I doubt he finishes this year as a Laker.

It seems hard to believe that that Jordan offer would have actually been approved by the league. $12 million in salary and $13 million to be the spokesperson of their hotel chain? Come on.

But yes, in general, the Knicks have whiffed a lot in free agency. However, Dolan also allowed them to be capped out for, what, 13 years between 1997 and 2009? Then they were capped out for years until 2015. So they didn’t have a whole lot of opportunities.

Very disingenuous example. Jordan signed for 100% of the salary cap. O’Neal played the same position as Patrick Ewing. And Reggie Miller was mad that we didn’t pursue him, opting for the younger Allan Houston instead.

I don’t think it’s disingenous. In 1996 Jordan and Miller both used the “Allure of the Garden” against their current teams to jack up their signing price. That’s all that the Allure of the Garden has ever been good for.

(And in the case of Jordan, the offer from NY was for $25,000,000 which was almost 100% of the cap too)

“The Bulls had one hour, maybe the rest of the day, to beat a $25 million offer from the Knicks, or Michael Jordan was going to sign with New York.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-08-13-9708140002-story.html

And, it’s not like it was just 1996. Do you remember 2001, aka “The Summer of CWeb”?

Or 2000, when Brian Grant was wined and dined on Dolan’s yacht?

Or 2015, when the Allure of the Bradley Center was more enticing to top target Greg Monroe?

Donnie Walsh nailed this – it’s just not a thing that has ever seemed to exist outside of softball media questions.

The Donnie Walsh example is really unfair one considering that he anted up for a FA class whose top 3 candidates in Lebron, Wade and Bosh had already conspired to play together for Miami. Plus there is the fact that Donnie really didn’t nail that pitch did he? His FA meeting with Lebron was a publicized mess of legendary proportions.

He posted a 4.8 BPM (4th on team) and .171 WS/48 (3rd on team) in the playoffs on 400+ minutes (5th on team).

He had put up a 0.2 BPM during the regular season and played poorly in the 2016-17 playoffs, his BPM held up by a very strong defensive performance by his team as a whole. I’m not about to call him a main contributor because he had an unsustainable .610 TS% over a small sample. I’m merely saying that he’s not all that important to them, overall. And he’s not getting any younger.

brandon ingram, josh hart, kyle kuzma, oh yeah, and they got lonzo ball (who thankfully has straightened his shot a bit – still looks bad)…

I’m gonna start getting behind this KD to the knicks hype…

I’m really interested to see what fiz can do over a season…seems like a pretty charismatic personality…

although horny seemed to always look good the first month or so…

I’m definitely starting the Lillard to the Knicks campaign today.