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A very interesting article is in the New York Observer, detailed around the Knicks beat writers and the franchise. It paints an ugly picture where the writers have to deal with a terrible organization to do their job.

NY Daily News' Frank Isola: "It used to be fun here. Now, there are some nights when you’re trying to talk your boss out of sending you here and maybe lie and tell him you’re sick or something."

NY Times' Howard Beck: "I’ll admit, that the beat makes me miserable. We all know what it’s like to cover a normal team, covering the Knicks is so much worse. Everyone (Knick officials) is so worried about upsetting Jim Dolan, or getting fired, and as a result people aren’t themselves,” said Mr. Beck. “If you transplanted the same individuals and put them in another city, then they’d be far more interesting. They’d be themselves."

NY Post's Mike Vaccaro: "It’s the gulag."

Newsday's Alan Hahn: "“Some of the things they practice here are completely against what you’d expect a normal team to do. They come up with things all the time. There’s zero access to players. They would rather you don’t even write."


To say the Knicks organization is the worst in sports may be an understatement.