Vmart wrote:Only thing I could think of is coaching change coming soon. Dolan probably told Grunwald to can Woody. Gunwald being a very good friend probably said he can't do that, Dolan demotes Grunwald and get someone who will can Woody.

Good theory. That's how Dolan operates.

We just gotta be cool as fans. Law of attraction and all that. We tend to get too negative and then some crazy stuff happens. We can't let this take us into the heel we were in under Layden Cuz that gave us Isiah.

Be cool yall. We should be good.

I do feel a major starphuch on the horizon. Phil Jackson and probably a major move for a player on the downside of their career to help Melo. Lakers suck and a team like Memphis doesn't want to pay their players. Marc Gasol already has his replacement on the roster after trading for that kid from Denver. Kobe loves nyc and recently talked about coming full circle to msg with the all star game in 2015. Interesting.

We Just have to stay positive. Things will workout for us

callmened wrote:I know Grunwald did a relatively good job taking over. He made some moves despite only having $3mill to play with this summer. I also know that Mills was around during the dark yrs of the knicks in the 1990s.

I'm trying to stay positive. I'm just searching for the upside of this move

Well, it could've been Scott Layden lol

MSG3 wrote:The only thing positive I can think of is that Mills is thought to be a guy that can really bring in talent in free agency. So this must be a move to, in the best case scenario, team Melo up with LeBron. If that doesn't work, team Melo up with the best possible free agents.

All taht said, this move sucks. Grunwald has been doing a good job. He and Donny didn't get what they deserved.

Grunwald? No, he deserved better. Walsh? He should've never been hired in the first place especially with Jerry Colangelo, Jerry West and Kerry Pritchard available.

the timing is not so curious to me now that i think about it this way:

we used grunnwald to do the moves for us this off season the roster is set and there is really not much more shaking and baking to do,

so we pretty much have oru team, we're going with it, we are who we are for the next 2 seasons, which is good

All right - I will do as the title of this thread says - look for the positive regarding Steve Mills. I'm putting on a Nixluva hat.

Upside to Steve Mills -
Mills is intelligent; graduated Princeton; more of a finance and promotions guy with lots of high level experience in this field.

He is a New Yorker from birth - "Mills was born on October 6, 1959 in Roosevelt, New York. His father was a teacher and basketball coach. He grew up a Knicks fan and lived around the corner from NBA legend Julius Erving. Mills and his wife Beverly live in South Orange, New Jersey and have two daughters"

"Mills was named Black Enterprise's Corporate Executive of the Year in 2003, and was listed as one of the Top Front Office Team Executives on Black Enterprise's 50 Most Powerful Blacks in Sports in 2005."

"In 2009, Mills left MSG and joined Magic Johnson Enterprises where he helped create the Athletes & Entertainers Wealth Management Group, LLC (A&E).[5] of which he was a partner."

Mills' basketball experience:
-"He played Princeton basketball under the tutelage of legendary coach Pete Carril."
-"Mills played professional basketball in Ecuador for a year."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mills_(sports_executive)

The problem with Mills:
Mills is Dolan's choice with no reason nor explanation for a front office sudden change;
and he is Dolan's yes man.

How do you build a consistent winning franchise when blowing through GM's and coaches every 2-3 years? Then you hire a guy who has 0 experience in the job he is hired to do. He does have experience as a team president, for our team and his tenure were the worst years in the history of the franchise off and on the court.

This thought always creeps up on me and I try to shoo it away out of shear depression just thinking of it but, I will never ever see my favorite basketball team win a title as long as James Dolan owns it

The Knicks are what they are. Middle of the road, average and will be exiting the first round again. Dolan, does things a certain way. The wrong way, without class or thought.

We didn't need to hire anyone in order to resign Melo. He wants to be the man, he wants to play in NY, he wants his money. He isn't giving up the extra year to sign with anyone. The Lakers have little to offer he's already a major star in this league going to the lakers isn't going to grow his shine.

We can look forward to the same team, with the same problems, exiting every year in the first round while ticket prices go up and decision are made without reason