The last time the Knicks were relevant was 1972 and when they won the lottery for Ewing. The league needs to force out Dolan and install a new owner.
They got Randle, but that doesn't make up for the fact that they didn't even toss their hat in the ring for Durant.
I could never become a Brooklyn fan due to being born and raised Queens. S. Ozone Park. And grew up rooting for the likes of Jackson/Ward/Childs Starks, Mason, Oakley, Ewing, H2O, Sprewell, LJ, Camby etc but I swear if I were born in Brooklyn I'd have to consider rooting for my birth place. Fk I kinda wish Queens had a basketball team with an owner not named Dolan.
Should have just kept K.P lol. C: Mitchell Robinson. PF: Julius Randle. SF: Kevin Knox. 2G: R.J Barrett. PG: Dennis Smith Jr. Our bench being led by the likes of Frank, Trier, Dotson and Ignis is going to absolutely suck too. So... No chance in hell we can still land K. Leonard? Do we even have a meeting with him? Lol what a clown circus show we are. Our offseason just went to complete shit.
How did he "follow", it only came out last night that Irving was going to the Nets, you seriously believe Durant just found that out to? Of course not, they both decided to go to Brooklyn and announced their decisions on back to back days, thats not "following" at all. *Technically Kyrie announced after Durant, so enough of the "following" logic.
The NBA is no longer about organizations building teams it’s about players building teams. Young NBA fans don’t even care about the team first, they watch it for the players. Whatever team the players are on us who they will rep.
Well, the Knicks are going to either look very smart or very stupid in two years, depending on what kind of player Durant looks like then. Based on history stupid seems more likely, although of course coming back from an Achilles injury is very very hard.
Very good point. Kyrie seems to be injured often and Durant will come back from an awful injury. And I hear Knicks didn't offer KD the max contract. We shall see if Knicks got it right or wrong.
Kyrie to Brooklyn has been out for weeks now. Public perception is now that kyrie chose Brooklyn and kd followed. That’s the timeline.
Kp was not staying, he demanded out and the Knicks did good in the trade. Everything crumbled after that but that was the right move.
No, it’s relatively new, starting with the decision. Before that, players made decisions in isolation and organizations built around them. Can you name any examples previous to that of star players joining together in free agency to form the core of a team? I can’t.
Passing on Durant when you are the Knicks was a mistake. There really is no way to spin it. That move you make when you are someone like the Warriors or Lakers and understandably do not want to gamble your salary space on a guy with a ruptured Achilles. When you haven't done anything in 2 decades you take that chance on a player who can bring you back.
Yes, organizations will continue to do their part. The Warriors were built by the organization, the Bucks too, as are the majority of teams because there are only so many great players available. But when those players are available you are seeing a desire for the players to join together to create the team, and bring that to the organization not the other way around. And young fans don’t care about the team first, it’s about the players so those players are then celebrated for creating the team.
The big issue for the league is that teams can only figure on keeping their best players for a few years - either on a rookie deal, obtaining in a trade a year or two before free agency, or even as free agents with the supermax advantage pretty much gone. Will the Bucks have a real chance at keeping Antetokounmpo in a couple of years? You're going to see a lot of players playing on veterans exception and veterans minimum contracts too. "Dynasties" are going to last five years max. Considering that there are maybe a dozen players in the league at this kind of level, basic math would seem to say that no more than a half-dozen teams are ever going to be genuine contenders for more than a year or two. It's hard to believe that that is good for the league.
