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WOODMANnYk
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12/24/2006  11:18 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/storyButcher of Broadway

James Dolan is Apple's biggest worm of 2006

BY FILIP BONDY
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER


Even Garden boss James Dolan can't watch what he's done to World's Most Famous Arena.

We've had our eye on James Dolan for quite some time. We've glimpsed him growing up inside the covert catacombs of Cablevision Corporation; spied him as he looked on sleepily from his front-row seats at Knick games; heard him, secondhand, make those futile guarantees about Ranger playoff appearances and giggled to ourselves as he drew smiley faces on the empty seats at the world's most famous arena (not counting, we always assume, the Colosseum of Rome).

Until now, we haven't really had the right title to bestow upon Mr. Dolan, besides CEO of Cablevision and chairman of the Garden. He required a fancy moniker and some hardware, for sure, since he wasn't about to win anything on his own.

Here it is, then, finally: James Dolan is The News' New York Anti-Sportsman of the Year for 2006. He is Sisyphus without the romance, forever rolling his basketball up the side of his rounded building, even as the place crumbles about him.

We give him this much: Dolan is no cheapskate. He has thrown company money around with great vigor, randomly, to no good effect.

He paid Allan Houston $100 million in 2001, when nobody else was going to come near that offer. He will pay Larry Brown nearly $30 million, altogether, for winning 23 games. That's more than $1 million per victory, for a coach who never wanted any part of his miscast roster. To make up for all this, Dolan rapidly escalates the price of Knick seats and pushes the press out of press row.

His hallways are filled with poisonous intrigue. He dumped an executive, Anucha Browne Sanders, when she filed a sexual harassment suit against Isiah Thomas.

 He has waged boardroom battles with his own father.

And all of this would be long forgotten and forgiven, if only there were some big victories.

Alas, under Dolan's supervision, the salary-capped Knicks haven't won a playoff series since 2000. The Rangers haven't won a single playoff game since 1997, despite their own bulging payroll.

This is a good year to anti-honor Dolan. Until now, he actually served a constructive purpose, for his self-serving campaign against the land-gobbling Jets Stadium proposal. But now that project is dead, and his audience is running low on patience.

Dolan recently said he would consider selling the Garden, if only the monetary offer were irresistible. There is no offer here from the News. Just an anti-award and a plaintive cry: Dolan, cast thyself from the Garden![/b]


Only way for us to see a another NBA championship banner @ the garden is to have a new owner take over the team. Until then, it won't happen..

[Edited by - woodmannyk on 12-24-2006 1:06 PM]

[Edited by - woodmannyk on 12-24-2006 1:07 PM]
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SugarRayRichardson
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12/24/2006  11:31 AM
Thats kind of a hatchet job. I think the sexual suit may have been after she was fired. I'm not sure. The NY Rangers are actually under the salary cap and have been for 2 years.
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12/24/2006  1:04 PM
Im taLKING Knicks, knicks knicks!! Dolan has destroyed the winning culture that was associated with the knicks.

He done a huge disservice to the city. We as Knicks fans do not deserve this type of garbage.

It must stop but as long as loser, jinx Dolan is around, it won't change...
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12/24/2006  1:14 PM
Posted by SugarRayRichardson:

Thats kind of a hatchet job. I think the sexual suit may have been after she was fired. I'm not sure. The NY Rangers are actually under the salary cap and have been for 2 years.

Overall, the article makes its point. Your right that those two facts are incorrect. However, regarding the Rangers, you have to remember that they did hugely benefit from the strike. If not for the strike, they'd likely still be over the cap.

Overall, Dolan has done a bad job, because with him in charge, there's no checks and balances system. If the GM wants to make a move, Dolan doesn't know enough to know whether the move makes good sense or not.
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12/24/2006  2:18 PM
Posted by Solace:
Posted by SugarRayRichardson:

Thats kind of a hatchet job. I think the sexual suit may have been after she was fired. I'm not sure. The NY Rangers are actually under the salary cap and have been for 2 years.

Overall, the article makes its point. Your right that those two facts are incorrect. However, regarding the Rangers, you have to remember that they did hugely benefit from the strike. If not for the strike, they'd likely still be over the cap.

Overall, Dolan has done a bad job, because with him in charge, there's no checks and balances system. If the GM wants to make a move, Dolan doesn't know enough to know whether the move makes good sense or not.

The Rangers lostt 1 single contract based on the strike. Bobby Holiks. The Rangers had a monster fire sale of vets for propsects and draft picks once they were eleiminated the season before the strike. They played their last 15 games or so with basically a farm club
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12/24/2006  7:14 PM
Great article!
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12/24/2006  9:02 PM
It is a good article, but it's really nothing new. I was expecting to hear a story that would anger the hell outta me.
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12/25/2006  1:50 AM
bode miller was a runner up? this guy is an idiot.
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12/25/2006  2:42 AM
Posted by SugarRayRichardson:
Posted by Solace:
Posted by SugarRayRichardson:

Thats kind of a hatchet job. I think the sexual suit may have been after she was fired. I'm not sure. The NY Rangers are actually under the salary cap and have been for 2 years.

Overall, the article makes its point. Your right that those two facts are incorrect. However, regarding the Rangers, you have to remember that they did hugely benefit from the strike. If not for the strike, they'd likely still be over the cap.

Overall, Dolan has done a bad job, because with him in charge, there's no checks and balances system. If the GM wants to make a move, Dolan doesn't know enough to know whether the move makes good sense or not.

The Rangers lostt 1 single contract based on the strike. Bobby Holiks. The Rangers had a monster fire sale of vets for propsects and draft picks once they were eleiminated the season before the strike. They played their last 15 games or so with basically a farm club

The reason the Rangers have been under the cap for the last 2 years? The NHL implemented a HARD CAP after the lockout. The Rangers have had no choice but to be under the cap along with every other team in the NHL.

As for the fire sale, you don't think every team saw the hard cap coming? You don't think ownership had a clue about what Bettman was going to be pushing for? The Rangers had no choice but to start trading away high priced players and getting cheaper, younger players to replace them.

Dolan said in his Mike and the Mad Dog interview that Sather was the first to start selling off high priced players and bringing in younger ones. That's true but he failed to mention that the reason they did this was because they were already out of the playoff picture. The other teams who were already out of playoff contention weren't in the same situation as the Rangers with a ridiculous payroll so they didn't have to sell off high priced players. And the ones who did have high payrolls had legitimate Cup aspirations so they obviously weren't going to sell off their best players. Again, Dolan misrepresents the truth and assumes that everyone is an idiot so he can get away with it.

Can people please stop using the Rangers as some kind of legitimacy for Dolan's madness. It has ZERO to do with the Knicks situation.
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12/26/2006  10:07 AM


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