Story on the nightmare of covering the Knicks

Agree with the second commenter: pure last-days-of-Nixon bullshit by Knicks management.

 

Heroes reference.

Actually, I think hiring Isiah Thomas is plenty. Any more is just overkill.

 

Don't give Nick Satan ideas!

 

wasn't the official reason for LB's dismissal that he gave an interview without a knicks pr person present? interesting stuff...

 

The huckster Dolans just don't get it and never will.

Prior to their reign of error, MSG was concerned about putting forth a quality product--be it the Rangers, Knicks, MSG Network, the Garden itself, Radio City, etc...etc...

MSG Network wasn't a house organ. Often the Rangers and Knicks broadcasters ripped the teams when they deserved it.

In the summer of 1994, the Dolans bought MSG and they begun doing things on the cheap. Since then they have become increasingly paranoid about the media. MSG Network no longer covers the teams with an independent eye. The broadcast teams are forced to blow sunshine up the viewers' asses no matter how the Knicks and Rangers are preforming. To get a one-on-one interview with a player? It's easier to get face time with the Pope.

It's an unlikable organization, MSG. At its highest levels are Napoleonic control freaks who have created an atmosphere of fear and distrust, while a once proud organization crumbles like Rome.

 

I didn't know Norm Nixon worked for the Knicks.

 

I grew up rooting for the Knicks. New York is a basketball city.

And no one cares anymore. New Yorkers are tired of watching the Knicks act like assholes. I have not watched a game in two years. That ain't going to change until Isiah and Marbury and Dolan are out. A lot of Knick fans feel the same way. It's tough to watch them and enjoy their talents, knowing how they treat people. It's a disgrace.

 

Frank Isola will be involved covering the Knicks long after Isiah Thomas's Reign of Error is ended.

 

I don't know. By the time Isiah's gone, the whole league may be bankrupt.

 

Other than the literally hundreds of millions of dollars they have blown out the window on players any damn fool could have told them would turn out to be utterly worthless.

 

Isola has been one of the best beat writers for a decade -- and it's unbelievable that he has gotten the stories still that he has when the team is following him like this. Especially when the NY Post has been the team's mouthpiece.

 

Barry Watkins on why there are no one-on-one interviews: "We want to make sure players and coaches and all executives can focus on the task on hand.”

Good thing. Imagine how bad they'd be if they weren't singularly focused.