Knicks President Steve Mills Releases Pointless and Weak Statement on Epic Free Agent Failures

After the New York Knicks landed Julius Randle and Taj Gibson in free agency instead of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, team president Steve Mills released a statement that was intended to calm down angry fans. Instead, his largely pointless did nothing but further irritate an already irritable fanbase.

(They probably irritated Randle and Gibson, too, who must feel like a whole lot of chopped liver.)

The plan to build a team through targeted free agents seems like it should have gotten under way this offseason, when prime targets were available on the free agent market. After, countless years of being promised future success which has never come, the Knicks chose to send out another defensive, unnecessary message instead of keeping their heads down and continuing to give it their honest best on the open market.

There is just nothing positive that can be said about the New York Knicks right now, and it has been that way for quite some time. 20 years, essentially. With the Brooklyn Nets being able to create a winning team after a just a few years of strategic tanking, the Knicks' decades-long "rebuild" becomes even more laughable.

As Chris Carlin points out, Mills' message basically admitted failure mere hours into the NBA free agency period. For the foreseeable future, it appears that Knicks fans can only expect more of the same.