Forgive me if I'm not celebrating these moves. I did that before, and had to quickly repent. I immediately understood that Donnie Walsh is positioning the team to be able to financially go after a certain King along with a certain guy in Toronto. After talking with my sports braintrust, I was reminded of a previous fact theory about Commissioner David Stern and his real vision for the NBA. More after the random picture...
Commissioner Stern knows that his league, though globally popular now, will grow further domestically when all the teams in the big markets are successful. Those big markets are L.A., Chicago, Boston, and New York. As you hoop fans know, L.A. and Boston met in the Finals last year. Then, Chicago was blessed with the #1 pick and Derrick Rose. As I stated in that previous post that I know hope you clicked on, the reason why he didn't fix the Draft Lottery for the Knicks again is because the team was in shambles. Instead, seeing the bevy of free agent talent in the 2010 offseason, he recognized that the Knicks would be able to rebuild that way.
An idea that arose among my braintrust is that David Stern, through the power of connections like a Mob boss, somehow authorized this from a distance. At first, I doubted it. Then, I remembered that he is about the money. Using his incredible marketing genius, he devised a way to help the Knicks get going in the right direction. Since there's more than just, "sweat inside his hand," he can get the ball rolling on situations he would like to have happen in his league. Maybe he didn't force Warriors GM Chris Mullin and Clippers GM/Head Coach Mike Dunleavy to make offers they couldn't refuse, but he knew who Donnie Walsh should call in order to get those huge salaries off the books.
As far as my excitement goes, I won't be smiling when I talk about the Knicks until I see Lebron and Chris Bosh holding up their jerseys like Tim Thomas, Cuttino Mobley, and Al Harrington did the other day. Which reminds me, Quentin Richardson and Nate Robinson, I think you need to vacate those jersey numbers as soon as possible. Get used to #'s 25 and 8 respectively. And Steph, just take whatever they give you. Please?
Peace.
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