are u hearing all this about diddy buying the knicks? at first i figured it was another way to just bring has name back to the surface of tabs and papers, but even espn is reporting his attempt to purchase the knicks when he was announcing it on howard stern today. god let this happen, if he buys the team it would be in better hands then any other owner in the league(even cuban). he's a fan #1 and priority #1 would be winning, i'm sure he's disgusted seeing how his team his gone down falling past embarrassing and approaching laughing stock of the nba, (specially cause its new york i mean comon sh-t! the franchise has never sucked this bad)

Oh, It's sucked badly before...Just some cats were too young to know...THere's a reason we got the #1 in 85...

P-diddy knows how to make music but that don't guarantee he can turn around a basketball team just by getting rid of good character ball players.

Puff buying the Knicks is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. First of all, Stern won't let this happen. Puff doesn't know jack about hoops, plus the The NBA doesn't want an owner who might kick another owners a** at a meeting.

nwmy funny
but you dont know if puff doesn't know jack about ball unless you know puff.

Can he know less than dolan?

i guess stern don't want anymore cubans, but noone though he knew ball and he aint doing so bad.

What's up with this "Puff doesn't know anything about B-ball" path of thought. I dont think he is going to make himself GM, and even in the off chance that he did, he couldn’t do a worse job then Layden even if he tried.

Even though I am not the biggest P.Diddy fan in the world, you cant front on the guy…He is pretty versatile…Music, Restaurants, Clothes, he’s a smart guy. I don’t see how he would be any less successful then Cuban…Young owner injecting some crazy youthful energy into a fallen franchise. Every young exciting ballplayer would want to come and play for the Knicks!! (Young talent in an NY uniform??) And don’t play yourself, Stern would love it, not only would it create a serious buzz for the league and further carve the youth market niche for the NBA, but face it, the Knicks being pathetic like they are is doing nothing but hurting the league…He must be pulling out the few strands of hair left over the fact that NJ is in the finals every year and is the East’s best team

I would just love to see the look on Puff’s face to find out that he is paying 80 million dollars to Shandon Anderson and Howard Eisely alone…Classic

I cant get to excited, at this point it just seems like so pie in the sky talk from a heartbroken Knicks fan, albeit with a lot of paper.

Posted by prodson:

where is puffy supposed to get the money to buy the knicks

Tha cat is worth over a half billion dollars. Worse-caser scenario, he could always get a group together like Jordan did.

Posted by playa2:

P-diddy knows how to make music but that don't guarantee he can turn around a basketball team just by getting rid of good character ball players.

Its not about making music, and he isn't going to go out and get the players HIMSELF. Playa, think before you post. It will save you much torment from the other ppl here and save me the trouble of correcting your "below-par" posts.

As Flex said, he is interested in BUYING the Knicks. This means he will OWN THEM. He will hire ppl to RUN the team and find the talent, not do it HIMSELF. They will be better ppl more suited for the organization b/c if P Diddy owns it, he wants to make money off of it. He WILL NOT ACCEPT second-best like Dolan is now. He will be the Steinbrenner of the NBA, as I said in another thread.

This will also mean mean getting a GM that actually CARES about the moves he makes and gets TALENT not wastes of space and cap room. That is a day EVERY Knick fan hopes for.

(Including you Playa...at least I hope you wish for it like the rest of us, with all that pro-Allan Houston talk you promote around here, who knows....AH is the damn Cancer of the Knicks organization, while Laydown is the herpes....)

AND I GUARANTEE this: If he buys the Knicks, the first two ppl out on their butts are Laydown and Allan Houston. Maybe Chaney if he doesn't shape up.

[Edited by - masterjedidarkcaster on 07/23/2003 19:13:45]

Posted by knixphan:

Allan will be out when his contract is up - Puffy or no puffy.

While I believe this to be true, my friend, we can hope, can't we?

I mean if Diddy gets the team, ANYTHING is possible right?

puff is many things but he is an entrapreneur first. he knows the franchise, run the RIGHT way, will make money and probably save the nba in the process. to own one of the most storied franchise not only in the nba but in the world of sports is a worthy challenge. and i said it as well as others that a passionate fan like puff would lead the knicks out of this dump. like cuban, he will use every facet whether it is publicity stunts ( dairy queen?) or exposure to make this team an exciting place to play. then we won't see free agents not returning the our gm's call.

Posted by nwny:

This thread is cracking me up. "Yeah man, all the young players will want to come play for diddy!" Hysterical junk like that is usually posted by the same guys who say we should trade the whole team for Shaq.
Let me be more clear. David Stern and the rest of the owners are not going sell an NBA team to guy who is just as likely to be make great business deals as he is likely to get arrested shooting someone in nightclub. Did he shot someone? It doesn't matter the point is the NBA is a business and they don't need the players AND owners on trail. Damn! Mark Cuban is not going to be arrested for anything except wearing shirts that are too tight!

[Edited by - nwny on 07/23/2003 20:43:52]

Who the hell did Puffy shoot? Get ya facts straight, please. That man knows how to make money, and can turn the Knicks into a lucrative cash cow. At the same time his name WILL help bring players here, which will end up helping us WIN. Dammit, he CARES, and that's what we need. Mark Cuban is no better than him. Most players in the NBA know who he is and what he's capable of, which is a far cry from Dolan's backwards ***.