So the NBA trade deadline passed with only one mega-trade: Gary Payton for Ray Allen. I know the Glove is in his waning years, but I still think this is a great trade for Milwaukee, despite the point guard glut. GP is a out-and-out baller, and he single-handedly makes the Bucks serious contenders in the East. As for Seattle, they’re clearly calling this year off. The Knicks made no moves again, but I’m glad we didn’t pull the trigger on the rumored Spree-for-Cassell trade.
Category: Knicks
Old School Knicks, New School ESPN.
In the midst of finding the appropriate Knicks beat Lakers at home link, I discovered that ESPN.com’s gone hi-tech. I’m really not too big on registering for anything, of course, but since I’m there pretty much every day I’ll give the Motion bit its chance. Hopefully it’s more useful than the annoying Bottomline they were offering a few months ago.
Please don’t go.
George Willis of the NY Post makes the case against trading Latrell Sprewell. Amen.
Nailon the 3.
Lost in the bad news and pessimism of this election week was one glimmer of hope…at least the Knicks have lucked into a bench scorer with Lee Nailon. Gotta take heart in the little things these days.
Grounded.
The Knicks’ season ended before it began yesterday, when new acquisition Antonio McDyess reinjured his knee in an exhibition game. It’s gonna be a long year…without Farscape or a decent Knicks squad, I might as well turn off my cable.
Mormon Justice.
Scott Layden and the Knicks throw the book at Sprewell for failure to disclose his yacht party punch. Put simply, Layden is a moron. The worst thing you could do right now is separate Spree and the rest of the team. Plus, broken hand or no, Spree works hard. If you want to start throwing around exorbitant fines, why not charge holy-rollin’ model citizen Allan Houston a quarter-mil for constantly disappearing in the clutch?
Here we go again.
Consider this the first Knicks-griping post of the 2002-03 season. Said season hasn’t even started yet, of course, and we’ve already lost Sprewell for six weeks. Bleah. Update: And it’s already getting worse. Apparently Kurt Thomas has been arrested for hitting his wife. Bleah Bleah.
So long, Ew.
Trade Winds Blowing.
Many NBA trades went down in my absence, including Miller to the Clips, Big Dog to the Hawks, and – the biggest – Mutombo to NJ for Van Horn. While that’s a great pickup for Jersey (and losing Van Horn is addition by subtraction), I’m actually kinda glad the Knicks-Mutombo trade fell through. Much as I’d love to see Travis Knight off the roster, I gotta think Kurt Thomas has more upside than Mutombo these days. I’d say Mutombo’s probably a season or a slight injury away from looking Ewing-tired. We’ve already been down that road with Glen Rice and Mark Jackson.
Gotham Makeover.
ESPN tries to reinvent the Knicks. Houston for Van Horn sounds better than any of the Sprewell trades I’ve been hearing.