I just want to extend my condolences about your ownership. You and Spike Lee deserve better.Dunno, if they can really sign Durant and Kyrie, I'm excited to see the kids develop around them. Robinson, Durant, Knox, Barrett, Kyrie, and Smith off the bench, sign me up.
That was the father, not the son.Remember when Dolan tried to buy the Red Sox, promising to outspend the Yankees' payroll?
Which they just used a lot of to sign the greatest jazz composer of all time, Duke Ellington!!!!They still have around $13m in FA money to fill out their roster.
That was Carmelo v. the Celtics, right? Uggggh.The Knicks haven't been a consistently great franchise in general, but these past 20 years have been unlike anything you could have expected. One playoff series win in 20 years. ONE! Many wasted seasons. Bad ownership. Scandals. It's a joke, Dolan is possibly the worst owner in sports.
They have refused to "rebuild" for 20 years. Meantime the Celtics have been awful then rebuilt. The Lakers awful, then rebuilt. But they refuse to just go full rebuild. Hell, 2 17 win seasons and they still wont rebuild.The Knicks haven't been a consistently great franchise in general, but these past 20 years have been unlike anything you could have expected. One playoff series win in 20 years. ONE! Many wasted seasons. Bad ownership. Scandals. It's a joke, Dolan is possibly the worst owner in sports.
Or, as others have already suggested, if you really feel the need to use up cap space why not seek out deals where you can be the third team in a deal where other teams are looking to unload contracts for matching purposes, etc. - basically what Dallas did (or might be doing) in connection with the Butler-to-Miami deal. At least then you can accumulate some assets in the form of either late-round/protected future picks or players who could be spun off down the road in connection with other, more important deals.The Randle signing was good, he's a really good offensive player, but everything since then is a disaster. Why spend so much on mediocre guys? No one is paying to see Ellington and Payton. Just keep the cap space open and they could have made a deal in season. Now they're hands are tied with players that nobody wants. Jason C is lost, even if they are short deals they were deals they didn't have to make. Let the kids play and tank. Appropriate that they filled their cap up with bad players on Bobby Bonilla Day, they really are the Mets.
100 times this. The Clippers just got a pick for taking on Moe Harkless. Memphis got a pick for taking on one year of Iggy. Meanwhile, the Knicks are putting together a bunch of meh in hopes of dumping them all next year to open cap room to attract an unidentified max player. Terrible work by the Knicks.Or, as others have already suggested, if you really feel the need to use up cap space why not seek out deals where you can be the third team in a deal where other teams are looking to unload contracts for matching purposes, etc. - basically what Dallas did (or might be doing) in connection with the Butler-to-Miami deal. At least then you can accumulate some assets in the form of either late-round/protected future picks or players who could be spun off down the road in connection with other, more important deals.
Absolutely and well said. Just collecting the vig on deals like this can add assets to a war chest. But nope, gotta keep up appearances with Bullock, Ellington and Payton. The whole league is laughing at them.Or, as others have already suggested, if you really feel the need to use up cap space why not seek out deals where you can be the third team in a deal where other teams are looking to unload contracts for matching purposes, etc. - basically what Dallas did (or might be doing) in connection with the Butler-to-Miami deal. At least then you can accumulate some assets in the form of either late-round/protected future picks or players who could be spun off down the road in connection with other, more important deals.
RJ Barrett, who came into Tuesday's game on a 7-of-33 shooting slump in Vegas, hit 6-of-14 shots and a 3-pointer for 17 points, 10 rebounds, six assists, three blocks and just one turnover in 28 minutes.
The shooting still wasn't really there, but at least Knicks fans have a stat line they can get behind from their prized rookie. The Knicks are 0-3 in Vegas and tensions are running high, as the entire team, sans, Summer League invitee Tyler Cavanaugh, went straight to the locker room after the game instead of shaking hands with the Raptors, who were all lined up at half court, waiting to shake hands.
We're likely a ways away from a Donald T. Sterling situation but this would be another bulletpoint for the memo.Adam Silver tried and failed to pitch a compromise to Dolan and broker a meeting between the Knicks owner and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer.
Barrett is going to be that person (hopefully) but its too much to ask at the start of his career. My measure of the Knicks is how they look after they get everyone back from injury and after Barrett gets some seasoning.A bad loss tonight as there was no cohesiveness or chemistry whatsoever. What dooms this team is that they fall behind by double digits early in games. That has to change. Also, hopefully someone steps up and becomes a leader of this team. There's no leader, there's no one to calm them down or for the team to depend on.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28055586/knicks-president-steve-mills-says-front-office-not-happy-10-games-season"I think the lack of consistency, that for the most part we've seen it, but you see sporadic efforts, too," Perry said. "That's what we talked about as we sat during this game and one of the reasons we wanted to come out and address you guys. Because we got to be consistent in all areas of the game, starting with the effort."
I love Barrett from what I've seen, but I'm not super-optimistic for the Knicks. They hit on Porzingis too and, by all accounts, he was going to sign the qualifying offer rather than take their money. Such a tire-fire; I don't even feel schadenfreude.Barrett is going to be that person (hopefully) but its too much to ask at the start of his career. My measure of the Knicks is how they look after they get everyone back from injury and after Barrett gets some seasoning.
Apparently Mills and Perry held the press conference because Dolan ordered them to:Knicks think the problem is not showing consistent effort on the court, not, you know, horrible roster construction:
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28055586/knicks-president-steve-mills-says-front-office-not-happy-10-games-season
https://theathletic.com/1367854/2019/11/11/isola-the-knicks-are-in-full-blown-crisis-mode-again-mills-perry-and-fizdale-should-consider-themselves-warned/What Mills didn’t say is that he and Dolan spoke at length during halftime of the blowout loss and, according to one source, Dolan told Mills he was “disappointed” with the team’s 2-8 start. The same source said that Dolan ordered his top basketball decision-makers to address the media after the game, which is highly unusual but interesting nonetheless.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28058946/sources-knicks-president-angling-david-fizdale-firingEven before a startling news conference in the wake of a blowout loss to Cleveland on Sunday, New York Knicks president Steve Mills had started to lay the internal groundwork for the eventual dismissal of coach David Fizdale, league sources told ESPN.
Mills is selling owner James Dolan on a roster constructed to be highly competitive in the Eastern Conference, leaving Fizdale vulnerable to an ouster only weeks into the second season of a four-year contract that league sources say is worth $22 million.
Coaches seemed to feel most put-upon. Each one, multiple people said, had to meet with McKinsey & Company representatives at one point during the season. They wanted the coaches to write notes and turn them in. Their presence caused discomfort.
“The whole thing is fucked up,” the former staffer said, and later added: “It was bad. It was fucking crazy shit. It was unique.”
Hopla said every workout he put a player through was followed by rigid note-taking. He was asked to assess the workout based on a stoplight system and fill out a piece of paper by circling red, yellow or green to describe how the workout had gone and the player’s attitude, with room for a write-in comment. It was just an example of what he thought was an overload of paperwork.
Each day, he said, he had to write reports about what he intended to do with a player. An injury report from the team trainer later in the day could scuttle those plans.
At one point during the season, Hopla remembers taking a photo of his hotel room on the road because he couldn’t see the floor underneath the stoplight sheets and the daily reports. He needed two rooms, he joked — one for him and one for the reports.
“It was crazy,” he said. “If we would’ve took all the time writing reports when we could’ve worked the guys out — we missed the playoffs by like one game that year. It had nothing to do with basketball. It was filling out form after form. I wrote a book and I never wrote as much as I did with the New York Knicks.”
https://theathletic.com/1384231/2019/11/25/it-was-crazy-how-a-famous-consulting-firm-contributed-to-the-chaos-of-the-2013-14-knicks/He remembers one scene before a game when a McKinsey consultant was sitting courtside, typing, when a basketball ricocheted off the rim and hit his computer. The consultant asked for a heads up.
The basketball court’s no place for a computer, Hopla remembers Amar’e Stoudemire saying.
“There would be a person out on the sideline, whether it’s a game or practice or walking through something, always on the computer, off to the side,” Aldrich said. “It doesn’t make me feel comfortable but in the sense that, ‘Oh, these people are always watching me.’ We’re used to people watching, but on the day-to-day there’s very few people around. There’s players, coaches, trainers and a handful of other people that you’re used to seeing every day. It always was curious to me how you have somebody who was very, very smart, who was very good at what they were doing but as a player’s standpoint never played sports. I guess I hate to stereotype that but looking at the individuals that were on the sidelines, it wasn’t a 6-5 guy who, oh he played football, he played basketball.”
They really showed them.In Monday’s Zach-Woj trade season podcast, Woj threw out the news that the reason that the Knicks went after Morris was that it was in retaliation for the Spurs “tampering” with Kristaps Porzingis. I had not heard that previously and it makes sense because that move was a bit of a head scratcher.
Indeed.They really showed them.