Nah son! This is New Yawk! Of course there’s going to be a battle for that top spot — and it could get ugly!! I love when players are extra passionate about their team. I guess the NBA is trying to stop anything before it gets too crazy and spoke with the Knicks & Nets owners about playing nice.
Check it out & let us know what you think…
Via SlamOnline:
According to the NY Post, the NBA wants both sides to basically cut down on the childish insults.
“Play nice, guys. That essentially was the directive given to owners James Dolan of the Knicks and Mikhail Prokhorov of the Nets this past season during a meeting orchestrated by NBA Commissioner David Stern, who wanted to snuff any lingering tension between the two and prevent a full-blown feud, multiple league sources said. ‘There was such a meeting and the parties both said it was a very cordial and pleasant one,’ said one league official with knowledge of the sit-down, which happened early in the season.
The official also confirmed Stern assisted in getting the pair together in an attempt to prevent a wave of spitballs going back and forth over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. See? It’s not just players like Paul Pierce and Raymond Felton fueling the feud between the two NBA teams sharing the city. It has been going on for a while, but the Nets no longer are the poor stepchild performing in a New Jersey swamp. Another person with direct knowledge of the sit-down called it ‘cordial and friendly.’
Spokespersons both for Prokhorov and for the Knicks said ‘no comment’ regarding the meeting. One source maintained Prokhorov stokes the rivalry fires because he believes the feud ‘is great for both teams’ and insisted it is ‘not at all personal’ against Dolan, the Garden chairman and Cablevision CEO.”
