When it comes to the worst owner of an NBA team, many people may think of Knicks owner James Dolan, who is a veritable rich second generation whose father went to New York in the 1950s and founded the largest cable company in New York with the addition of luck and brains. And our protagonist James Dolan is a "stupid boy", the solid family situation gives him everything he wants, in his eyes, the whole world can be dolan family.
James Dolan wants to be a football player, and wants to be a guitarist, college did not finish to start a business, after failure to go to inherit the family business, there are many playboys in American high society, James Dolan is one of the alcoholics, gambling, prostitution, drug use, which makes Charles Dolan have no choice but to send him to the drug rehabilitation center to rehabilitate, after coming out of the James Dolan also inexplicably inherit the family inheritance, now he is the entire Dolan family of the people.
But James Dolan is not satisfied with the status quo, he believes that he should develop a variety of industries, so he set his sights on the sports industry, in 1999 Dolan bought the NBA League New York Knicks, NHL League New York Rangers, WNBA New York Liberty, and the American Hockey League's Connecticut Beluga Whales all back, and he was also responsible for managing and operating these teams, but the teams led by this dude, all of them were not good, they were all bottom teams.
Since he took over the team in 1997, the team has changed 14 head coaches in 21 years, 8 general managers have only entered the playoffs 6 times, players, coaches, managers have changed one after another, the boss has been stable for more than 20 years, David Stern has personally met with James Dolan, and criticized him in person for the poor operation of the team, Dolan's accusations against Stern are helpless.
Although the team's poor performance does not affect the money in the slightest, it should be known that the Knicks' market value ranks first in the NBA, and last March, Clippers owner Ballmer bought the Inglewood Arena from him for $400 million, and the Inglewood Arena was Dolan's investment in the arena at the time of $23.5 million, and eight years later made $300 million, and the Knicks' market value has soared from $30 million at that time to $4.6 billion, ranking first in the league. The 60th annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held in New York, and the venue was at Madison Garden Plaza.
Since Dolan is so good at business, is he unwilling to throw money so that the team does not produce results? Dolan was a generous boss willing to spend a fortune to win, giving Alain Houston a six-year $ 100 million contract in 2001. At that time, many experts commented that Alan Houston was not even worth $75 million for 6 years, but Dolan gave. Houston retired after only four seasons, when he had as much as $40 million left on his contract. There are also Knicks coaching teams Isaiah Thomas, Larry Brown, Don Chaney, Lannie Wilkens, etc. are all coaches signed by the Knicks at a high price, and the results are not ideal, and they take a lot of salaries from the Knicks every year after being fired by Dolan.
And he is very good to the players, whether it is clothing, food, housing, travel is given the best treatment, including daily training is to find the best trainer to train players, and he put out harsh words to the media regardless of the performance of the Knicks and Rangers, prohibiting the media network to criticize the players of both teams, every offseason will also give players bonuses to thank them for their hard work, ask such a boss who does not like? But the team is really too bad to help.