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Donnie Walsh recalls Knicks failed pursuit of LeBron James on Shattered
By The Athletic Staff
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For months, even years, leading up to the summer of 2010, New York Knicks fans dreamed of LeBron James and perhaps another superstar donning blue and orange on the court at Madison Square Garden. But the team s free-agent pursuit didn t exactly go as planned.
As then-team president Donnie Walsh recalled in Episode 4 of
The Athletic s“Shattered: Hope, Heartbreak and the New York Knicks,” James seemed distant when the Knicks met the Cavaliers star in Cleveland. Owner James Dolan s next move, Walsh says, was to ask the man Walsh had replaced longtime Knicks guard and former president of basketball operations Isiah Thomas to recruit James.