Knicks Morning News (2025.06.11)

Anyway, I didn’t post that as a gotcha as much as to point out that at the time of the trade, the assumption here (including hubert) was that iHart was gone.

Good bc it wasn’t a gotcha. You’re showing quotes out of context and omitting relevant ones to… I don’t know what you’re trying to do… prove that I was excited to acquire Mikal Bridges? I’m guilty. I was very excited about the Nova Knicks. Largely bc I thought it meant we were going to play small ball lineups with Julius Randle and Jalen Brunson surrounded by three shooters.

Obviously that never came to pass but Leon fucked up whether I was excited or not. This thing you do where you contend that a mistake isn’t a mistake if the someone on the blog liked it doesn’t make a lick of sense.

The announcement that Hartenstein was likely moving on came right after the Bridges trade announcement. So 100% of all comments about going all in before the Bridges trade were made when it was possible (in fact we thought it was likely) that Hartenstein was coming back.

When they fired Thibs so quickly after the player meetings, I thought for sure they had a specific coach in mind.

I think we all assumed they had a plan. But that was when we thought Leon made the decision. It looks increasingly likely that Mad Dog (and E, of course) knew what they were talking about.

One side note of the whole thing is that Ian Begley loses a lot of credibility for insisting that Dolan was merely a spectator. I think someone here (Frank, maybe?) posited that Begley’s source may be Dolan himself. In hindsight, Begley looks like he was printing propaganda.

Any thoughts on Taylor Jenkins?

I think Dolan wants sex appeal and Taylor Jenkins doesn’t qualify.

I think Memphis insisted Jenkins work w an offensive coordinator so that’s not a good sign.

I wouldn’t call myself pro-Monty Williams but I recall being impressed with his work in Phoenix and can’t imagine Jason Kidd is so much better to be worth the baggage and the compensation.

I think people are overreacting about is the fact that we don’t have someone immediately hired to replace thibs.

No one expected us to have someone hired immediately. But we haven’t even had formal conversations yet.

This suggests either that Kidd is the real target and we plan to overpay Dallas for the privilege of hiring him or that we have no idea what to do.

If we simply had a list of three candidates who have interviews scheduled that would be a relief.

I actually think the Stevens idea is very good. I doubt the Celtics would allow it, though

Am I the only one who doesn’t hate the Durant idea? I would never plan it out this way but given the corner Leon has painted himself into it’s not the worst idea.

People here saying KAT but there’s no way it would be him. The whole point would be to assemble Jalen, KAT, and Durant.

OG is the guy you’d want to keep but he’d probably have to go out to match salary. I’d rather keep Mitch but we’ll choose Hart.

So you have the big three plus Bridges plus any random shooter on the vet min, with Deuce & Hart off the bench. Hell you might as well start Deuce since you’re giving up on defense anyway.

Again, not my preferred cup of tea, but how does anyone stop that?

Durant is 36. Next year will be his age 37 season.

I strongly suspect he will outperform OG Anunoby by a very wide margin for the next two seasons, maybe even the next three.

to make og and hart for kd work the suns would need to get below the second apron because if the got both guys they’d be getting overage and can’t aggregate anyone else out to meet the 100 pct match rule, even to a third team. technically there’s a world in which they could do this (get under the second) once they shed micic and martin but it would require a beal buyout.

I was thinking Suns get OG, third team gets Hart, third team sends Suns someone who combined with OG makes less than KD.

But I doubt we’d trade Hart anyway. Leon’s always wanted to trade Mitch.

It would be OG & Mitch if we do it.

It’s a shame we can’t do it with Bridges bc OG complements the other three so well and Bridges wants to play in the mid range space KD dominates so that doesn’t help

If we got Durant I wouldn’t want Hart or Bridges but I don’t think we can build a trade around them. We’d probably have to give up OG & Mitch, and those are the last two guys I’d want to trade if we were getting Durant.

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