Donovan Mitchell feels like fool’s gold to me in terms of his projections as a go-to kind of player. He’s a two way Eric Gordon, and that’s what I thought he would be coming out of Louisville

I don’t think Donovan Mitchell is comparable to Eric Gordon. He’s a much more physical, explosive player, and unless he stops developing at age 22, he will be an absolute stud. Gordon is a great sixth man when he is healthy, but a very flawed defensive player and very injury-prone, and plays below the rim.

Aah, what could have been…

I like the idea at first but it doesn’t seem realistic and i don’t think mgmt would ever punt on the next two seasons by taking deng.

Johnny must be puking in his grave.

I shit you not, JD and the fucking Straight Shot are the musical guest on the Tonight Show tonight! Fuck the heck?

As far as the Knicks go, I think we need to do something bold like go get Brandon Ingram from the Lakers for the price of absorbing Luol Deng’s contract (either into the void Kanter leaves behind or in a deal straight up for Kanter’s expiring contract). Nobody is signing in New York, so we have to build through trades and the draft. If LAL wants to land PG and LeBron, they won’t have any PT for all of Ingram, Kuzma, PG, and LeBron. Ingram is closer to his extension, so I could see the Lakers trading him to get more cap space to either use this summer to retain a guy like IT or Brook Lopez. Taking on Deng (and not stretch-waiving Noah) punts our cap space down a year to 2020, and at that point all of Noah, Deng, Thomas, and Lee would be coming off the books. We’d have Brandon Ingram, Kristaps Porzingis, Tim Hardaway, Frank Ntilikina, and three more first round picks to build around that year. I’d be pretty excited about a team with Trae Young, Frank Ntilikina, RJ Barrett, Brandon Ingram, Kristaps Porzingis, and whoever is available for us in the 2020 draft. It would have made the losing worth it.

I know it makes sense to tank next year, but the idea of going into next season rooting for the Knicks to lose every game starting with opening night is pretty fucking depressing

This all could have been avoided if the Knicks hadn’t traded all their draft picks for scrubs, traded away or failed to re-sign literally ALL of their draftees since Charlie Ward, signed mediocre-to-awful players to outrageous contracts and hired the least-competent front office and coaching staffs that professional basketball has to offer.

This is really no different than any year: Knicks’ season fucked, capped out next year, punt the ball, hope it bounces right, knowing it’ll never bounce right.

Teams like Houston, Toronto and Boston are exceptionally well-run and still need a lot of luck to even advance past the conference semis every year. The Knicks will never be good so long as James Dolan calls the shots. Never.

I get that, I really do, but they’ve been awful for years without a purpose, so why not be awful with one for a change?