Donnie Walsh Admits Knicks Have No Rebuilding Plan and Are a Complete and Utter Failure

 The killing joke.

Surprise Knicks fans! If the Knicks don't sign LeBron this summer, there is no Plan B! A pathetic "Teflon" Donnie Walsh has admitted that he is to blame for the Knicks being one of the worst teams in the league with no bright future ahead.

Try this on for double-speak:

"I didn't say (in) one summer we're going to turn around and become a championship team," Walsh said. "And I'm not asking for time. I won't have that much time. I know one thing. Now at least we have a flexible position, whether it's next summer or the summer after to start adding players to this team that can head you in that direction."

So he's not asking for time, but he is asking until at least the summer of 2011, so maybe, maybe, FOUR years into his plan we'll be a playoff team. This, in an Eastern Conference where it is possible to make the playoffs while being well under .500. This, from a man, who has traded away our 2012 first-rounder while insuring that our 2011 first-rounder is very low by swapping picks with the always-competitive Rockets. 

Other teams build through the draft. The Celtics won by swapping for KG (using a savvy draft choice in Al Jefferson) but had a strong stable of draft choices including Rajon Rondo and Paul Pierce. The Spurs core of Big Funda, Ginoblez and Eva Longoria were all draft picks. The Lakers were savvy enough to swap draft picks with the Charlotte Hornets to nab Kobe. You can go up and down the league past and present and see how every champion was built through the draft.

Meanwhile, even though the entire decade of the 2000s was a complete waste of time for the Knicks, they never once had a high lottery pick because they've never been bad enough! It's the worst kind of hell. Terrible, but not terrible enough. In the NBA, if you are not going to make the playoffs then you must tank, and tank until you are one of the worst teams in the league to ensure that even if the ping-pong balls don't go your way that you'll still pick in the top 5. The Knicks haven't picked in the Top 5 since they drafted Kenny "Sky" Walker, before Kevin Durant was even born! 

Walsh's plan from Day 1 should have been to actively seek trades for the entire roster that brought back draft picks. Instead, we flushed two years down the toilet, and possibly two more, to sign second-tier free agents that just maybe will get us back in the lower half of the playoff pool while robbing us of the chance to draft legitimate superstars that will grow with the franchise.

Read Donnie Walsh's pathetic apology in full here.