Bill Simmons

Now we have to call timeout.

Now we have to rally the troops to address this thing that Carl is doing or not doing.

That's a not insignificant part of the ecosystems of these teams.

Okay, you're at least a little happy about it.

LeBron's 41 years old.

I don't want to throw it on him that he needs to now save the New York Knicks and especially needs to make sense of their defense in some way.

I think obviously adding LeBron as a secondary playmaker, as somebody who's going to take, you know, relieve some of the pressure off of Brunson, that's a hugely valuable thing.

I think where you and I are different is like,

For everything that Towns has done and not done and as frustrating as he's been, especially over the last couple of weeks, I'm not operating from the mindset of like, we have to get out of the Carl Towns business, right?

Like I'm open to any Towns trade.

Certainly like an Anthony Davis one, I think might be more appealing, especially if like your medical staff believes that he might be back in five to six weeks, right?

That it might be a non-surgical recovery for him.

That's something that would be really interesting to me.

I think that's where I have moved on the Knicks.

If you asked me a month ago, should they even consider trading for somebody who has a serious injury and might come back?

I would have said, obviously not.

They're so well positioned in the East.

They're talented enough.

I'm going to trust them to figure it out.

I no longer trust this team to figure it out.