Tania Ganguli and Dionne Searcey
June 3, 2026
James L. Dolan has spent nearly 30 years as the owner of the New York Knicks. For much of that time, the team was one of the worst in the National Basketball Association.
After the Knicks went to the championship round of the N.B.A. playoffs in 1999, Mr. Dolan’s first year at the helm, they made the playoffs only seven times over the next 23 years. They had the worst record in the N.B.A. in 2019, prompting the Bloomberg headline “Is the Knicks’ James Dolan the Worst Owner in Professional Sports?”
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