Because of course, when you have a homegrown young GM who has never worked in another front office, won executive of the year in 2021, broke an 11-year streak of missing the playoffs, all under the watch of the biggest tightwad owner in the league, you definitely need the guy who has never GM'ed a team that has won more than 39 games, and whose signature move was trading two first rounders (#2 and #9) for Eddy Curry. And when you're dealing with the fallout of an owner who was fined $10M and essentially being forced to sell because of how he created an unsafe work environment laced with sexual harassment, I definitely want to make sure I get the guy who was at the center of a sexual harassment lawsuit that resulted in a federal judgement of $11.5M against the Knicks. Had to triple check that this wasn't some impersonator on twitter, because this is kind of insane from an optics standpoint, and Isiah has done absolutely nothing to prove he's an asset to a front office. For the Rockets, this does seem exciting, because this is the kind of move you make as a new owner when you want to take a huge swing on a trade for KD, and your professional, responsible GM is telling you the price is too high. If James Jones is given the Daryl Morey ultimatum to trading the farm for KD, he'd definitely be a fantastic candidate as a replacement to Stone if he chooses to leave. The only thing I worry is that Isiah has such a track record of being terrible, that Brooklyn might actually get too good of a deal back for KD now, which will keep them from bottoming out and sending Houston some lottery picks. To be fair, I though that Chris Wallace was going to be a disaster for Houston, but for the most part, the scouting has been pretty solid for the Rockets under his tenure; can't really blame him for Green over Mobley since that was less than a month after he was hired, but Tari Eason is such a Memphis grit-and-grind kind of player with Wallace's fingerprints all over it. If anything, I underestimated how well Rafael Stone had already cemented his power in Houston.
Guy seems like the off-brand Mark Cuban. Lots of energy to do things. Not sure if it will be channeled correctly I don't really get how he became a billionaire off his family regional mortgage business? I don't know the business, i thought real estate was being abandoned in Detroit and Lansing as the population shrinks but that's just from watching horror movies like "Barbarian"
How much that Thomas guy complained during last year's Rising Star games. He looks like a complaining machine. Might fit to Knicks&Lakers better.
