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Thats just a ridiculous sentiment. Preposterous.
1. Hiring Phil in the first place for $12 mil a year instead of a lesser known, but more established basketball front office guy was about as Dolan as it gets to begin with... aka some stupid *** **** that no other organization would even think about doing. Dolan only did it to deflect away negative attention that was rightfully on him after the 2014 disaster, and hiring someone more esteemed / less of a name than Phil Jackson wouldn't have moved the needle enough for Dolan to escape accountability and take a victory lap in the NY media. A smarter owner doesn't do that plain and simple.
2. He let Phil stick around and act like a crazy **** for way too long because Dolan enjoyed using him as his own personal shield from criticism.
3. After he finally stepped in and kicked Phil's crazy senile *** to the curb, instead of doing something similar to what the BK Nets did after driving out the even more inept Billy King (hire a very well-respected up and coming front office guy from a winning organization like Sean Marks to turn things around), Dolan turned the team over to his personal sidekick for the last 20 years now... some more stupid *** **** that no other organization even thinks about doing. Steve Mills wouldn't be able to get a job cleaning the stadium with any other organization and we have him running the entire ****ing franchise.
It ALWAYS comes back to James Dolan. That is why we haven't won jack **** in the 20 years he's been here, and the 3-4 years we actually had some measure of success was due to the legwork of Donnie Walsh/Glen Grunwald - who took over the team after David $tern basically forced Dolan into it, before Dolan ripped back control of the team (when he fired Grunwald out of the ****ing blue after the successful 2013 season to bring back cockroach Mills) like he currently has, with his #2 henchman as our team president.
Can't stand this whole "Dolan is changed" narrative when STEVE ****ING COCKROACH MILLS is our ****ing team president. ****! I don't understand how anyone can buy into any bull**** these guys are spewing right now with Steve ****ing Mills at the top. Or how longtime fans with legitimate knowledge and personal experience with this team's history can say to "trust" him, when we keep buying into the same bull **** over and over again but nothing actually changes, ever. The more we buy into that bull**** narrative everytime they say some catchy buzzwords like "culture change" in the media, the more it will always be the same old song.
This is the guy who ****ing hired ISIAH THOMAS in 2003 (!), not only does he not get fired for that (like he does with any other functionally running organization/business), 15 YEARS later he is running the entire basketball operations. How the **** does that make ANY sense? Just really think about how ridiculous that is.
It's like the only 2 teams who haven't really made any legitimate changes up top over the past 15-20 years are the Knicks and the Spurs. The Spurs because they are a finely tuned machine and have had no reason to change under Pop, the Knicks because we are a dysfunctional mess owned by a neurotic lunatic. The Knicks are just as big of a disaster as they have always been under Dolan. He has more control over the team now as he did with any team since Isiah.
The smartest basketball guy he ever hired for us was Donnie ****ing Walsh (after $tern forced his hand), who was like 1000 years old, and Dolan still stepped in and broke his promise of autonomy before he was done building. How is that not Dolan's fault?
Dolan's Knicks are a classic example of what happens to any kind of company when there is 0 accountability from the top and blind loyalty is rewarded more than success and results. That is 1000000% on his shoulders no matter how much direct personal influence he wields over personnel decisions.
**** James Dolan. ALWAYS. He is the common denominator for a reason.
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so he can slide a little more.
