LeBron Injury Update and Giannis Fit! Big Questions

LoweOkay, thing number two.

LoweI think I can already tell by the Twitter reactions that fans, and maybe this is your point about Dolan, that there's a segment of Knicks fans who are mad at Cat for not sacrificing for the team the way Brunson famously did two years ago when he took an extension.

LoweI think there's a misunderstanding about that Brunson extension. He signed the absolute max that he could sign at that time in the summer of 2024. He did not, quote, take less in terms of what he could have signed at that moment. He took less than he could have gotten if he had waited a year, become a free agent and signed a five -year max deal, which he chose not to do.

LoweHe chose to lock up the money, help the team's financial flexibility, and I think he'll probably get the 35 % max the next time his deal has come. But I don't think it's fair to throw at Cat, hey, Brunson, Brunson took less. You should take less too. He did not really take less in the sort of literal sense.

LoweNumber three, I've had a bunch of people tell me this in the last two or three weeks, and I kind of tossed it away as like, maybe I'm half brainwashed by the second apron. maybe um ever i i just know that their agents talking to me and nobody really likes james dolan i just i like this is the team that should spend over the second apron you just won the championship you have a championship team you don't just print

Lowemoney you like live on top of a pile of money from the rangers from the garden from the knicks from tax breaks um this is this is the whole reason you should be doing this is to have this kind of team and i and i've had a lot lot of people say to me like you should be hitting james dolan harder for not spending more to keep this team together i'm like a second apron respect i think those people

Loweare right and i don't i'm not saying catch just get the max but i'm saying this is like uh you have the city's goodwill for the first time in a long time you have a team that is objectively a championship team you've already let it slough away one valuable piece that went to your rival boston um i just you know like this is the whole point of having a team i don't i don't i don't i think james dolan's