While some people like Kevin Durant count drinking other people’s bath water as among their dreams, the daughter of Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Wes Edens has grander aspirations in life. You know, like buying the most expensive NBA franchise – the New York Knicks.
Ambushed for an interview by TMZ, Mallory Edens said that much after being asked whether she has any plans of pursuing NBA franchise ownership in the future.
“I wanna buy the Knicks one day.”
That’s some lofty goal for Mallory, but it’s good to know that she’s got some goals she’s eager to reach. She also noted that there has to be a bigger presence for women in the male-dominated professional landscape, implying that women aren’t represented well in the business beyond a spattering few appointees.
“I think women are hugely underrepresented in sports,” said Edens, who was raised in New York. “There are not female GMs [general managers], like one team president who is a woman in the NBA. There’s no female head coaches, you know hopefully [San Antonio Spurs assistant coach] Becky Hammon gets a head coaching job somewhere, but there’s never been a female commissioner in any of the four major American sports leagues.”
The Knicks are one of the most dysfunctional sports organizations in American sports today. Despite a large and wealthy market, the Knicks have made it a tradition to fail in almost all fronts of their basketball operation. Maybe a woman is all the Knicks need to fix its wretched franchise. No word yet whether Mallory has asked his father for $3.3 billion dollars – the current value of the Knicks – to buy the New York-based team.
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