Time to Start Taking Teams Away
With the news that the New York Knicks fired president Steve Mills, after already firing head Coach David Fizdale, one of the biggest laughing stocks of the NBA continued to be just that. Maybe there's hope that the fans' voices were heard, rumors are Masai Ujiri could be coming to New York, but would you really hold your breath after all those promising free agent runs?
It has become more evident that well run and structured front offices are the key to building a winning team. Yes the Los Angeles Lakers landed Anthony Davis, but who would have thought the Los Angeles Clippers and Brooklyn Nets would have won free agency? What did they have? Definitely in big cities but built good cultures and direction. Whereas premiere franchises like the Knicks and Chicago Bulls continue to be jokes.
In the Eastern Conference where half of the teams are under 500 these teams continue to not be able to find their way in to the playoffs to even say they're building something. Detroit, awful, Hornets, terrible! The management is a joke. Lottery pick after lottery pick and they can't get out of the basement even in a terrible East.
Both Chicago and New York have positioned themselves multiple times to make runs at LeBron, Wade, Bosh, Davis, Durant, Irving and they have come up with...zilch. Now teams are preparing for a run at Giannis Antetokounmpo. Anyone really think the Greek Freak will find himself in Chicago or New York? There's no way any respectable superstar would consider either of these teams and their joke management can't build a team to even make them look respectable.
For what seems like forever NBA fans have always laughed at the Kings, Suns, Timberwolves, but are the Pistons, Knicks and Bulls any better? Teams like the Jazz, Nuggets and Raptors have found themselves regularly in the playoffs and even positioned themselves to be championship threats. Admittedly, as a Bulls fan, they've had a couple of runs but management couldn't remove their ego and torched those teams that couldn't get by LeBron. Failure after failure and Formann and Paxson are still there despite not deserving the chance.
New York has at least tried to shake up the management, but there's one continuous problem. James Dolan continues to own the Knicks and continues to make headlines for his boneheaded actions. He's a black mark on the league and an embarrassment for one of the premiere franchises. Maybe New York will luck in to Ujiri and he can right the ship, but unlikely with Dolan still holding the team.
Load management, constant tanking, teams that never improve, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has a lot of problems to solve. The ratings are trending down and I don't think it's going to improve as long as terrible owners and terrible management continue to be in charge, especially some of the premiere franchises.
