You know things are bad when the team’s President, Steve Mills, issued a statement basically telling fans “We’re getting it together, we swear. No wonder fans can’t stand James Dolan-who just so happened to get a Twitter account yesterday (June 30).Īlso worth noting, KD reportedly never even gave the Knicks a meeting. Instead, the Knicks picked up three power forwards (Taj Gibson, Bobby Portis and Julius Randle) and a shooting guard (Reggie Bullock). That said, Dolan was also never given the chance. With that move, the Nets have taken significant strides to become to only basketball team worth seeing in the city, even with Durant likely on the bench for the entirety of this upcoming season, thanks to the addition of Kyrie Irving. New York Knicks owner James Dolan may not have been comfortable giving Kevin Durant a max contract as he recovers from an Achilles rupture. Even worse is the fact that he lost out on this other-worldly talent to the Brooklyn Nets-you know, the franchise that was always supposed to be the butt of the joke in New York because of how little people cared about them.
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It’s incredible that after years of giving big money to flameouts like Andrea Bargnani, Amar’e Stoudemire and Joakim Noah, Dolan decided to take a stand against Kevin fucking Durant. And he’s not even taking the max from Brooklyn, so I think that’s spin. ownership on offering that super-max extension, according to Wojnarowski.
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In my conversations with them yesterday, they never gave any indications to KD’s camp that they WERENT going to give him the max. New York Knicks trade, free agent, and draft rumors, updated constantly by the.
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Yes, he has a torn Achilles and will be on the shelf for a while. Chris Broussard: I don’t buy this spin that the Knicks weren’t offering Kevin Durant the max.