There’s a reason the New York Knicks spend every season swirling around the toilet bowl and it begins and ends with their owner, James Dolan.

Yes, the same James Dolan who penned an uninspired tune about Trayvon Martin being murdered while having “nothing in his pockets but candy and a pop”; the same James Dolan who dismissed a lifelong Knicks fan as an “alcoholic” and advised that they “start rooting for the Nets because the Knicks don’t want you” and banned another from Madison Square Garden for telling Dolan to sell the team; the same James Dolan who lowballed Steve Kerr but invested heavily in people like Isiah Thomas; the same James Dolan who...you get the point.

And in what’s become his latest foray into ineptitude, Dolan somehow found a way to embarrass the Knicks yet again when, instead of publicly issuing a statement addressing the death of George Floyd while in police custody, he instead opted to hit send on an internal memo to Knicks staff explaining why he would not be doing so.

In response to the backlash, Dolan fired off a second email on Tuesday in a weak attempt to clarify his position.

Going so far out of your way to publicly remain silent on such an important issue isn’t even remotely close to doing “as much as you can to help make our community even better.” It’s cowardice, or more specifically, it’s James Dolan