The following exchange between Cablevision CEO James Dolan and New York Knicks fan Irving Bierman was published earlier today by Deadspin :

Subject: I have been a knicks fan since 1952

At one stage I thought that you did a wonderful thing when you acquired EVERYTHING from your dad. However, since then it has been ALL DOWN HILL. Your working with Isaiah Thomas & everything else regarding the Knicks. Bringing on Phil Jackson was a positive beginning, but lowballing Steve Kerr was a DISGRACE to the knicks. The bottom line is that you merely continued to interfere with the franchise.

As a knicks fan for in excess of 60 years, I am utterly embarrassed by your dealings with the Knicks. Sell them so their fans can at least look forward to growing them in a positive direction Obviously, money IS NOT THE ONLY THING. You have done a lot of utterly STUPID business things with the franchise. Please NO MORE.

Respectfully,

Irving Bierman,

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:15 PM, James Dolanwrote:

Mr Bierman

You are a sad person. Why would anybody write such a hateful letter. I am.just guessing but ill bet your life is a mess and you are a hateful mess. What have you done that anyone would consider positive or nice. I am betting nothing. In fact ill bet you are negative force in everyone who comes in contact with you. You most likely have made your family miserable. Alcoholic maybe. I just celebrated my 21 year anniversary of sobriety. You should try it. Maybe it will help you become a person that folks would like to have around. In the mean while start rooting.for the Nets because the Knicks dont want you.

Respectfully

James Dolan

Speaking with ESPN, Bierman, though insisting he has no plans to switch to the Nets, says Dolan’s reponse “confirmed some of the worst things that fans think of him.” But the important thing is we all have Dolan’s email address, and given the high percentage of thoroughly unpleasant, friendless persons who read (or edit) this blog who may or may not have drinking problems, there is no better time to let this lumpen, charmless, tuneless, mega-entitled shitbag know that he’s merely a caretaker. The New York Knicks have existed for nearly 70 years and no tycoon with Blues Hammer aspirations has the right to tell anyone who to root for. He’s not Red Holtzman, Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Bernard King, Patrick Ewing, Anthony Mason or Charles Oakley. Heck, when it comes to being committed to the Knicks, he’s not even Matthew Modine’s crazy wife. Though it would probably be a (slight) exaggeration to say Dolan’s as big a P.R. disaster for the NBA as Donald Sterling, he’s pretty much told the entire fanbase to go fuck themselves.  Given that Adam Silver’s established a precedent for making being loathsome an actionable offense, how about a little help here, Commish?