year in 1987-88
with the Knicks. He was an All-Star in 1988-89.

The Warriors, who have made the postseason once since 1994,
were bought by Lacob and Peter Guber for a record $450 million
in July 2010 from Chris Cohan.

On May 20, the team announced that Jerry West, who won
seven championships as a player and front-office executive for
the Los Angeles Lakers, had joined the Warriors as a board
member.

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Rob Gloster in San Francisco at
rgloster@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Michael Sillup at msillup@bloomberg.net