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Knicks Morning News (2025.08.25)
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The Mike Weinar news is weird, isn’t it? Would it be too many cooks in the kitchen if the Knicks scoop him up? If not, the Knicks could very well be like Jimmy Johnson’s Cowboys teams where Johnson was the CEO-type and disciplinarian with strong assistants. Jent and Weinar could cook up a fantastic offense, while Brown and O’Connor find ways to maximize the defense. That happens, I’m fine with moving on from 1 or 2 coaches, but Bryant and Fois have to stay for sure. With Rick Brunson entrenched, I think that would be a really good coaching staff
My guess is Weinar saw how many head and assistant coaches were able to leverage the Knicks to get raises this summer and took the interview thinking he’d be the next one. After turning us down he probably sought to renegotiate his contract, and Herb Simon didn’t appreciate the transparent ruse.
I couldn’t tell you the difference between Mike Weinar and Chris Jent, to be honest. But having two guys for the same job seems a little sloppy. The Grizzlies tried something like this with Taylor Jenkins, bringing in both Toumas Iisalo and Noah LaRoche. Each guy had his own vision and the whole thing was a mess.
“I love the Beasley news. “Oh, yeah, the Pistons can offer Beasley $7.2 million, and a number of other teams can even beat THAT, but, uh…the Knicks could get him, too, somehow!”
Exactly. I know the gambling probe has been dropped, but Malik seems like he in a financial mess–he weirdly sold part of his future earnings (and I guess spent the money), he is being sued by his former agent for fees due, and got evicted for not paying his rent. But we might be able to get him at a significant discount…
The Beasley situation is strange. Someone that’s in a difficult short term financial position like him is exactly the kind of person likely to break the rules and get involved in some kind of gambling scheme. Now that he’s been cleared (or they couldn’t find enough evidence to prosecute) he finds himself in a very damaged financial position. I’m not sure if anyone can be sued, but assuming innocent until proven guilty he was clearly damaged by this at the worst possible time. At the very least the league should provide him some help getting his house in order so he doesn’t wind up on the streets when his career is over.
Malik Beasley signing with us would be a remarkably poor financial decision, which based on some recent reporting about the guy is a reason to have some hope it might happen.
Whoever leaked his name probably lost Beasley a lot of money
That Daily Knicks article suggested we promise Beasley the starting spot as that might be more of an incentive than making a few extra million. Which if it was one year to “prove himself” we might get the best version of beasley out there.
Brunson, Beasley, Mikal, OG and KAT – this would be the 5 out line up we could only dream of. Rebounding and defense would be suspect but the offense would be ridiculous. Then you have a bench of Clarkson, Deuce, Hart, Yabu and Mitch.
That’s a fucking scary team.
I don’t think you can in good faith “promise” a guy like Beasley a starting spot on this team. You can say that he has a good chance to earn it…
Which reminds me of a question that’s been on my mind for a while and meant to ask here:
If Antoine Walker played in this era would he have been good?
So Donnie, there was a point in my life where I was banished to western MA — actually an amazing place to live, but back then no Knicks, only Celtics. So in despair I watched them, and this was in the Antoine heyday. He was extremely talented, and could rebound and pass, and for back in the day wasn’t too horrible at the three (led the league in attempts more than once), but good lord was he inefficient. He only cracked .500 TS% twice in his career. (To put that into perspective, our favorite punching bag RJ has averaged .531 so far, with only his rookie season under .500).
He was tremendously entertaining to watch, especially if you didn’t give a rat’s ass about the Celtics losing, but I think he’d be hard-pressed to get onto the floor now with the game he had then. And don’t even ask about his defense…
Didn’t one of those Antoine Walker teams make the Eastern Conference Finals?
That was the first “good” Celtics team since the end of the Bird era. But the east was also hella weak back then.
I’ve been a huge UK fan since I was 4 so I LOVED me some Antoine Walker back in the day.
Looked it up. the 2001-2002 season they won 49 games and got to the ECF, losing in 6 to the Nets. They were actually up on the Nets 2-0 but then lost the next 4 games to lose in 6.
That was young paul pierce leading the way with Walker playing second fiddle.
Antoine Walker had the best shimmy celebration ever.
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