With the New York Knicks still reeling from what was truly a disastrous offseason for their franchise, ESPN's Baxter Holmes has shed some light on how team owner James Dolan and his meddling has had such an adverse effect on the team. As it turns out, this problem has been going on for quite some time now, as it dates all the way back to 2012.

But as quickly, or accidentally, as it came together, it fell apart. The reason? Staffers wanted to keep several of the veteran players, but Dolan, they say, didn't. “Every time we brought up veteran names, he's like, ‘I don't want any of those guys back,'” one Knicks source says. And GM Glen Grunwald was fired just days before training camp began. “That threw everything for a loop,” the Knicks source says. “That, I think, started the beginning of the end.”

This is why in most cases, it's best for owners to let their operations team handle the basketball end of the business. If not, then why hire them in the first place? There are always exceptions to this general rule, but as proven by how the Knicks have gone from bad to worse over the past few years, it appears that the same does not hold true for Dolan.

The problem right now is that Dolan still seems to gave significant control over personnel matters for his team. Many are putting the blame on him with regards to New York's failure to land Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving this summer, who both seemed to have at least considered joining the Knicks.