I can understand Zion not wanting to go to NOLA, but why the fukk would he want to go to NYK?
A legit NBA superstar is going to receive endorsement deals and opportunities anywhere they get drafted. Knicks have been a dumpster-fire and haven't won a title in a two generations. Almost like he was watching ESPN and listening to the shoe companies too much.
Obviously the media desperately wanted him in NYC but Dolan is still there. He'd have the same issues in NYC only magnified 10x.
I think these deliberately obtuse, disingenuous, feigned attempts at acting objective are so obnoxious. They're professional athletes, stop acting like going to a winning team is the ONLY thing that matters. If winning is all that mattered, all free agents would be going to San Antonio because they've been a beacon of winning for the same amount of time the Knicks have been the dumpster fire they've been for the last 20 years.
They're professional athletes. If all things were fair and there was no salary cap, how many legit star players, irrespective of endorsements, do you think star players would WILLINGLY play in Milwaukee? Memphis? Oklafukkinghoma? They've been playoff teams within the last decade, right? One of them has been to the Finals in the last decade - they have a winning culture, right?
You got small town guys that like small time cities. Great. Nothing wrong with that. And if that's their vibe, they'll go there - but most these guys are staying in these small markets because that's where they'll get the most money on their playing contract and don't want to fukk that money up. And that's by league design, so fine, cool. But there are plenty of players RIGHT NOW that can look at a New York, in its CURRENT context, not the years prior and say, I could go there, possibly build my own team with the cap space they have there, play for a large market, WIN, AND live in a big city in my 20s and live life differently than I would than somewhere in the Midwest. Enjoy things outside of basketball. The night life. The environment. Things that can also dictate how someone chooses where to play or where they would want to play. It's not just some hype, it just might be some of these guys see big cities like New York and LA just as any other fukking person in the country "looking to make it" does.
People don't like NYC and think it's overrated? Fine. Think Knick fans are delusional? Fair. But please don't act like winning is all that matters to these players and it's so confusing and inconceivable that they would want to play in New York. Stop it.
you just gonna pencil in 25/10 breh?
