Draymond Green walks back his prediction that the Knicks faced 15 years of misery. He explains his old take using the Trail Blazers as an example, then acknowledges the Knicks hired a championship coach, added Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns, and apologizes for getting it wrong.
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Throughout this season and seasons past, I've expressed my doubt in the Knicks team making a finals run. I'd like to revisit those takes and see if I'd like to double down, make some edits, or flat out apologize. May 2024. In the Eastern Conference, you can get to the conference finals à la— It's mid. Atlanta Hawks with like playing very mid teams. Another team that did this, to give you some perspective on this, was Portland Trail Blazers years ago when they had Al-Farouq Aminu, Alan Crabbe. They had all those guys and they went to the Conference Finals. They never did anything again. However, you know what they did? They ran off and paid all of those guys because they thought they had a team that had a chance. And, and it was a fluke. That's what the Knicks are setting y'all up for right now. And it'll be probably another 15 years of misery that we all will sit around and laugh at Knicks fans. Apologize for this one. And I apologize for this one because I said 15 years of misery. And the reality is, is you all fired your coach and you brought in a coach that won a championship with us, which was great and the right idea. And you all went and got more players like Mikal Bridges, Karl-Anthony Towns. Yeah. So I'd apologize for that one.