Day 304

Fresh Start_304: How is Phil Jackson still employed
If you have followed my podcast or this blog for some time now; you’d know that I have given up talking about the Mets for the 2017 baseball season. Everything that went on with the medical staff misdiagnosing stars Yoenis Cespedes and Noah Syndergaard, not forcing Syndergaard to get an MRI, allowing Harvey to do anything that he feels like doing up until not coming to the ballpark because of a “migraine,” and on and on.

The team that is flying right alongside the Mets in the loon bin are the New York Knicks. The Phil Jackson experiment has not worked out like James Dolan wanted. Jackson has single handedly torched any hope that the Knick fans had.

With the way Phil Jackson has treated the star of the team; Carmelo Anthony—even actively shopping him seemingly forgetting that Melo has a no-trade clause. Phil even trashed Melo in one of his last interviews at the end of the season. Working out current draft prospects—doing nothing but teaching them the triangle offense. Now, with the news and follow up that Jackson is actively shopping around the most marketable player on the team; Kristaps Porzingis. Porzingis tenor in The Garden hasn’t been classified as a fairy tale. Knicks fans boo’d Porzingis when Phil Jackson drafted Kristaps. Then the Knicks have had a bad taste in their mouth after Porzingis didn’t show up to his exist meeting but instead going home to Latvia.

As many people have said; he is the factory made stretch five and was gifted to the Knicks. Carmelo should leave New York and the train wreck that Phil Jackson has conducted throughout his tenure in New York. If Melo leaves, Porzingis is all that the Knick fans have left. If Phil Jackson gets his magical offer for Porzingis, the Knick fans will take to the streets of New York and burn down Madison Square Garden. Phil Jackson would also give simultaneous strokes to Spike Lee, Steven A. Smith and Michael Rapaport. Spike Lee might actually sell his season tickets if Porzingis isn’t on the Knicks roster this October.

With that said, the trade of Kristaps Porzingis would be the “Knick-yist” thing to do to trade Porzingis and continue to treat Melo like the 10th man off the bench. Jackson just missed the window to continue building the “Dream Team of 2011” by trading for Dwight Howard. The unbiased verdict that I have come too at this point about the Knicks is: “The Knicks are doomed until they part ways with Phil Jackson and if Jackson trades Porzingis before Phil gets his exist meeting out of New York the bureau of Manhattan will be no more.” I feel for you Knick fans; this is coming from a Net fan—just power through this. You have more fortitude than any fan base in the NBA.
Sources:(theringer.com, bleacherreport.com)

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