So, what do all who are mad at the Knicks for trading him think of this now?
KP can do one, as they say across the pond, for all I care.
Really hard to triangulate: an incompetent FO (Baker & THJ contracts, muddying Frank's waters, or Franking Muds stamp on the team - either way too much redundancy too much), an evil brother Janis who clearly outgrew Riga, is very impressed with himself, and sees himself a player, and a young unicorn who is still very immature and like his brother very impressed with himself...
Does anyone really think the FO let the KP offer percolate and stew the required time to get the best offer? On the one hand threats were made about comfort and fit, but who really thinks a player coming of an ACL would really sign a QO and take on the risk? The FO didn't have the moxie to call that bluff I guess...
Between the three of them communications must have been fraught, jumbled, and fuzzy at best.
And god knows where Dolan's hand was in all this - but it was somewhere...
A very typical Knicks CF...and in that regard nothing has changed...
From what I read and hear, the Knicks had been looking at offers for KP before the meeting so they had already assessed what they could get. Nets, and I forget what other teams made offers, and we offered him to N.O. who said nope.
Dallas' one was probably the best for what they thought they should do if they traded him. When he approached them with the meeting and told them what's up they must have thought if this comes out in the media (i.e. AD's situation) then his value would be even less, so they took the offer.
Had they sat on it or shopped him elsewhere, it might have led to even worse offers, especially if the story came out...which it did anyway that morning, about the meeting between he and the FO. His value could have diminished had it been clear to other teams he wanted out.
Who knows, but I can see why they did it when they did rather than wait.
The idea that the FO is incompetent is one of the assumptions preventing many Knicks fans from understanding the dynamics of this trade and its significance.
The FO has probably had a number of potential Porzingis buyers in their back pocket since this past summer. They were also plenty aware of and had a belly full of the Porzingis brothers complaints and -cough- recommendations. THE FO didn't particularly need any more excuse to cut this idiot out.
The first phone call they probably made may have been to New Orleans to see if they could acquire AD and by all reports NO said, "No thanks." What went unreported is what else NO might have said.
Because NO might have added, "Come back to us with a couple of draft picks and we can get serious."
And, as they say, "the plot thickens".
In the meantime, AD is being roasted by pundits and professionals for having been had [by LA and their minions].
AND..., the Lakers are melting down in turmoil as we post. None of that can be appetizing to AD on second and third thought.
So forget the mega-ocean of cash the Knicks have to spend this summer. In the coming few days the Knicks can offer NO a couple of unprotected first round picks for AD, and expiring contract or two, and maybe a young player or two. And that offer for AD doesn't even make a dent in the remaining flexibility to could a blue chip FA or two.
And if not AD, how about Gasol? or...
Good time to be a Knicks fan.
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