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  • Gordon Hayward has opted out of his $34.2 million contract with Boston Celtics for the 2020 21 season, making him an unrestricted free agent beginning at 6 p.m. Eastern.

  • That's today.

  • Well, check out the New York Post back page.

  • The Knicks could be trying to say, Hey, two.

  • Hey, a word.

  • Team president Leon Rosen Company created a ton of room and cap space this week over 40 million, to be exact.

  • Parting ways with six players they drafted forward will be topping at number eight this week.

  • He is a native New Yorker from Brooklyn.

  • N B A champion Kendrick Perkins back here with us.

  • Big perk.

  • Always good to see you.

  • But, Max, I'm going to start with you your former team that you abandoned for the new shiny thing in California.

  • Mack says Leon Rose started to turn the Knicks around.

  • Best day of my life.

  • Yeah.

  • No, no.

  • Well, are you gonna answer?

  • The past are heading in the right.

  • Just brag about how you became a Lakers fan where they're heading in the right.

  • Are they heading in the right direction?

  • The answer is yes.

  • They're heading in the right direction.

  • They have so long to go.

  • It's not even funny.

  • And surely James Dolan will lose patience on the way and blow it all up again.

  • So is there any championship hopes in the future?

  • For Knicks fans, the answer is no.

  • But are they going to be better than they were?

  • Well, hard.

  • How hard is that like that?

  • They're always that they have bad luck in the draft lottery, and they don't know how to identify talent, and they haven't been able to really develop it, either.

  • And when they somehow luck into it, they lose it for nothing.

  • Jeremy Lin They lucked into right?

  • And, obviously Kristaps Porzingis actually a star player.

  • They basically lose for nothing, so it ain't gonna work.

  • But is it good to hire a coach that makes guys play hard?

  • Yes, it is.

  • Is topping a good pick?

  • I think he waas um, is signing Hayward.

  • You know, an above average player, but not an All Star anymore to a Max contract over paying for him so you can get some veteran leadership, some passing, some scoring in the open court, stuff like that.

  • Yeah, it's a step in the right direction.

  • Um, the Knicks will never win a championship.

  • So long as Dolan is the owner, he will grow weary of this process eventually.

  • But coming from the very, very bottom, there is literally nowhere to go but up.

  • But to be fair to the current regime, they have managed to somehow destroy that theory a time.

  • So you're like, How could they go down?

  • They've managed to burrow even further.

  • So at least this is not that it appears to me, no.

  • Nobody wants to hear what you have to say about the New York is.

  • Why don't you just pack your bags and go to L.

  • A.

  • Why don't you do that, Max?

  • I mean, you betrayed this already, Max.

  • You betrayed us already.

  • I mean, listen, I understand.

  • I understand how bad the New York Knicks are.

  • We all know how bad the New York Knicks are.

  • Okay, But I mean, damn, you're gonna sit up there and leave New York.

  • You go to the Lakers, you become a Laker fan while being a Laker fan.

  • You sit up there and you ignore that LeBron is the best in the world.

  • Proclaimed Kawhi Leonard to be so picked the Clippers to win the championship.

  • You're wrong.

  • You just say oops and then Alright first, By the way, while I'm living back in New York, let me talk about the New York Knicks like trash.

  • Nobody wants to hear that from you.

  • Why don't you pack your bags and l A Why don't you do that?

  • Makes you have betrayed New Yorkers.

  • Now, let me say this.

  • I understand what you're saying about during that truth.

  • Like, be quiet.

  • I'm talking.

  • Be quiet.

  • I'm talking.

  • I said you're right.

  • I agree with you about Dolan.

  • Dammit, It hurts.

  • Okay, it hurts.

  • But the point is, you're right.

  • Here is the thing that I'm trying to say.

  • Can we crawl before we walk?

  • Can we do that when a baby sits up there and stands up for the first time, Even though they're wobbling, aren't you happy to see him stand up?

  • I mean, my God, the New York Knicks have stunk up the joint for so long Now we got Leon Rose.

  • First of all, sound basketball, mind we got the ultimate recruiter in worldwide, William Wesley.

  • You get rid of seven different players to create $40 million in cap space.

  • You draft the box office attraction and obey topping, even though I thought it should have been Halliburton.

  • But I know you'll be topping this Brooklyn born Brooklyn bread and he could play and he's a Skywalker.

  • But I mean, damn you know what if the New York Knicks made the playoffs?

  • I think that's because it's been so bad.

  • That might be a cause for parade.

  • So let's stop talking about you talk about and let's keep myself and to say, Yo, maybe, just maybe, just maybe.

  • Someday soon they might make the playoffs, so we'll have a reason to look at them with some degree of respect.

  • Can we just stop there and stop mention the championship that we know this far, far, far away?

  • Can we do that?

  • Per Can I just say something?

  • Stephen hurt?

  • E understand?

  • E understand.

  • Stephen is analogy when a baby when the baby starts to stand after crawling or a baby starts to crawl.

  • But I'm 47 years old.

  • The Knicks have not won a championship in my lifetime.

  • If a 47 year old starts to crawl, you might be like damn you should be walking and running around by now, right?

  • Why don't you Just what this is.

  • Ah, 47 year old Chris Lee.

  • Go get out.

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Gordon Hayward has opted out of his $34.2 million contract with Boston Celtics for the 2020 21 season, making him an unrestricted free agent beginning at 6 p.m. Eastern.

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