Knicks Morning News (2026.06.19)

I would love to know what people here think about what Leon and Brock think about going into the 2nd apron.

I think they’ve had conversations with Dolan about it and expressed that there are significant basketball reasons not to do it — and that’s why Dolan expectorated out his “opinion” that it was “suicidal,” which takes it further than Leon/Brock would have said.

But Dolan is motivated more by not cutting a check for the tax, which is why he moved on quickly from his poorly-understood “basketball” reasons and just got right to the real point.

Which leaves the question of how the topic came up in the first place; the most likely possibility is that Dolan told L/B, “we can’t go into the second apron,” and L/B then said something like, “No biggie, boss; it has a lot of basketball penalties anyway.”

Putting aside Dolan and L/B, the basketball penalties are in fact quite significant, much as they’ve been pooh-poohed in some segments of the Knicks’ shadow government around here. But YMMV on that one.

They were digging quarters out from under the couch cushions last year to stay under the SA and we all thought that was for basketball reasons, but it now looks very much like it was to comply with the owner’s edict.