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« on: December 12, 2019, 04:00:58 PM »
Steve Kerr: “So I think people recognize that New York is a basketball town, it’s a basketball city. I think most people in the league want the Knicks to be good. I know I do. I think it’s something that’s missing from the league. We need them to have success. They’re a marquee franchise. … I would like to see things get turned around there for the sake of the league and the sake of the Knicks fans because they have great fans there.”
I hate it when smart people, and Steve Kerr is really a very smart person, say dopey, gratuitous things - no one gives a rats ass how good or bad the Knicks are, certainly not the NBA, and NY might be a basketball city - but for much of the last 20 years the evidence has been to the contrary....MSG might be filled, but it's filled w corporate freeloaders and maybe a few rube tourists...
The Knicks have proven to be the most inconsequential large market franchise in the NBA, and the pressure from the press and fans (just why did "fan base" come to replace "fans", like "skill set" to "skills") has not been nearly as unrelenting as it should be....
I forget which forumite pledged "...not one thin dime [spent on Dolan and the Knicks]..." - a rallying cry that should have been long ago adopted by the entire city....
