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13 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2026.06.26)”
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We know that Dolan is far more spiteful than frugal. On that note, I wonder how much of Dolan insisting on staying below the second apron is out of spite, i.e. to keep the tax bill down because the money would go to the rest of the teams. He hates the other owners and the commissioner and vice versa. He hates that his media empire has been impacted by Silver’s deals with Prime, Peacock, etc. and ranted about it.
I also wonder if he is more angry at Mitch than the rest of the brass and Brown. Meaning that if Leon, Brunson, Browm, etc. are all trying to convince him to go over the second apron to retain Mitch, his response is “Not for that guy who almost cost me a championship…” It seems like that really is that is the only reason to do it, and it’s probably a hard sell, just like keeping Lin was a hard sell.
Dolan just burned liked $40M on Thibs, and before that, tens of millions on Phil. The Knicks are the most valuable franchise in the league and he’s raking in the championship spoils. It can’t be just the money, and if he’s saying no to Leon et. al., it can’t be for strategic reasons alone.
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I also have to wonder why persuasive voices like Rose, WWW, and Brunson can’t talk Dolan into going over the second apron line. Are their hearts just not into it? Is there dissent? Maybe medical is telling Dolan it’s a bad idea? If they pushed hard enough with airtight arguments (the most compelling of which might be that they could probably unload Mitch before the deadline for assets which would be better than losing him for nothing), would Dolan relent?
I guess we’ll have the answer by Wednesday.
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Dolan is an idiot.
Dude has tried to kill the vibes the moment they got to the finals.
I think the theory that he was too busy with the Sphere to mess up the last few years has gained some credence.
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I don’t buy that they were blindsided. They were $53,000 and change under the SA two years ago and $230,000 and change under the SA last year. They’ve rarely drafted and haven’t put a 1 in the regular, normal 1 draft slot number for years — clear evidence of picking and choosing your spots, and pinching pennies.
They didn’t go right up to within a rounding error of the SA, but not put their toes over the SA, by accident or coincidence. Plus it’s in the interest of the FO to paint it as them being surprised rather than not planning well. Can’t buy it. I can maybe buy “we can talk the boss out of it if and when we need to but let’s try to not need to,” but a full-on shock? No way.
Well said, Marechal.
Ever since the Knicks broke through the ECF and gained unprecedented local and national attention, he’s placed himself front & center: inviting Trump, acting like he’s Joe Namath, announcing the mandate, being a petty cunt at city hall, proclaiming that his players are going to the White House (good luck with that).
The razor is back with a vengeance.
Make no mistake: what may be about to happen is too stupid to come from the front office. And this is not something that happens all the time.
Mitch would be the best player thrown overboard by a defending champ since Tyson Chandler. Landry might even be the second best (it’s between him and PJ Tucker).
And there’s only been one contender in the apron era that’s panicked about the second apron: the Minnesota Timberwolves (talk about suicide).
Indeed, Dolan is an idiot.
For the record:
Prior to the NBA finals I had suggested Dolan might be the best owner in NY and that he could be headed for a second act like George Steinbrenner’s.
I was wrong. Even compared to a Yankees owner who is inexplicably fighting for a salary cap, Dolan is still, and will always be, the worst.
Fanatics, eccentrics, and extremists don’t get “better” with age, and their personality flaws and excesses don’t lessen — they get worse.
Textbook example from yesteryear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmoIjMr1BZs
Isn’t today the day that Alvarado delayed his player option too? I would guess we’ll be getting some idea on how the rest of free agency goes based on what happens with him.
The NBA champion Celtics stripped their team down to avoid the second apron . It’s why they are so much more beatable now
I don’t buy that they were blindsided. They were $53,000 and change under the SA two years ago and $230,000 and change under the SA last year. They’ve rarely drafted and haven’t put a 1 in the regular, normal 1 draft slot number for years — clear evidence of picking and choosing your spots, and pinching pennies.
They didn’t go right up to within a rounding error of the SA, but not put their toes over the SA, by accident or coincidence. Plus it’s in the interest of the FO to paint it as them being surprised rather than not planning well. Can’t buy it. I can maybe buy “we can talk the boss out of it if and when we need to but let’s try to not need to,” but a full-on shock? No way.
not persuasive. we were hard-capped below the second apron both of those years. we aggregated salaries our mega-trades in 24-25. last year we used the tpmle. those were relatively easy cases where staying under the second apron was the max flexibility move for immediate team improvement. not and accident or coincidence and also not evidence of second apron phobia applicable to this year.
“The not going into the second apron stuff, the front office did not advise that. It was not like the front office went to Dolan and was like, ‘No, it’s strategically helpful to not go into the second apron.’ That didn’t happen.” Katz reported.
“Dolan went on the radio, said they’re not going into the second apron. And then there were people in the Knicks who were like, ‘Wait, what?’ The Knicks front office understands that if they don’t go into the second apron, they’re going to lose guys.”
“People were blindsided,” Edwards added.
“Were hard-capped” is too passive a verb, IMHO, and as with the Yabu example offered up a couple days ago, confuses/reverses the causal arrow.
Wrong
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45696842/brad-stevens-says-celtics-trades-made-avoid-second-apron
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