MSG Executive Chairman James Dolan continues to receive a lot of heat as a result of his team’s horrendous performance and it appears that he’s not taking it lightly.
After receiving an e-mail from longtime fan Irving Bierman, the father of filmmaker Aaron Bierman, Dolan (pictured middle, above) replied back with an emotionally-charged message, one that ended with him suggesting that Bierman should become a Nets fan because the Knicks don’t want him.
Here is the first e-mail sent by Bierman:
At one stage I thought that you did a wonderful thing when you acquired EVERYTHING from your dad. However, since then it has been ALL DOWN HILL. Your working with Isaiah Thomas & everything else regarding the Knicks. Bringing on Phil Jackson was a positive beginning, but lowballing Steve Kerr was a DISGRACE to the knicks. The bottom line is that you merely continued to interfere with the franchise.
As a knicks fan for in excess of 60 years, I am utterly embarrassed by your dealings with the Knicks. Sell them so their fans can at least look forward to growing them in a positive direction Obviously, money IS NOT THE ONLY THING. You have done a lot of utterly STUPID business things with the franchise. Please NO MORE.
It is unclear how much Bierman actually knows about the business of basketball and what Dolan is doing right or wrong, but the executive did not appreciate the comments and replied with the following:
You are a sad person. Why would anybody write such a hateful letter. I am.just guessing but ill bet your life is a mess and you are a hateful mess. What have you done that anyone would consider positive or nice. I am betting nothing. In fact ill bet you are negative force in everyone who comes in contact with you. You most likely have made your family miserable. Alcoholic maybe. I just celebrated my 21 year anniversary of sobriety. You should try it. Maybe it will help you become a person that folks would like to have around. In the mean while start rooting.for the Nets because the Knicks dont want you.
According to USA Today Sports, an MSG spokesperson confirmed that the e-mail was indeed written by Dolan. There has not been any indication if Dolan will be disciplined for the intense e-mail.
[Deadspin]
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