Turbulence is part of the world of sports but what is happening in the New York Knicks organization is more than turbulence it’s an all-out tire fire. Here is an organization that never makes any good headlines. They throw out former hall of famers that played for the team and are more than intent to trade the two bright spots on there ever worsening roster. So what’s to be done with the NBA’s worst franchise?
The answer is not in the players it is in the front office. Phil Jackson no matter what he did as a coach has made himself the number one villain in the NBA. You do that to yourself when you make disparaging remarks about the league’s best player in LeBron James. Jackson is out of touch with the way the game is played today and the way its stars interact with the fans and social media. He is a man stuck in the past. So when you dethrone Phil as the tyrant of New York what’s next?
Trade Carmelo Anthony. The all-star deserves better and you could get a bounty of draft picks back from say, Boston. This rebuild is going to be long and painful. As soon as Anthony is out you can start building around the unicorn that is Kristaps Porzingis. That means grabbing a point guard who is durable and a master passer, a defensive minded center and power forward and a pure shooting two guard. Once that is done you have to wait and eventually you scrape your way into the playoffs.
The jest is that this is going to take a long time like 10 years long time. First Phil Jackson has to go though. Phil Jackson is a cancer to the Knicks and at this point any organization he works for. The people in New York need to see that. The fact of the matter is that Jackson wants to get rid of the one bright spot on the Knicks roster. The unicorn is the shining star amongst a heap of Hudson River garbage upon the barge that is the Knicks organization. So it’s time to wake up New York, the alternative have one of the top sports cities route against their hometown team. If Porzingis is dealt, the garden will burn to the ground.