P&T superfan/NBA writer Howard Beck wrote today about James Dolan’s Knicks being the only NBA team that’s failed to issue a meaningful statement in light of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the Minneapolis police and the subsequent global protests of yet another red-soaked instance of systemic racism.
Much of Beck’s piece felt familiar, if not dated, perhaps because someone at P&T tackled the same issue with such verve and heart back in early June. There were the expected rebuttals on Twitter, i.e. “Dolan saying something wouldn’t make a meaningful difference”; “Dolan saying something would just be for P.