Sorry, should have been more clear.

In America’s largest metro area, the words “KNICKS TICKETS” still have pretty huge pull. A game at MSG is still a pretty great spectacle regardless...and Dolan owns the arena, so fewer lease issues. It also doesn’t hurt that NYC’s other team is circling the bowl.

Not to mention, if you run the numbers, it’s likely what, a two win difference maybe? Yet all that work to integrate a new guy who you don’t even need. And agreed on the chemistry issues you mention: shipping out a quality team player for basically no reason.

Ingram is a perfect example of too much too soon. He has huuuuge holes in his game that need work but by the second half of the year he essentially stopped trying and settled for garbage stats.

He might still suck. Noels may never develop an outside game, Okafor might never learn basic team defense. But the thing is, they never had a shot in Philly. There was no emphasis on player development, they were mistakenly regarded as a failed fixed asset.

“He’s already got a nose for finishing around the hoop.”

I concur, and can speak from authority as someone who has guided multiple franchises to NBA Championships in NBA 2K on difficulty levels up to and including All Star.

Then balance the ticket with youth.

Rookie-averse NBA coaches kind of annoy me. These kids are not going to learn how to be NBA players through practices alone. They need game reps against real competition and time to make mistakes. If all they’re getting is a few minutes of garbage time, playing against the other team’s trash, it’s going to hamper…

And this is what I’m talking about. Trump will be 74, and his supporters aren’t using that as a reason not to vote for him. Instead of looking at the actual candidate we’re using arbitrary metrics. What’s Joe Biden’s 40 time? Not elite.

I haven’t seen a Dallas talent finish around the rim like that since Debbie.

Democrat? Republican? Lemon Party!

Big deal. Joe Jackson threw an entire World Series without any shoes!

Marketers are considering abandoning the suggestion that the shoes can make you a better player in favor of a guarantee that the shoes will make you feel like your dad is an insufferable prick.

Absolutely unacceptable. I’m throwing my support behind “2 Girls, 1 Election”!

“All your voter base are belong to us”

I believe a gassed Connor could be knocked down and body shots are never a cornerstone of an mma fight strategy. You see them in mma as an afterthought but the angles and distance of well executed body shots are fundamentally different from kicks to the midsection which is way more prevalent. I see that as a…

Golovkin v Canelo is going to be so great.

I’m not saying Thompson doesn’t like to shoot. But we have several seasons worth of evidence that he fits very well, and without any significant complaint, into an offense where he’s often the third or fourth option. We have several seasons of evidence that George bristles the minute he’s not the first option. I’m not…

Straight up Kawhi-for-Klay (salary matching be damned) is a move the Warriors do 100% of the time, and Spurs do 0% of the time