They just had a clusterfukk of absolutely awful GM work, and a location that not many FA's want to sign in. Jim Paxson set that franchise back YEARS long before they got LeBron, but then again, had he not been such a shytty GM they never would have won the lottery to draft him. Also, it doesn't help that LeBron was good right out of the gate and limited their ability to get a high draft pick.
Some of Jim Paxson's gems -
- Drafted Luke Jackson 10th, left Al Jefferson and Josh Smith on the board.
- Let Boozer out of his deal on a verbal agreement which is against NBA rules, so they could try and sign him below market value, all they had to do was wait a year to lock him up.
- Traded a first round pick for Jiri Welsch (Turned out to be Rudy Fernandez)
That doesn't even address the fact he took Dajuan Wagner over Amare & Nene
I think Ferry did a good job considering what he had to work with, Paxson is a historically bad GM. The only knock on Ferry is pulling Hickson out of the Amare trade at the last minute, and opting for Jamison instead. LeBron leaving could be traced back to the shyt job Paxson did as a GM, dude was on some CPU NBA 2k13 type trade & draft logic, he's the type of GM that makes me think I could have done a much better job.
.....How did this happen? Watching bron with some good players is scary!!! Im a knick fan and that team is crazy good!!!
He had to owe the mob money 
