MILWAUKEE — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told The Post Monday there will be no penalty coming to Jim Dolan for his angry email to longtime Knicks fan Irving Bierman.
“Jim is a consummate New Yorker,” Silver said. “Jim got an unkind email and responded with an unkind email.”
The email exchange between Dolan and Bierman surfaced Sunday. Bierman criticized Dolan’s ownership of the Knicks and asked him to sell the team. Dolan responded with an angry, grammatically messy note in which he suggested Bierman was an “alcoholic.”
“You are a sad person,” Dolan wrote. “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,’’ Dolan added. “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.”
Dolan ended the email by telling Bierman, who said in his email he has been a Knicks fan for 60 years, to “start rooting for the Nets because the Knicks don’t want you.”
The Knicks enter Monday night’s road game against the Heat at 10-41, on pace for the worst season in franchise history.