It's truly hard to fathom that KD and KT go down with major (potentially career-altering) injuries in back-to-back games. And yet...here we are. Not sure what this says about the Warriors training staff and upper management. Burning down two megastars right as they approach free agency just feels...well, weird...if not suspicious. That said, it would be odd for them to both be retained given the luxury tax implications.
What I am really wondering about is how these two events affect the trajectory of the Knicks' free agency plans. Clearly the "add two superstars to the youth movement" approach is out the window. No healthy superstar will want to wait a year for either KD or KT to recover. Windows don't stay open that long, and anyone can get injured at any time...even in the Finals.
So what's the new deal here...do we do the draft pick collecting in exchange for bad one year paper? As someone else pointed out, there aren't that many teams with whom this approach would work, and none of the opportunities look all that enticing.
It's amazing how the Knicks get screwed even if they don't do it to themselves. I'm starting to bite on the notion that there really is a Dolan curse, even if he's not involved in the troublemaking. FFS, it's hard to be a Knicks fan.