The New York Knicks: An endless misery

New York Knicks fans, you didn’t get KD, or Kyrie, or Kemba, or Kawhi. You got Julius Randle and a bunch of role players. James Dolan PLEASE SELL THE TEAM, if it is not clear now I don’t know if you’ll ever get it. You are an awful owner, you are the biggest laughing stock in the NBA (and if it weren’t for Robert Sarver’s PR team you might be tied for last instead of in the lead). You cannot trade away your biggest asset to have cap space and then sign a bunch of guys you clearly want off the team in 2 years. This is idiotic, 8 year olds know better.

For one thing, one of the worst move to me is that they weren’t willing to offer Kevin Durant the max. So let me get this right, the Knicks traded away their most valuable player so they could have space for max guys and spend money in free agency and then they didn’t offer the best player in free agency a full max. It’s almost like getting car insurance, getting into an accident and then spending the insurance money on a moped.

Now I understand why they were not willing to spend first tier money on guys like Tobias Harris and Jimmy Butler. You do not want to waste cap space just because you have it, in a salary cap league, spending frivolously is the absolute worst thing you can do. I like the Randle signing, but it just doesn’t make any sense that all of their free agents are on two year deals. I understand what they’re trying to do, go after big free agents in 2021. But didn’t we just learn that no top-tier players do not want to play for the Knicks? We just learned that the plan of having max salary slots and garbage doesn’t get you free agents. I do not understand why they’re trying to do the same thing again. KNICKS PLEASE STOPPPPPPPP.

The Knicks game plan should be to make logical moves, continue to build around their young core and get as much talent as possible. Right now the smart move would be to take on bad contracts along with acquiring draft picks. If they acquire enough draft capital they won’t have to wait until free agency, they can just trade the picks for talented players or draft them. You know why that plan sounds familiar, it’s because the Nets did exactly that. They got talent and built a young roster and made smart, shrewd moves while acquiring as much talent as they possibly could.

Finally, what the Knicks should do now, whenever they make any decision, is to make a clear decision and do the complete opposite. If they don’t want to offer KD the max, offer him the max and if they don’t want to meet with Kawhi to focus on other free agents, ignore every other free agent and pursue Kawhi. On a more serious note, the Knicks aren’t doing anything that horrible and if they were a team with a boring owner and were in the middle of Kansas people would say they’re doing okay. But when you are in New York, have a joke of an owner and make promises you can’t deliver on it leads to heavy, deserved criticism.