we all know kawhi was never coming to the knicks, but he agreed to meeting with the knicks this week. front office cancelled the meeting because they were worried about 'missing out' on the other free agents that we ended up signing, who won't do anything to bring us long term success. i'm sorry, that's just dumb.
Kawhi is a top 5 player in the NBA. If he wants to talk to you, you take that meeting, even if he won't come here. There is literally no downside. There is no reason to cancel that meeting, even if there is a 0% chance of him signing, just so we can sign the players that we signed.
There are dumb Knick fans out there saying not talking to Kawhi was 'smart' because it allowed us to sign the guys that we did lol. Even if we met Kawhi and signed NOBODY, guess what? That cap space is still usable in taking back bad/expiring contracts from other teams with 1st round picks on top. That would have been better for the future of the team. The Knicks did this entire offseason wrong.