On Wednesday, after word leaked that Knicks president Phil Jackson had met with ex-Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt about the Knicks’ head-coaching vacancy earlier this week, a handful of questions emerged as to what it all meant.

For starters: What are we to make of the candidacy of Kurt Rambis, the Knicks’ current interim coach? How big a role will general manager Steve Mills, a college teammate of Blatt’s at Princeton in the 1970s, play in the hiring process? And most important, would Jackson—who has been crystal clear...