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Yaxel is joining Adey Mara as my favorite new young player, mostly for his postgame presser last night about Luka.
Anyone want to make big sweeping pronouncements about teams/players now that we’ve had two nights of games?
It’s not even close.
If you want the math, I’ll provide it but I don’t want to kick off a day debunking more BS from Bob.
I will say I find the idea that the last player you sign is responsible for 100% your team’s luxury tax to be ridiculous. The tax is on the whole roster, not the one player who puts you over the line.
A player who makes 5% of the payroll is responsible for 5% of the taxes, regardless of the signing sequence.
But if you really want to commit to that “logic”, then all we had to do was sign Mitch before Jose, Landry, and Mo, and voila! Now Mitch cost $0 in taxes.
Knicks in 5
“Anyone want to make big sweeping pronouncements about teams/players now that we’ve had two nights of games?”
Ty Jerome may be more than just a flash in the pan.
Hali is *truly* back, as is FVV. Ant Ball will be fun in Minny.
Hubert, you can still talk about tax fist before and after a signing.
YES
And Brayden Burries is a great (basketball) name.
I disagree with the concept that all players on the team should be held equally accountable for the luxury tax (porportional to their salaries, of course) when it comes to decision-making at present. Not refuting the logic, just the spirit of the argument at this time.
For whatever reasons, Dolan made his “no second apron” proclamation. Obviously the exorbitant repeater luxury tax multipliers (that only apply incrementally, not to all dollars over the tax) are a significant reason, if not the primary or even the only reason. Going into the second apron would bring into play the higher multipliers. It would also bring into play the roster transaction related consequences, some of which would take place immediately, some of which would only go into effect after being over the apron for 3 of the next 5 years. Dolan may not fully grasp the magnitude or timing of these consequences, but no matter. Even if it is just about the tax, and his “principled” stand that he doesn’t want to fork over even more of his money to other teams (the whole revenue-sharing structure is repugnant to him) then that’s his prerogative.
With the iron-clad proclamation in place, whether Leon agreed with it or not, he had ways to retain Mitch while staying under the apron. This includes salary-dumping any of the starters, or ditching all non-minimum non-starters. Clearly, Leon decided that letting Mitch walk was the most prudent way to go about it. Every other avenue involved similar, if not greater downside. So if one is going to refute Bob’s admittedly faulty logic, it should be grounded in “here’s what Leon should have done to avoid the second apron rather than let Mitch go, being that Dolan put a hard cap on the luxury tax he was willing to pay.”
The bottom line is that Dolan doesn’t give a shit about what anyone else thinks. He doesn’t give a shit about maximizing his chances to repeat as champions, no matter what Leon or anyone else tells him. In my humble opinion, it’s far more likely that he will double down and insist that Leon get the team out of repeater tax territory than it is that. he will relent and tell him to go into the second apron. Just like he doesn’t give a shit about what anyone thinks about his wearing a gaudy peach-colored blazer.
My sweeping pronouncement: Ant-Man is going to make a serious run at league MVP.
Julius deserves better. A little sad for him.
Bulls shot 4-of-36 on 3s.
We can branch off into a million side arguments about this, all of which have been argued many times already.
The bottom line is there wasn’t a $91M difference between Mitch and Drummond.
And whatever the difference was, let’s not pretend James Dolan made a decision rooted in sound economic principles and advanced basketball analytics. He made one rooted in spite, ignorance, and deep insecurity.
Not to mention… HE DIDN’T EVEN MAKE A DECISION ABOUT DRUMMOND VS MITCH.
What he did was issue a stupid mandate on the radio and box his front office into a corner, forcing Leon to make the best of an impossible situation.
Ant will look like the MVP till LaMelo goes down with a season ending injury
He installed surveillance equipment to listen to what people say about him and keeps a list of every fan who ever criticized him out loud inside MSG or in the media.
No one gives more shits about what everyone else thinks than James Dolan.
“No one gives more shits about what everyone else thinks than James Dolan.”
There’s a lot of irony here. Dolan doesn’t give a shit about what anyone thinks about his installation of surveillance equipment. Or about bouncing Oakley from MSG. Or about how anyone feels about the second apron. So yes, he is incredibly thin-skinned and vindictive. But he cares not one iota in terms of how anyone feels about his thin-skinned-ness and vindictiveness. Is that even in dispute?
“He made one rooted in spite, ignorance, and deep insecurity.”
Case in point. He doesn’t give a shit about what you think, and if you want to ever come into his “house” you had better keep your mouth shut about it or you will be banned for life, while he laughs his ass off as you are being dragged out. Even if you are one of the most celebrated players on one of the best teams in Knicks history.
Upon further review, you appear correct.
It appears to be 75-80 M.
If you have a “correct” number, I’d like to see it and change my judgement.
I am not an expert on the CBA so I went to chat GPT (which can certainly be wrong). Their analysis was:
Adding Robinson’s full salary to that projected payroll would put New York about $11.8 million above the second apron, assuming no offsetting roster moves.
What about luxury tax?
The Knicks’ estimated luxury-tax bill at their existing projected payroll is approximately $34.1 million.
JJNBA
Because the NBA tax is progressive, adding $15 million in salary could increase the tax bill substantially more than $15 million.
A reasonable illustrative estimate is:
Cost component
Estimate
Robinson’s salary
$15.0M
Additional luxury tax
Approximately $60–65M
Total incremental team cost
Approximately $75–80M
The tax estimate is illustrative, not an official league calculation; the exact amount depends on the final roster, tax status and end-of-season payroll.
Bottom line
Keeping Mitchell Robinson at his actual first-year salary would likely have cost the Knicks roughly $75–80 million in combined salary and incremental luxury tax for 2026–27, under the simplified payroll assumptions above. It also would have pushed them over the second apron, creating significant roster-building restrictions.
That financial burden helps explain why the Knicks let him leave for Boston, even after his contributions to their championship run.
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+1
So, basically, he’s a fascist, lol.
I think it’s a semantics argument. You can’t blame Mitch if we signed him and went into the second apron because all of the other salaries add up to put us into the second apron. At the same time, the timing of when his contract came up means his contract would have put us over.
I think it’s actually a mute point, honestly. We got the best we could have out of Mitch last season and, besides the money, he wanted a bigger role than we could give him. And he might not even make it through a year of his new contract with the celtics. He’s already hurt his ankle. I think there were plenty of basketball reasons not to give Mitch a 20 million dollar contract even if it didn’t put us into the second apron.
The real test will be with KAT, OG, Mikal, Hart, etc. What Dolan is willing to do to keep that core together. A lot will depend on how we look this season.
I am 100% rolling with Drummond. Brown just isn’t using him correctly yet.
Think about how many games of terrible KAT basketball we had to watch before they figured things out… Drummond shouldn’t take nearly that long.
There are a lot of good teams this year, but hopefully our continuity will help us get over the hump in the end.
That said, I think we are going to need some real regular-season minutes from Kolek, Mo, Wiseman, and maybe even Dadiet.
Kolek in particular will be important, since the league will be getting a lot more physical with Brunson this season. He doesn’t need to be amazing; just net neutral in his minutes. Same with Mo and Wiseman. Our starting 5, while still dominant, can’t go full-bore for 82 games.
Jeez imagine if Thibs was still around… it was such a good call to move off him on many levels.
I think it’s in great dispute, unless I misunderstand you.
He doesn’t care about anyone more than himself. And when he makes decisions about the Knicks, I know he is only motivated to do what pleases him, not what would please Knicks fans. Perhaps that’s what you’re getting at when you say he doesn’t give a shit about what everyone else thinks, i.e. that he doesn’t consider anyone besides himself when making decisions.
But that’s narcissism. And narcissists care about what everyone else thinks to an extremely unhealthy degree.
When I read “doesn’t care what anyone else thinks”, I imagine a healthy, self assured man who gives zero fucks. That ain’t him. That’s Jordan Clarkson.
Drummond has to come to terms with his lack of lift. He can’t dunk over 7-footers any more. It’s not an easy thing to do. Hopefully he’ll come around to it.
On another note, I wonder if Mike Brown played Drummond extensive minutes to “stretch him out.” Maybe he thinks that he needs to use the regular season to get Drummond into peak shape, and that will improve his lateral quickness and vertical lift. If that’s the case, I sort of get it, but I wonder if he might be playing with “nagging injury” fire, given Andre’s age. And frankly, he seems to be in pretty good shape already.
“Perhaps that’s what you’re getting at when you say he doesn’t give a shit about what everyone else thinks, i.e. that he doesn’t consider anyone besides himself when making decisions.”
Exactly. Seemed pretty obvious that this is what I meant. I guess not.
Not entirely sure “over 7-footers” is a necessary caveat…
Hoping it was a 1 game abberation. He didn’t seem to have the same issue in the preseason.
Edit: NVM, he definitely blew at least 1 open dunk in the preseason too.
I’m also getting Jason Kidd 2013 vibes from him, great through the majority of the season but run out of gas by the playoffs.
A couple things with this, Bob…
I don’t think we should assume that his salary with us would have been the same as his salary with the Celtics.
By all accounts, Mitch wanted to stay here, like Landry and Jose did, and if we’d made him an offer during our exclusive negotiating window we probably would have gotten something done at a lower price like we did with everyone else.
In addition, since we have different priorities than the Celtics, we probably would have been motivated to lower the AAV hit and give him an extra year instead, like we did with Landry, Jose, and Mo.
And lastly, you’re not just adding Mitch’s salary. You’re adding it and subtracting someone else’s. If we assume that’s Drummond, it’s minus $2.4M.
In the end, let’s say you have Mitch at $12M, minus $2.4M, that’s $9.6M. Plug that into the repeater tax table (because I quit chatGPT yesterday), and we’re like $800k under the SA now, so you’re looking at $8.8 over the SA instead, that’s about $45M in extra tax, plus $9.6 in salary, so almost $55M.
But the more important point here is that Dolan absolutely did not perform a cost benefit analysis of Andre Drummond and Mitchell Robinson. He issued a mandate to Leon. And Leon’s choice wasn’t Andre at X dollars vs Mitch at Y dollars, it was Mitch or Landry + Jose + Mo + Andre.
It wasn’t. And your example was a full blown contradiction:
A person who says shut your mouth or you will be banned for life absolutely gives a shit about what you think, to an extremely unhealthy degree.
Whatever, you know what I meant in this context and are just being unnecessarily argumentative. Some things never change.
I genuinely did not. You seemed to be lionizing the “he doesn’t give a shit about what you think” stuff, as if it makes him strong.
Victor Wembayama doesn’t give a shit about what I think. But James Dolan does. He’d throw me out of MSG as soon as heard me!
I’ve never said anything that isn’t in the context of Dolan being a reprehensible narcissist. Please stop, or just go back to ignoring my posts.
I watched a lot of Pelicans Pacers and a little of Kings Clippers. The Kings looked almost hopeless and they were playing the Clippers who aren’t supposed to be good. They lost by a lot. I felt bad for the Kings and think they are going to be as bad as all the preseason articles predicted.
The Pelicans on the the other hand, made a lot of defensive mistakes in the first quarter but then stiffened up, went into the lead and held it until almost the end. You may remember that I suggested a couple of weeks ago that their new coach might get them a substantially better record than last year and have a shot at coach of the year. I still think that’s still a possibility. The Pacers were looking like the Pacers and Halliburton was good and they still had a tough time. The Pelicans were killing them on the boards. Missi looked excellent, even though he spent on the bench with a big ice pack on his shoulder. They really could be decent this year.
I think it’s pretty fair to say that Dolan has genuine contempt for Knicks fans and for New Yorkers in general. When they won the chip I think he was expecting to get some love from the fanbase but that was never going to happen. New Yorkers loathe him.
I’ve known some “blues lawyer” types in my day, rich guys who like to hang around musicians because they think some of the cool will rub off on them. It just serves to make them look MORE uncool, because they don’t know how to act or dress and so everybody who is hanging around is just like “wow get a load of this douchebag.”
Dolan went the extra mile and actually FORMED A BAND and FORCED PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO HIS MUSIC, almost out of spite. What, you don’t like me? Well, check out this blues number I wrote while you wait for The Eagles. Here’s another one, this one’s about Trayvon Martin.
When the Knicks won the title most people just commented on how dumb Dolan’s blazer was and how shitty his comments at the parade were and what a general turd of a human being he is. So I see his actions since as actions made out of spite: oh, you don’t like my blazer? Well, then maybe I don’t want to go into the second apron. What’s that, you didn’t like my speech? Well, maybe I’ll bring my friend Isiah Thomas back.
That’s what’s happening here. He hates us.
Lamelo traveled
Doing the Moonwalk doesn’t count as traveling
You may be correct that Mitch would have taken a lesser salary. Of course, maybe he liked the idea of being the starting center on a legit contender AND make a few extra million along the way. We will never know.
Whatever, the best possible case you can make is signing Mitch would have cost Dolan 55M this season for his back up center. Jokic makes 59M this season to be the best player maybe in the history of the NBA. It is above my pay grade to calculate how signing him for the 4 years he received would have inpacted things with multiple extensions coming up the next few years.
It was perfectly reasonable for Dolan to choose an alternate path. I can just imagine Leon walking into the office and saying “I want to give at least Jokic money to Mitch.” Dolan probably responded, ” You mean the guy who isn’t available via chronic injury about 30% of the time, and when he is available is extremely vunerable to Hack a Mitch, AND he might punch a wall and be unavailable for stupidity reasons? ”
That is my only point. I have genuine dislike for Dolan. I haven’t gone to the Garden (and I used to be a Rangers season ticket holder in the late 70’s) since 2005. I refuse to give him a bleepin penny.
As many of you think, he may have refused to pay the freight out of pure petulance, but there was a perfectly reasonable business reason, too.
I think the best possible case I can make is it would have cost $55M to bring back the entire team that won a championship and earned MSG almost $200M in 8 weeks. That’s less than Dolan paid Phil Jackson and Tom Thibodeau to go away.
But again… I’ve already written this in all caps and written it in bold… James Dolan did not perform a cost benefit analysis of Andre Drummond vs Mitchell Robinson and choose Andre Drummond.
He issued a mandate to Leon Rose.
To frame it any other way is misleading.
All this Mitch talk is a “a big to-do” about very little.
I like the Pistons, Lakers, T-Wolves, Raptors and Thunder even more than the consensus this year. The Raptors and Lakers will need to remain healthy, but both are very good.
I’m expecting a monster season out of Doncic. I think he’s finally in shape, is experienced and mature enough to play the right way now and the pieces around him fit great.
I don’t like the Heat.
The irony is I was prepared to embrace him, and I think others would have, too.
I was on record as suggesting he was on track to follow George Steinbrenner’s redemption arc. Leon was his Gene Michael, Thibs was his Buck Showalter, Mike Brown his Joe Torre, and the Sphere was his year-long suspension. I even gave him props for his speech on the podium.
But like a loud south Florida DJ at a quiet Sunday afternoon pool, he foolishly decided “this is my time to shine” and started acting like everyone came out for him.
He is loathed because he’s been loathsome from the minute he invited Trump to game 3. This was his chance at redemption, and he fucked it up.
“When the Knicks won the title most people just commented on how dumb Dolan’s blazer was and how shitty his comments at the parade were and what a general turd of a human being he is. So I see his actions since as actions made out of spite: oh, you don’t like my blazer? Well, then maybe I don’t want to go into the second apron. What’s that, you didn’t like my speech? Well, maybe I’ll bring my friend Isiah Thomas back.”
I wouldn’t even give him this much credit. My guess is that he thinks he’s actually a good musician, that he’s correct about the second apron, and that he thinks Isiah is the right guy for the job. To me, it’s more a combination of ignorance, grandiosity, and callous indifference than spite. Although I do think the spite part is a bonus.
KNFINJ….I watched (well…was doom scrolling on my phone with the game on with no sound) that Kings game too (after turning of the Laker game)…and felt the same way…what a godforsaken franchise….I bet there isn’t one player in the league that would want to play with Lavine…I got similar vibes from the Nets…the Randle/Porter Jr combo is also a killer i’m gonna get mine setup…
Watched the Pels too…I just like to watch Zion.. but agree…they look to be competitive.
Speaking of Isaiah Thomas, I saw a quote attributed to him about the 3 point shot.
I think the league shoots too many 3 pointers. So does he. I’d like to see more balanced offenses with less volatility. His idea wasn’t to move the 3 point line, it was to cap the number of 3 pointers you are allowed to take either by quarter or game. That would increase versatilty around the league, reduce volatilty and add a strategic element in when to shoot them and when not to because of the cap. That’s not his worst idea.
Do you think he gives a single fuck about the fans or your particular thoughts about his “redemption?”
I really don’t think he looks at it as a missed opportunity. 🙂
It is pretty clear he lives rent free in a lot of folks mind. It is actually fairly humorous.
Probably not his worst, but pretty bad, though.
I was never prepared to embrace Dolan
I literally just had this conversation with Z-Man.
100% yes I think he cares, hence the surveillance equipment to listen to what people are saying about him, and the list of all the people who are banned from MSG for being critical of him.
He went on award tour after the Knicks won seeking out love. He leaked a video of himself “inspiring the team” to make people think he contributed to the title.
He did everything he could to make himself part of the love fest, and I think it infuriated him that Mamdani got all the love he thought was going to be his.
I think Dolan is the typical arrogant rich guy that thinks because he has a lot of money or had a lot of success in one area that means his opinion on many things is better than most other people’s.
I think he tried hard to win, but because of his incompetence and arrogance it took him a very long time to accidentally stumble onto Leon Rose who then put together an excellent management team.
Dolan probably attributes a good portion of the championship to himself and may be slipping back into his more arrogant ways.
I see this attitude/problem in many areas of life, but especially politics.
Fair enough.
If he had kept himself in the background and allowed Leon to leverage the Knicks’ financial might to gain a competitive advantage over the league, I would have. And I suspect many Knicks fans would have, too. Especially the newer ones who don’t know much about him.
Bob claims he doesn’t like Dolan but you know that he actually does kind of dig Guitar Jimmy a little bit because he thinks JD oWnS tHe LiBs. I mean did you hear what he said at the parade about “I don’t need your vote,” sick burn, amirite? Take that, Zohran!
It’s perfectly possible to think somebody is a complete tool without letting them “live in your head.” Like for instance I think Billy Corgan is a ridiculous jackass but I wouldn’t say that grunge’s answer to Charlie Brown lives in my head rent free.
Dolan has indeed been living rent free in my head since he went on the radio and issued the mandate. I cannot deny that.
On the floor
I don’t think I would have ever “embraced” Dolan but I was prepared to change my opinion of him from “idiot” to “former idiot who has matured a a bit and realizes his limitations” but now he’s going back to being an idiot.
Well, Steve Malkmus has lived in his head for over 30 years, so interesting example.
A friend of mine was on a session with Corgan once, they were recording some dumb song for a movie and the song actually never even came out. This is maybe like in the mid-00’s, a phase when the Pumpkins were declining in popularity.
Billy’s obsession that day was the White Stripes, he just kept talking shit about how Jack White wasn’t a “real” rock star and how their sales were nothing like the Pumpkins in the 90’s. This was apropos of nothing, nobody there had any connection with Jack White and their name didn’t come up organically in conversation.
But Billy kept lamenting how the White Stripes were killing rock music while they worked on this dumb piece of shit song. He was obsessed with how the song ended, because in his opinion it was very important for the song to end a certain way so the DJ could come on the air and say (imitates radio bumper voice) “YOU’RE LISTENING TO K-ROCK” as the last chord rang out. Then every time they got to that part of the song Corgan would do the radio bumper voice.
still haven’t looked at our schedule, sort of just expecting a bunch of losses here early…
okay, just looked…seems we got four easier matchups out of the first 10…the next ten though…yikes…
so yeah, 80% of our competition starting out the gate is gonna be decent, or better…
.500 over the first 20 might not be that bad…
edit: didn’t even look at back to backs or traveling situations…
I just find it so hard to imagine the level of blinding narcissism that being so despised is not really noticed. I mean, if it was noticed, he’d maybe try to behave slightly differently, right? He must surround himself with a full blockade of panting sycophants. And I guess if he does notice, he probably attributes it to Libtards only, so no reason to pay any attention.
Alternatively, over/under on number of times Mitch blocks Drummond?
I think the term “haters” and the connotation that anyone who doesn’t like you or what you do is just a “jealous hater” is one of the most noxious ideas to evolve in our public consciousness in the last 15 years or so.
Sometimes a lot of people are “haters” because you’re a shit human being. There are a lot of rich people who think everyone who isn’t rich is just jealous of them. I think it actually doesn’t dawn on them that most non wealthy people would be just fine never being super wealthy as long as they had enough money to live comfortably with their family and loved ones, feel a little bit of security and hope for the future, and have time to spend doing the things they love. They just assume everyone is jealous of them and therefore “hates” them.
It will be far more interesting when Mitch switches onto Brunson.
Come for the endless beefing between Hubert and Z-Man
Stay for the random music stories from JK47
Come on, Owen. I couldn’t have been more respectful while disagreeing with someone and genuinely trying to understand their POV.
“Come on, Owen. I couldn’t have been more respectful while disagreeing with someone and genuinely trying to understand their POV.”
Bullshit.
But no matter. Tell you what. Leave it to others to parse my language. I doubt that anyone else would have taken issue with my post the way that you did. Maybe next time, write down what you were thinking rather than posting to see if that’s true. Or, as you once promised, just ignore my posts altogether. I think the board would appreciate that.
I’ll be happy to return the favor. In fact, I just did, since I disagreed with a number of things you said more recently in this thread and just let it go.
You began the day by disagreeing with me respectfully and when I did the same you lost your temper. That’s on you, man. Cheers.
Comparing Mitch’s salary + its estimated luxury tax impact to Jokic’s salary alone is useless. It tells us nothing at all.
But more importantly, there was very little in the way of opportunity cost when it came to bringing back Mitch. Every dollar above what he counted against the salary cap and apron threshold was a Dolan dollar. That’s it.
You can scream from the mountaintops that James Dolan has the right to cheap out and not run back the team that brought me, and just about every other New Yorker I know, more joy than any other in my lifetime.
I remain aware of his legal right in this regard, and I remain firm in my belief that it was a selfish, shitty decision that fans shouldn’t defend. A billionaire nepo baby saved some money at our direct expense.
Defend it if you please, but let’s be clear about what happened.
With all due resepct, you can scream from the mountain tops but Denver did precisely the same thing after winning the championship and they are owned by the WalMart family. OKC just dumped Joe and starter Dort for purely tax reasons. Boston made multiple moves over the past few seasons including the NBA Finals MVP who was the 6th best player in the NBA for long term financial reasons, and they don’t pay a dime of luxury tax.
Dolan is far from the only owner who doesn’t give 2 shits on a rainy day about the fans. If the Knicks bring anyone more joy that anything in their lives, all I can tell you is not to depend on billionaires to give you joy. Most will pull the rug out from under you for a buck.
My god, I find myself firmly in Bob’s camp. What a strange place. Why is it covered in empty cans of beans?
Someone just sent me this: One thing nobody warned me about getting older is that I’d become simultaneously more tolerant and less tolerant.
More tolerant of people being different.
Considerably less tolerant of people being dickheads.
will sell the rug right out from under you…
the cavs are gonna be so tough to beat this regular season…
you can already hear the boos loudly in philly…
hopefully they fall apart this season and have a tough time finding any kind of rhythm in the post season…
Just out of curiosity, what on earth does that mean?
Also, for the most unaware statement, Shaq just said something to the effect he was surprised the Sixers were getting bood in Philly down 24 at the half 🙂
That’s not entirely true, and Presti was extremely forthright about this. He said he saved the team money now so they could spend it later.
Then they proceeded to spend it. They signed Hartenstein and Cason Wallace, and have both Jared McCain and Ajay Mitchell coming up. If they pay just one of those guys Clay Bennett is owner of the century. This is a team that’s going to live over the second apron and be deep in the luxury tax for a long time. What they did made sense.
They’re also the smallest market in the NBA. Not really the team we should be comparing ourselves to.
Not at all comparable.
It makes perfect sense to duck the luxury tax after your team loses in the second round, your star player tore his achilles, and the guys you’re getting rid of (Jrue, Porzingis) are old and washed.
As has been mentioned a million times, when they were in a comparable position to Dolan, they did the exact opposite and paid the taxes.
As did Joe Lacob of the Warriors.
Even the large market Milwaukee Bucks ponied up more in luxury tax than Dolan did.
And actually I don’t think they did, either. They increased their payroll and paid more taxes the year after they won. They didn’t start tearing the team apart for financial reasons until after they lost in the second round.
The Bruce Brown thing was ridiculous. Indiana poison pilled them so they could get a tradable salary (which needed to get Siakim). It would be like if someone offered Mitch $50M instead of $15M.
If this team loses in the second round next year and Dolan wants to duck the taxes, then he’ll be in the company of Boston and Denver.
If he says we need to duck the second apron now so we can blow past it next year to keep everyone together, then he’ll be in the company of OKC.
But right now he stands alone as the first douchebag owner to ever pull this sort of stunt.
Sorry Bob, since I found myself in your camp I was imagining a hunting camp deep in the Florida bayous. Got all rednecked up there for a second…
Hubert,
OKC didn’t resign a starter and a rotation player for exactly the same reason Dolan didn’t resign Mitch… they didn’t want to incur the cost of the second apron.
You think they might miss losing Dort’s wing/post defense at some point in the playoff when some player gets hot against them, or miss Joe’s distance shooting?
Being unwilling to go into the second apron could easily cost this real contender a championship.
Argument sound familiar?
I grew up in Westchester County with a tennis court in my back yard, not hillbilly hand fishin 🙂
My diet is primarily low carb… beans are out!
things i associate most with the south: not a lot of clothing on folks, and huge flying insects…
yeah, that’s the south…
oh yeah, poor primary school education systems…add that one in too…
Bob, as one of my favorite KB posters likes to say, you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Sam Presti is on the record as saying the complete opposite of what you’re suggesting. It’s indisputable that they did not do the same exact thing.
Maybe, but he was already losing his minutes to Cason Wallace, who is younger, cheaper, and better.
Definitely not, because they already replaced him with Jared McCain is younger, cheaper, and way better.
What they did is like if we let Mitch go because we had Kel’el Ware waiting in the wings to replace him.
well they are cheering in philly now…nice comeback by the sixers…
Wait, I thought Jaylen Brown sucked…
Hand the championship to the Sixers now, they’re obviously the best team in the NBA
Seems like a bad challenge…
edit: guess not, but I disagree with the call.
they’re getting their ass kicked analytically by the Cavs
Spida choking…
Man, that supermax contract for Spida is not gonna age well.
hahahahaha…that shit is gonna follow kenny atkinson for ever 😊
jalen williams is looking pretty healthy at the moment…
if healthy, him and sga might just have the edge over the lamelo/ant man backcourt…
and the young castle/harper backcourt…luka/reeves…ja/dame…
man, there are some serious backcourt duo terrors out there…
Nick Nurse is gonna need to do the One Weird Trick a lot because the 76ers have five great starters and then not a whole hell of a lot else.
in the east, would probably go maxey/edgecombe over harden/mitchell as the best backcourt…
jalen and josh make for an interesting backcourt combo, maybe not an ideal combo (jalen needs a ball handler next to him ideally) – but it works…
if hali is really back, him and nembhard make for a tough pair to deal with too…
I dunno, Wade, Barlow and Simons are pretty good and KCP is serviceable. Their achilles heel seems to be backup C.. Embiid playing 33-34 mpg is not likely to end well. But so long as Embiid can play reasonably well, they are going to be tough to stop in crunch time.
The Sixers also have an empty roster spot and cap space under the aprons. Maybe they can do something creative before the playoffs.
Oh my God. The fake phishing “test” email Dolan sent to msg employees, tricking them into clicking links supposedly giving them access to free championship rings only to then have a cybersecurity class forced on them if they clicked the link, is, in a word: awful.
That Athletic piece is crazy – anyone semi-defending Dolan (no one of actually defending him), he just let you know that he’s even worse than imagined. What a total POS.
Joker’s season debut was quite underwhelming. He doesn’t usually start off slow.
Maxey might be a superstar.
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