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Good luck with that after what happened over the weekend.
The Knicks posted an ad on their website for season-ticket holders, asking them to commit to renewals by Feb. 28. A bold move, considering the team’s Eastern Conference-worst record of 10-45, but business is business.
Even bolder? The Knicks including a picture of KD in their pitch.
Seriously. They did that.
Lots of losing and no Kristaps Porzingis meant very little interest in Knicks games.
Ratings on MSG network dropped a massive 38 percent last season, according to figures released Monday by the Sports Business Journal.
"While we understand that some Knicks fans could be disappointed with tonight's news, we continue to be upbeat and confident in our plans to rebuild the Knicks to compete for championships in the future, through both the draft and targeted free agents," Mills said in the statement.
“I think a lot of fans look at the Knicks as a brand and expect these younger players, who in their lifetime don’t remember the Knicks being good," he said. "I didn’t grow up with the Knicks being good. Well, I remember the Knicks being in the Finals, but the kids after me didn’t see that. So the brand of the Knicks isn’t as cool to them as, let’s say, the Golden State Warriors or even the Lakers or the Nets now. The cool thing right now is not the Knicks.”
Durant told Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles of the Player’s Tribune podcast Knuckleheads that he was impressed by the Nets front office.
“Once I got into Brooklyn I had this view on how I wanted to approach this,” he told Richardson and Miles. “And I was like I had to totally throw that out the door because they got the championship mindset already.”
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