Adam Silver Says He Will Not Get Involved In Fixing The Knicks Because It's Not His Job
NYDN- The Knicks are in the midst of their worst stretch in franchise history: five consecutive years and counting with at least 50 losses. When the Garden was at a different (and recent) low point, then-NBA commissioner David Stern reportedly lobbied James Dolan to strip Isiah Thomas of his responsibilities and hire Donnie Walsh as team president. Walsh’s reign was encouraging before his premature departure. But don’t expect Adam Silver, who reportedly had a role in the Sixers hiring Bryan Colangelo, to interfere with the Knicks this time.
“I wouldn’t. It’s not my role,” Silver said Thursday on WFAN. “Of course, I work for 30 teams. And the 29 other teams want to beat that team. That’s not to say me getting involved (would be good) and that I’m in any better position to know what to do. We set the rules. And then we try to have a level playing field for the teams to compete.”
Talk that shit, commish! Talk that shit! I imagine there are Knicks fans losing their minds that the NBA is just letting another Knicks season go to waste under the watch of James Dolan. However, the commissioner can help if you want get rid of say a racist dickhead owner with evidence that supports he may be a racist. Getting rid of an old fashioned meddling dickhead owner is unfortunately out of the league's hands as long as that team keeps printing it's own money, which last I checked, the Knicks still are doing an absolutely preposterous rate despite sucking forever.
One thing I've learned over the years is that it's not the commissioner's job to save a team from shitty ownership. It's Steve Cohen's. And if Cohen doesn't have any interest in saving your team from a bumbling fool, then it's up to some other billionaire to buy the team in order act like Daddy Longdick to all the other billionaires because you not only own one of the biggest sports franchises in the world but you are a God to millions of New Yorkers. I know David Stern once jumped in and forced the Knicks to hire an actual competent exec in Donnie Walsh. But that lasted all of 3 years before Walsh decided he no longer wanted to work for Kazoo Jimmy, followed by the Knicks peaking with a 2nd round playoff exit before being banished back to a laughingstock of the league. Time will continue to be a flat circle as long as the top of the org chart at MSG stays the same.
So where do we go from here, Knicks fans? The same place we always go, which is take turns screaming about how the Knicks coach, general manager, or team president need to be fired and how the next group in charge will definitely win with an unlimited budget as well as a legitimately great arena in the biggest market in the country. It shouldn't be hard to find a way to build a consistent winner with those massive advantages, right?
TL;DR - The only person that can save us from this chode is sadly the chode himself if he ever decides to actually sell the Knicks.
For more talk about the Knicks as we enter yet another winter of basketball discontent before winter even officially begins, check out this week's Knicks Therapy Session on Reags' podcast Fundamentally Sound.
