Chris Paul to Houston
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That's great, but the bigger news is that the Knicks fired Phil Jackson. Rumours around Toronto are that Raptors President Masai Ujiri is being targeted by the Knicks to replace Jackson. Yesterday Ujiri gave his GM portfolio to his assistant Bobby Webster. Many suspect this isn't a coincidence. Today the Raptors deny that Ujiri is about to join the Knicks and say that the new GM (Webster) will now report directly to Ujiri.
LA Clippers are getting a crazy number of good young bodies in this trade. Paul is 32 years old, maybe has another 2-3 great years left. The Rockets are not gonna sniff winning the title unless they get at least George and even then I still think the Warriors are the team to beat for the next 3-4 years maybe.
As for the Knicks, they have been a dysfunctional organization for a long time now and the problem is the owner Dolan. He is a meddler and still has not learned that meddling does not work, unless you are George Steinbrenner and actually hire talented people to take your orders and who have the balls to sometimes say no to them.
There was no way Phil Jackson in NYC was ever going to work, even though he is a revered former Knicks player, because the Knicks never had the personnel necessary to run the triangle (or the coaches who agree with and understand it). But there was no way Phil could say no to $17 million a year which is an absurd sum of money to pay any GM or President of Operations. Phil would probably give Dolan blow jobs for that money if that is all he had to do. Unfortunately that was likely just a small part of it. I did not think Phil handled the Porzingis or Anthony situations well, he used the press to throw guys under the bus and it did not really accomplish anything. If teams see you shitting on your own players how are they more tradeable? They are less tradeable.
As for the Knicks, they have been a dysfunctional organization for a long time now and the problem is the owner Dolan. He is a meddler and still has not learned that meddling does not work, unless you are George Steinbrenner and actually hire talented people to take your orders and who have the balls to sometimes say no to them.
There was no way Phil Jackson in NYC was ever going to work, even though he is a revered former Knicks player, because the Knicks never had the personnel necessary to run the triangle (or the coaches who agree with and understand it). But there was no way Phil could say no to $17 million a year which is an absurd sum of money to pay any GM or President of Operations. Phil would probably give Dolan blow jobs for that money if that is all he had to do. Unfortunately that was likely just a small part of it. I did not think Phil handled the Porzingis or Anthony situations well, he used the press to throw guys under the bus and it did not really accomplish anything. If teams see you shitting on your own players how are they more tradeable? They are less tradeable.
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