The Knicks could have traded Porzingis before the 2017 draft to Phoenix for Devin Booker and been in position to draft Lauri Markkanen, according to sources.

Phil was fired for many reasons but timing has to suggest the rift with KP as real.
We get booker, no Hardaway, and Markkanen at Forward.
Did Dolan fire Phil in part because he wanted to trade the franchise player?
WE thought at the time this was a good thing as fans?

Nalod is still trying to figure the logic of what went down this past week. My take is KP might have stretched the organization to the point of enough is enough! sure he wants to "win", and KP should think of himself as part of the solution. ALso what can he do to help. If not, perhaps after moving Hornacek and Phil this dude who is sidelined is thinking of himself and his image first and foremost. Every tweek, internet post hypersensitive. When Fiz said "Light running" perhaps he meant in the gym with little cuts. KP gets offended and posts of him running on ta track. very different.

In the end im disappointed in both the team and KP for not making it work. I suppose we have to lay blame on someone but Its illogical still how the knicks messed up, and why KP was so unreasonable.
Maybe Janis made an error by taking things too far and knicks called his bluff.

Nalod wrote:

The Knicks could have traded Porzingis before the 2017 draft to Phoenix for Devin Booker and been in position to draft Lauri Markkanen, according to sources.

This today from Berman.

Phil was fired for many reasons but timing has to suggest the rift with KP as real.
We get booker, no Hardaway, and Markkanen at Forward.
Did Dolan fire Phil in part because he wanted to trade the franchise player?
WE thought at the time this was a good thing as fans?

Nalod is still trying to figure the logic of what went down this past week. My take is KP might have stretched the organization to the point of enough is enough! sure he wants to "win", and KP should think of himself as part of the solution. ALso what can he do to help. If not, perhaps after moving Hornacek and Phil this dude who is sidelined is thinking of himself and his image first and foremost. Every tweek, internet post hypersensitive. When Fiz said "Light running" perhaps he meant in the gym with little cuts. KP gets offended and posts of him running on ta track. very different.

In the end im disappointed in both the team and KP for not making it work. I suppose we have to lay blame on someone but Its illogical still how the knicks messed up, and why KP was so unreasonable.
Maybe Janis made an error by taking things too far and knicks called his bluff.

Think you have to factor in the knee injury. Big difference when comparing the two. KP had a serious knee injury after Phil was fired. That definitely created concern and ignited trade thoughts. Did not understand, at the time, why Phil, who traded away everyone and hit the restart button for a high draft pick, would want to trade that draft pick who was playing so well? Thought it was an ego thing.

Coming around on the fact this was inevitable. KP was leaning to moving on. When Knicks blinked on extending him due to injury KP had an easy decision. Understandable that Knicks were concerned about giving a max to an injury prone player coming off major knee surgery. Hope it works out for us.

SupremeCommander wrote:it's possible that he did interfere but I don't think it really matters... part of the reason the Knicks traded KP was because KP and Janis were butt hurt about how Phil treated them

Even though you hate Phil Jackson, it doesn't mean everyone against him is right.

Knicksfan wrote:

Nalod wrote:

The Knicks could have traded Porzingis before the 2017 draft to Phoenix for Devin Booker and been in position to draft Lauri Markkanen, according to sources.

This today from Berman.

Phil was fired for many reasons but timing has to suggest the rift with KP as real.
We get booker, no Hardaway, and Markkanen at Forward.
Did Dolan fire Phil in part because he wanted to trade the franchise player?
WE thought at the time this was a good thing as fans?

Nalod is still trying to figure the logic of what went down this past week. My take is KP might have stretched the organization to the point of enough is enough! sure he wants to "win", and KP should think of himself as part of the solution. ALso what can he do to help. If not, perhaps after moving Hornacek and Phil this dude who is sidelined is thinking of himself and his image first and foremost. Every tweek, internet post hypersensitive. When Fiz said "Light running" perhaps he meant in the gym with little cuts. KP gets offended and posts of him running on ta track. very different.

In the end im disappointed in both the team and KP for not making it work. I suppose we have to lay blame on someone but Its illogical still how the knicks messed up, and why KP was so unreasonable.
Maybe Janis made an error by taking things too far and knicks called his bluff.

This is just playing the “according to a source” reports game, but the ones that I read mentioned that NY wanted Booker in the deal but he was never put on the table by the Suns. Instead, they were offering the pick that would turn into Jackson.

Still, back then trading Porzingis would’ve been a crazy proposition. This was before his injury and at a time when the organization really felt that by getting rid of Phil Jackson, things would have a chance at getting better with Porzingis and his camp.

Not like today, when you have to add all the previous tension, the interview skipped, the injury, the recovery, the slow disconnection from KP, Janis seeing players signed even with injury concerns and then the AD trade request.

Yes, that was my recollection as well

Nalod wrote:

The Knicks could have traded Porzingis before the 2017 draft to Phoenix for Devin Booker and been in position to draft Lauri Markkanen, according to sources.

This today from Berman.

Phil was fired for many reasons but timing has to suggest the rift with KP as real.
We get booker, no Hardaway, and Markkanen at Forward.
Did Dolan fire Phil in part because he wanted to trade the franchise player?
WE thought at the time this was a good thing as fans?

Nalod is still trying to figure the logic of what went down this past week. My take is KP might have stretched the organization to the point of enough is enough! sure he wants to "win", and KP should think of himself as part of the solution. ALso what can he do to help. If not, perhaps after moving Hornacek and Phil this dude who is sidelined is thinking of himself and his image first and foremost. Every tweek, internet post hypersensitive. When Fiz said "Light running" perhaps he meant in the gym with little cuts. KP gets offended and posts of him running on ta track. very different.

In the end im disappointed in both the team and KP for not making it work. I suppose we have to lay blame on someone but Its illogical still how the knicks messed up, and why KP was so unreasonable.
Maybe Janis made an error by taking things too far and knicks called his bluff.

Phil's sense might have been to instinctively to trade him for assets and not put all the eggs in one basket.
Its illogical that KP would be so put off by not getting a max deal while recovering from ACL and it gives knicks 10mil more to work with, to make the team better.
There were rumors that KP was put off by not playing this season. OK, but now Dallas comes in with the same thing.
Is Dallas can obviously pay him the most but by KP just signing for the qualified offer it give Dallas some room to not lock into him if he breaks.
THis dude if not motivated by that kind of money is playing a very different financial game than any before him. I wonder if he has any designs to go back to Europe?

Phil was turned off by that total disrespect, remember when he said

"I don't think I've ever had a player over 25 years of coaching, maybe 30, not coming to an exit meeting," he said, adding that he "had a good relationship with Kristaps over the last two years so it was kind of surprising."

Well, when you main player skips out on you, naturally teams will start calling, and all sorts of red flags goes up.

Mills (who I thought was the main reason he skipped out on the meeting, NOT Phil) and KP's relationship has always been shady..

So he probably did go to Dolan, and told him, this kid is tripping, and I feel like he's trying to dictate how we should run our organization, he doesn't seem to be on board, and this is just bad for business..

DOLAN is always going to have the final word because it's his team, and all owners have the final say, regardless of how stupid the are

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/06/23/celtics-ainge-porzingis-trade-talk-blown-out-of-proportion/

Jackson reportedly asked Danny Ainge for the third overall pick on Thursday (which Boston used to draft Duke forward Jayson Tatum), next year’s Brooklyn pick, plus Jaylen Brown and Jae Crowder. That’s one heck of a king’s ransom, a price tag that few will fault Ainge for turning down.

But just how serious were the trade talks between the Celtics and Knicks, and how much of it was just social media overdrive?

“I don’t comment on trade rumors. I will say this; it was a little blown out of proportion. But I’ll leave it at that,” Ainge told reporters at the conclusion of the draft. “A lot more talk by you guys.”

Vmart wrote:ESPN lead a mob mentality against Phil Jackson mainly leading the charge was Steven A. The fans on board treated Phil very poorly and he wasn’t deserving of the hate he received.

Ummmmm.....Yes he was!!!