I feel the same way! That makes me a hypocrite! I don’t cop out behind what made me a Knicks fan in the first place. It’s a choice that I make because I don’t really give a fuck who owns the team, because if I really, truly did, I could make the choice to give it up so I don’t continue to be part of the machine that lines some reprehensible asshole’s pockets. As to holding more than one thought in your head, seems like there’s a limit when it comes to this sort of hypocrisy re: the products we choose to consume of our own free will.

The dumb, harmful shit that Dolan spouts today doesn’t bother me any more than it ever did…or ever will. But being that I’m on my parade that I’ve longed for since I was a little kid, and that he has had a direct hand in providing me (and millions of other diehards) with this experience, it probably bothers me a little less today. I’ll worry about tomorrow tomorrow.

I am able to hold more than one thought in my head at a time: I like the Knicks, and James Dolan can eat a giant bag of dicks.

I contain multitudes.

The uproar here is that he said he doesn’t want the team to go into the 2nd apron.

That’s the main part of it, yes. Which directly contradicts your argument that “it sounds like he wants to win.” If you want to win, you keep the team together that…just won. That’s a pretty solid recipe. But you can’t do that if you don’t pay them, which he just said he wouldn’t do, despite it only costing him money.

Another part of it is the timing. Now? You say that now? Wait a freaking week at least. But no, the narcissist clock means you do it when it works for you, which is when everyone is celebrating your team and you need to put yourself in the center of it.

The last part is, for many of us, I suspect, the “we accepted an invitation to the White House” comment. Again, an unsolicited bummer at the worst possible time. He heard the boos; he knows many fans hate the Orange Man, but he said it anyway because, again, it’s all about him.

Really, who gives a fuck that a proud, defiant, much-maligned asshole of an owner is giving two middle fingers to his critics in the heat of one of the most glorious moments in NYC sports history?

Everyone he’s giving the finger to. Not hard to parse.

just out of curiosity though, searching locations along the route where it may be possible to stay below the 30th floor and get out on a rooftop or balcony to watch…gotta imagine there are a few hundred thousand people doing the same…

ai is sort of useful for that kind of stuff…

okay guys, how about we win this one for me…

he just seems too dim to be anything but fairly transparent whenever he speaks…

not sure how the players may truly feel about him…I imagine it varies amongst them…

ha, I can see ol’ mitch and jimmy d pulling up to the white house in his monster truck – just the two of them…

ummmm, an invite to where? Oops sorry, already got plans to go to the obama center that day…

Please point me to the post where I called him a good owner.

“Any sane owner would keep his mouth shut and revel in the moment, but not Jim! Gotta be the story, because this championship is about his leadership.”

Sorry, that’s not what I heard. In fact, he gave almost all of the credit (except for hiring him, which most people here panned at the time and some continuously ever since, even up to the final horn in game 5) to Leon. The uproar here is that he said he doesn’t want the team to go into the 2nd apron. Given the penalties for doing so, that’s actually quite a “sane” position (shared by the vast majority of owners), whether you agree with it or not. Is it the “best” choice? That’s certainly debatable. But it is far from insane.

“If the douchebag isn’t willing to spend to keep the team together, then fuck him forever.”

Well as your favorite poster E pointed out, it is not uncommon at all for management to “not” keep the team together after a championship. It’s actually kind of weird that you think he owes it to you or anyone else.

There isn’t anything insane at all in what he said. Narcissistic? Sure. Unnecessary in the moment? Whatever. Yadayada.

But one thing seems pretty clear to me. Whatever he says or does, it sounds to me like he wants to win, both now and in the future. And he’s finally got a good POBO to run things. Really, who gives a fuck that a proud, defiant, much-maligned asshole of an owner is giving two middle fingers to his critics in the heat of one of the most glorious moments in NYC sports history? Frankly, as one of his most willing “stooges” (I admit to consuming the fuck out of his product, literally can’t get enough!), I find the hypocrisy kind of comical!

the product does the talking

That’s just the point: he won’t let it. Because this is about him. As always for every narcissist.

There are s lot of unhinged takes on here but Guitar Jimmy being a good owner is up there. I’ll give it to him that he canned Thibs, which needed to happen, but from Anucha Brown-Sanders on, it’s been mostly a shit show, a lot of it directly his shit. Any sane owner would keep his mouth shut and revel in the moment, but not Jim! Gotta be the story, because this championship is about his leadership.

If the douchebag isn’t willing to spend to keep the team together, then fuck him forever.

Bullshit. The Knicks are not “society.” They are a specific product that can easily be boycotted without an iota of removal from society. Stop sugarcoating your own hypocricy.