Stephen A. Smith bashes Mike Breen’s Knicks praise: ‘Don’t give free passes’

Source: New York Post

Leon Rose has once again orchestrated a 50-win Knicks season — but Mike Breen’s recent praise of the team president has been dubbed “blasphemous” by Stephen A. Smith. With the Knicks blowing out the Bulls on Friday, Breen — a colleague of Smith’s at ESPN — suggested to viewers on the MSG broadcast that the expectations surrounding the Knicks had gotten out of hand.