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22 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.09.16)”
Media Day is 9/23, Training camp opens 9/24, can’t come soon enough!
So, some news: https://alansepinwall.ghost.io/dont-stop-believing/
Ah shit, Alan, sorry to hear. Had that happen to me a few years back, turned out to be the very best thing that’s happened, but it was still a tremendous shock to all systems for a while. Very much hope you end up in a much happier place, as have I.
Yeah, Alan, sorry for this development, I’m sure it is a heavy load. Hope all works out well as you shift focus to other opportunities!
10/2 First Game of the NBA Preseason: Knicks vs. Sixers in Abu Dhabi.
Sending good wishes, Alan.
Relying on legacy media to provide a stable base is a tough proposition. Alan, you have incredibly loyal readers. We are all pulling for you.
I will subscribe to get behind the paywall, but I will skip over all the TV stuff. You talk about music, food, and Bennedict Mathurin over there too, right?
Sorry to hear it Alan!
It’s actually, like, 87% Mathruin at this point, Donnie.
EDIT: I was going to fix the typo, but “mathruin” actually feels like a good term to use on an analytics-driven blog where so many of us are bad at math.
Sorry Alan, but you’re as strong a candidate as any to succeed via the independent newsletter route. Who knows, you might even find it freeing, and maybe even more remunerative!
That really sucks, Alan, sorry to hear that. Hoping the best for you.
Also, Dennis Smith Jr. becoming a defensive ace is not something I ever expected, given his T-Rex arms.
Best of luck, I really feel for you. Your writing is great, you should do ok
Sorry to hear, Alan. Things are looking grim for the industry, but most other industries are following suit if that makes you feel any better. We’ll all be working in the slave mines soon enough.
And hey, on the bright side, at least you weren’t publicly singled out for harassment by Trump’s yappy guard puppy like some writers!
Damn Alan, so sorry to hear that. Hope you’re able to navigate through this to a better place.
Oof. Sorry to hear, Alan. Will still be happy to read you at your newsletter and in your books.
besides being a travesty, that sucks alan. it’s very unlucky to be trapped in this long moment of a broken economic pipeline for written content. the world has still not figured out how to organize itself to route economies between the writers who obviously still have requisite underlying demand and scarcity and their potential consumer surpluses. the options for most writers still seem to be clinging to a flailing publication or capturing only the portion of the audience willing to pay a la carte prices (or clumsily tier them).
i haven’t really understood why a streamlined bundling solution hasn’t emerged that allows readers to pay for groups of writers at lower implicit individual prices, permitting the writers to benefit from price discrimination. technology makes it fairly easy to price these bundles far more meritocratically and flexibly than the old fiat method used by magazines and cable companies. ideas like medium and the everything bundle (now “Every”) on substack are really just old school blind-bundling in disguise. it seems intuitive to me that there is a ton of latent demand for “pick ten writers and pay X price” and also that the technology to reasonably price the individual writers as bundle components is doable.
I agree that it would probably be a mistake, but I’m less certain it will be Mitch that gets traded if things aren’t working in his pairing with Towns and the Towns/Brunson matchup is still giving us issues.
If that pairing is not working, how do you fix it if not with a player like Mitch taking the role of Gobert?
The only other possibility may be trading Towns.
I’ve always been a Mitch fan, but with a limitation on my enthusiam due to the makeup of our team. But he keeps growing on me. If we do trade him, I’m not going to be happy. So it better be for someome good.
Sorry to hear that Alan. You are a bright guy and very good writer. I’m certain the best is ahead for you.
This may be an oversimplification, but can Mike Brown and Co get the team to perform a minimum of 2 points better on offense and 2 points better on defense? I REALLY like the assistants we have hired, and I think with the individual talents we have who can take over games as needed(Brunson, KAT, OG,Bridges, Clarkson, and even Hart in his own way)- that it would be enough for the team to be elite this season. I’d much rather for the team to give up less than 110ppg, but we don’t quite have enough high level defenders to do that.
This is not an area I’ve given even a minute’s thought to, but I like this idea. There are a few people I’d like to read regularly that I dont pay for now that I might spring for in a deal like that.
Two points is a lot, but I think it’s more likely we improve on offense than defense. IMO the offense should be top 3. I think the Lakers are going to have a great offense if Luka is healthy and stays in shape. Denver and OKC should be top level again. Last year we were near the top early and then faded. Maybe with a little more variety and better use of our players, we can sustain top level.
Whether we trade Mitch may be dependent on whether/how much Huk develops. But even so, he is too valuable on his deal to trade unless it’s in a package with KAT for Giannis. I just don’t know whether it’s worth extending him…so there’s definitely a chance we lose him for nothing if we dont, as extending him might mean second apron city.
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