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Is Draymond nice with the hands? Is he mafia connected? He does stuff and no one rarely do anything back to him? It feels like they are reluctantly punishing him.
 
I have no problem with the Knicks office right now
I have a problem with Knicks fans.
I can't escape them.
They complained too much about Randle, RJ, and Thibs. And it aint that serious.
Knicks good 2 me and I agree with Scott Perry



Scott Perry would know from experience that making a trade for an unhappy NBA star does not always turn out as expected. The former New York Knicks general manager wants the franchise to assess all angles before dealing for any of the marquee players on their radar.

Perry: Several Marquee Players Failed to Find Contentment After Switching Teams

Perry had this to say in regards to the Knicks’ pursuits of Zion Williamson (New Orleans Pelicans) and Karl-Anthony Towns (Minnesota Timberwolves) running the risk of repeating history, as New York Post reporter Peter Botte reported:

“But I don’t have the arrogance necessarily to believe that a guy’s gonna come to our place and he’s gonna be happy just because. I like when players and people in general try to figure out the situation they’re gonna be in. And when you look at these disgruntled stars, how many of them have left a situation where everything was catered around them and gone to the new situation, and it’s the exact same thing for them?”

Perry used several prior examples to justify his statements. One of which is the recent trade that sent James Harden from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Los Angeles Clippers. Harden has thrown off the Clippers’ chemistry and they’ve gone 0-5 since his arrival.

Harden is a microcosm of an issue that has proliferated around the NBA. Superstars such as Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving have also taken advantage of player mobility to force their way out of teams and manufacture their own winning environments elsewhere.

Durant and Irving both made the move to the Brooklyn Nets leading up to the 2019-20 NBA season and failed to win a championship in less than three full seasons splitting up. Perry even went as far back as Dwight Howard forcing his way out of the Orlando Magic back in 2012 and never finding a situation that was as good for him afterward.
 
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