Senators Obama and Clinton aren’t the only people sending reinforcements to Ohio. At the trade deadline, Lebron James gets some much-needed help in Ben Wallace, Wally Szczerbiak, Joe Smith, and Delonte West, giving up Drew Gooden and the underperforming Larry Hughes to Chicago and Donyell Marshall to Seattle. Elsewhere in the league, Bonzi Wells and Mike James went to N’Orleans, and former Knick Kurt Thomas ended up in San Antonio (which will help take the sting out of the Spurs winning another championship, if that’s in the cards, around these parts.)
Speaking of the 16-38 Knicks, they…stood pat. I must say, it’s been a tough season to be a Knicks fan. My TiVo conscientiously tapes all of their losses for me, so I caught the second half of Wednesday’s 40-point stinker against the lowly Sixers, 124-84. Look away! It is hideous.
They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn…my experience as a Celtics fan goes to show that a couple of big off-season moves can turn everything around. As for this season, though, the Knicks sure are ugly.
I like the new Cavs lineup- playoffs in the East are going to be exciting.
But you wouldn’t know it by me
Every day’s been darkness since Spree’s been gone.
Well, Spree, and, more to the point, Patrick Ewing. That was really the domino that started our several years of terribleness. Let’s see, it was Patrick for Glenn Rice and Luc Longley, and Rice became Shandan Anderson and Howard Eisley…from there, the bad contracts and sub-par players just kept on mounting.