{"id":43231,"date":"2020-08-08T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/andrew-yang-knicks-may-have-gotten-it-all-wrong-again\/"},"modified":"2020-08-08T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:51:00","slug":"andrew-yang-knicks-may-have-gotten-it-all-wrong-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andrew-yang-knicks-may-have-gotten-it-all-wrong-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#Andrew Yang: Knicks may have gotten it all wrong again"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Andrew Yang: Knicks may have gotten it all wrong again<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Andrew Yang is concerned the Knicks\u2019 Tom Thibodeau coaching hire might not be the right fit. Nor is Yang convinced the Knicks new administration can change the team\u2019s fortunes with James Dolan as owner.<\/p>\n

The former Democratic presidential candidate who participated in seven debates believes he has reason for skepticism. The 45-year-old Westchester native had been a Knicks fan since he was a teenager. He recalls standing on line outside the Garden for special $10 tickets.<\/p>\n

Yang, a vocal Knicks critic on his Twitter<\/a> account, recently turned allegiances to the Nets because of all the orange-and-blue heartbreak.<\/p>\n

In a 25-minute interview with The Post concerning his past Knicks fandom, Yang said his hope is Dolan will realize it is in Gotham\u2019s best interests to sell the team and wonders whether new president Leon Rose\u2019s vision will ever come to fruition.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to be cautiously optimistic,\u2019\u2019 Yang said. \u201cTurning over a new leaf is a positive. The main lens you have for Leon Rose is the sense he\u2019s a relationship guy. The concern you have is: Will he hope to be saved by some epic free-agent haul with his high-powered former clients? That concern is somewhat reflective of hiring Thibodeau with whom Rose had a prior relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at Thibodeau with a track record of success, Knicks heritage and DNA. This team has needed an identity, discipline, structure. He provides those things \u2014 all positives. You think, \u201cso far so good.\u201d But there\u2019s also a concern Thibodeau is the hire [you make] when you\u2019re ready to compete, and this team is somewhat not ready to compete. Is that a fit?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Before getting into politics, Yang, a Columbia Law School graduate, founded a variety of startups, including the nonprofit Venture for America that helped recent college graduates become entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Yang\u2019s latest nonprofit Humanity Forward has distributed $8 million to mostly New York residents during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope the Knicks do well for New York\u2019s sake,\u2019\u2019 Yang said. \u201cYou don\u2019t want your hometown team to be a laughingstock, which they\u2019ve been for some years. But I feel like my mental health improved the last few years not being a Knicks fan. It felt like a one-way street after a while. It felt like an abusive, bad relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been a hardcore Knicks fan all through my childhood,\u2019\u2019 Yang added. \u201cI grew up on the Ewing Knicks, John Starks, Charles Oakley. And I avidly kept up with them through thick and thin, through the lean Isiah Thomas era with Eddy Curry and soured on them when they dumped Jeremy Lin and started just making bad decisions with their leadership. I became a Nets fan slowly at first. Over time, it\u2019s become easier and easier as they\u2019ve become a better team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Knicks have missed the playoffs seven straight seasons \u2014 and have made the postseason just four times since 2001. Yang doesn\u2019t see it changing anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if Thibodeau does a great job, I wouldn\u2019t project a playoff run for them,\u2019\u2019 Yang said. \u201cHe\u2019s inheriting a roster that\u2019s so poorly assembled. The pieces don\u2019t fit. You\u2019re not even sure of the building blocks. RJ [Barrett] and Mitchell [Robinson] are starting points but after that it\u2019s very fuzzy. It\u2019s unclear if Tom Thibodeau is that figure. He strikes me more as compete-now, no-nonsense coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s concern as a fan, this administration will have a hard time succeeding because they\u2019ll be put in a position where they have to act like they\u2019re going to be competitive immediately. You have to know where you are. If you bring in a win-now coach and you\u2019re not ready to win now, is that the right move? And I\u2019m a Thibodeau fan from his Knicks days, Celtics days and Bulls days. I would\u2019ve been encouraged if the Knicks had taken a coach who had a track record of development of young players.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it all starts with Dolan, according to Yang.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames Dolan is one of the reasons that team is so difficult to root for,\u2019\u2019 Yang said. \u201cHe literally banned fans for being passionate [he banned them for heckling him]. He banned heroes like [Charles] Oakley. I believe his ownership is producing a culture that makes it difficult for the Knicks to produce a winning team despite the fact they have major advantages over any team in the league and have the New York market.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Dolan] handed the keys to Isiah, Phil [Jackson] and Steve Mills \u2014 all of whom were objectively terrible. That has to start at the top. The best thing you can say about [Dolan] is he\u2019s unafraid to spend money, but he hasn\u2019t been able to install for the franchise the right decision-maker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chants of \u201cSell the team\u2019\u2019 arose at the Garden before the coronavirus shut down the building. Forbes ranks the Knicks as the NBA\u2019s most valuable franchise at $4.6 billion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf James Dolan wanted to truly express his love for New York and his love for the Knicks, he would sell the team,\u2019\u2019 Yang said. \u201cHe would look up and say, \u2018I\u2019m clearly not the owner this team needs. The team needs a new owner.\u2019 There\u2019d be people willing to put up billions of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though 350 people working for MSG Entertainment were laid off this past week due to the ongoing pandemic, Dolan has said in the past he won\u2019t sell because he doesn\u2019t want to be viewed as a quitter. It\u2019s unclear if this economic crunch has changed his stance despite several of his venues on lockdown.<\/p>\n

Yang said he felt the Knicks hit the low point last summer when Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving spurned Broadway for Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the darkest time in Knicks history,\u2019\u2019 Yang said. \u201cEven in the depths of Isiah\u2019s and Phil\u2019s terribleness, there was a sense of what the team was trying to do. But last year you had no idea what they were trying to do. They didn\u2019t know. You had young players and brought in mercenaries on one-, two-year deals. I thought it would be such a disaster and I expressed it [on Twitter]. It was the worst Knicks team. Zero identity. Zero cohesion.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The Rose-Thibodeau ticket is something of a start, Yang said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an upgrade from the last leadership team,\u2019\u2019 Yang said. \u201cWhen you have a new leadership team, give them the benefit of the doubt.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

But it will be hard for Yang, who was at the Garden for Larry Johnson\u2019s four-point play in the 1999 playoffs, to come off the Nets at this juncture.<\/p>\n

Yang started to lean slightly away from the Knicks when they let Lin walk in 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt had been tough to be a fan before then, and when Linsanity was such a bright spot for every Knicks fan, even my now-wife, who never had watched, then the fact we lost Lin over money struck me as so ridiculous,\u2019\u2019 Yang said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s hard to give up on your childhood team. Even now I still keep up with what\u2019s going on with them. And I know when they\u2019re good, it\u2019s very good for New York. In the 1990\u2019s, it was an incredible unifying spirit, those Knicks playoff runs.\u2019\u2019\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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