{"id":17094,"date":"2019-07-01T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bellyupsports.com\/?p=17094"},"modified":"2019-07-01T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:46:56","slug":"brooklyn-nets-officially-take-over-new-york-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellyupsports.com\/2019\/07\/brooklyn-nets-officially-take-over-new-york-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"James Dolan, You Officially Suck: Brooklyn Nets Officially Take Over New York Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For months (even years), basketball<\/a> fans in New York dreamed about the possibility of adding two of the top talents in the National Basketball Association (NBA)<\/a> today, as Kevin Durant was rumored to be leaving the Golden State Warriors after the 2019 season, as Kyrie Irving has always dreamt about playing on his home turf, as the 2016 NBA Champion is bread out of Orange, New Jersey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, basketball fans of New York, you’ve got your wish. Just not in the way you thought, or wanted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For almost 46 years, Knicks fans, including Stephen A. Smith, have been starving for a championship caliber team, led by one or two marquee talents, as the Knickerbockers haven’t sniffed gold since 1973. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since Kevin Durant was rumored to be leaving Golden State<\/a> following the 2019 season, last summer, James Dolan, the New York Knicks, and their fans have been salivating over the idea of adding the one player that could single-handedly change the disaster that is the organization’s current culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For years, Knicks fans have shared their displeasure with management as James Dolan’s club has been said to be failing the Knicks fanbase for what feels like two decades now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, the Knicks have suffered through failed experiments, such as hiring Phil Jackson as the team’s President in 2014, who damaged the Knicks brand even worse, by alienating players and strong-arming coaches into submission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the midst of a rather successful 2011 campaign, the club added Carmelo Anthony<\/a> in a blockbuster trade with the Denver Nuggets<\/a>, teaming him up with Amar’e Stoudemire<\/a>, in the hopes of reaching the promised land for the first time in nearly 30 years. The team followed the path of teams before them and fell short. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Missing Out On Zion Williamson<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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After finishing their season, tying their franchise-worst, 17-65 in 2019 (17-65 in 2014), the Knicks faithful would get their hopes up one more time, eyeing the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, with Zion Williamson, Duke standout Forward, being the headliner in this year’s event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If they drafted me, I’d love to play for the Knicks,” Williamson told New York Post’s Zach Braziller, as Zion’s step father, Lee Anderson, happened to be a huge Bernard King fan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully, Lee is also a big New Orlean Pelican fan, because that is where his step-son is headed after being drafted No. 1 overall by the Pelicans in the 2019 NBA Draft,<\/a> as the dream for Knicks fans would fall short again, snatching the No. 3 overall pick, which they would use on Zion’s Duke teammate, RJ Barrett. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though New York came up a bit short when it came to landing Zion, the hope in Times Square was that the Knicks would still be able to land NBA’s premiere star, in Kevin Durant, while also being able to reel in Kyrie Irving to join the 2x NBA Finals MVP in the process to bring winning basketball back to the big apple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things became so confident in New York, that Actor\/Comedian, Adam Sandler, even took it to NBC’s Saturday Night Live, pleading his desire for KD to wear the orange and white:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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YES YES pic.twitter.com\/OAS4zuZ5W7<\/a><\/p>— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) May 5, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>