RCM88x wrote:tsherkin wrote:MartinToVaught wrote:It's wild to think about how the Knicks have still won fewer playoff games/series than the Kings in the last 20 years even though the Kings haven't made the playoffs in 16 years.
I truly and honestly feel for the city of New York in that regard. Like, fans will be fans and everything, but the owner of that time is a disgrace to sports and they really should have been better. They have left the first round twice this century and made the playoffs but 7 times in 22 seasons. It's savage. It makes me even more grateful for the run we've had since 2014.
The Knicks make truckloads of money how is it the ownerships fault? They are doing their job by being extremely profitable.
Blame the fans for supporting it.
Kings are a different situation entirely.
The Knicks situation is ownership's fault because of the way they've chosen their GMs and the way they've interfered with them.
While I understand wanting to judge the owner simply based on the bottom line, the reality is that that's not the entirety of the owner's job.
Also: Let's not pretend that it's hard to make money as a long established franchise in Manhattan or that doing just as well financially in Sacramento is even remotely possible. I'm not a bleeding heart for small markets - I think a reasonable expectation is that you have on-court success in proportion to the size of your market, and that a small market should either be grateful to have a team, or give up - but it's certainly far more difficult to thrive in SAC than it is in NYC.
But as I've said, I still think Vivek is the worst owner in the league, even adjusting for things like degree of difficulty. Vivek's developed a reputation for firing his most successful coaches mid-season for aesthetic reasons, hiring the most incompetent GM of the 21st century, and conveying on no uncertain terms to players that he will eventually use their loyalty against them even when it's not in any way tactically wise.
