With the calendar flipping to June and the NBA Finals set to commence on Thursday night, we are now three weeks away from the draft and one month from the opening of free agency.
This ordinarily wouldn’t seem like the ideal time for an NBA team to be changing general managers, but the news this week that Scott Perry will be departing the Knicks’ front office after six years in the GM chair once his contract expires, isn’t as daunting as, say, Brian Cashman or Joe Schoen leaving the Yankees or the Giants with those transformative league events rapidly approaching.
The Knicks’ executive hierarchy is such that team president Leon Rose is the primary decision-maker, with trusted lieutenants William (World Wide Wes) Wesley and senior advisor Gersson Rosas further marginalizing Perry’s role in recent seasons.
Before you say it, yes, social media was afire this week that the Perry news hit the web only a few hours after the announcement by Bob Myers that he was stepping down from the president/GM role with the Warriors after winning four championships over 11 seasons.
