Preparing for the best: NY Knicks

I'm not very into other sports so I can't really say that James Dolan is the worst owner in the history of pro sports but he has to be in the conversation. Either Dolan has this weird man - crush with Isiah Thomas that's not letting him see things straight or he has a "there's no way I was wrong with this guy" stand that is burying the knicks deeper that we all think.

Not only they are in crappy salary cap position but their team chemistry is getting sour by each passing game and that's reflecting in their record. Everybody outside the Knicks organization knew for two years now that Thomas needs to go but he always had Dolan's and his players support, now he's missing the last. Allowing Mardbury's AWOL to pass only with a financial slap on the wrist ( I know he took away his starting spot but have you seen Marbury talk about it, he doesn't give a rat ass) producing some "discontent" with the rest of the Knicks players.

Look I've never played professional basketball, I'll never play professional basketball, but one thing I know for sure: If you don't trust your teammate, if you don't even like your teammates, there's no way in hell your are going to function like a team and if you want to win games you need some team cohesion and that applies to pretty much anything you do as a group. Bad chemistry have destroyed great teams and the Knicks are not a great team.

Sometime down the line Isiah will be fired, Marbury will be released or traded, Q, Jamal Crawford and Malik Rose among other will be traded for draft picks and young players with a "clean soul". The Knicks need to rebuild the right way and that way doesn't include Zeke. It is the time

Randomize

Is funny how the presence or absence of one word in a sentence changes absolutely everything. Some three weeks ago we found out that Oden was undergoing " exploratory arthroscopic surgery" In the same very moment we all went "Crap!". We knew what was going to happen, we just knew it. Now, Amare is putting himself through "undergo minor arthroscopic knee surgery". I don't know about you, but I don't smell anything evil cooking in the Basketball's Gods oven. Is funny, isn't ?


Update: Nothing new or shocking. Amare will only miss less than a month.



In other unrelated business, it's good to know I'm not the only one wondering what the hell is wrong with Stephon Marbury.



Just one more thought, after reading this note , can somebody explain me why they haven't trade Chris Duhon? (Thanks to BlogaBull for the link)

Dog Fighting is a sport

Oh dear God! Is this guy ever going to stop doing this? It never stops. Unbelievable

Let’s play a game, let’s be Stephon for a second or two: We think we are the best point guard in the game; Jason Kidd is not from New York so he doesn’t count and Nash is not even American, we are sure the second best point guard in the game is Sebastian Telfair; he’s just waiting for this break. Although we are the Basketball God’s gift to humankind we don’t know the difference between a dime and an assist, what normal people don’t know is that's the thing the makes us Starbury, nobody can average dimes and assists in a single season. Suckers!

We have a great talk show, but just in case the competition gets to hard, we go to other talk shows and give crappy interviews with monologues that have absolutely no sense, that way we have the only quality show.

Our family rocks, we love to call our wife our “better ho”. Sometimes when we are not giving away snickers, and criticizing those who don’t, we love to spend some quality time with our family, doing some nice and fulfilling activities, like setting up a dog fight in our backyard, because it is a sport. Those are some strong values, god bless Stephon Marbury!

Down the road, in a couple of years, when we finish screwing the Knicks, we are moving to Italy and teach everybody how real basketball is played. Of course is going to be a media frenzy, they are going to ask us and our better ho to start a reality show, and write some books about fashion. We will have to attend to a bunch of parties in our honor, thrown by people like Isabella Rosellini, Monica Belluci, Roberto Benigni and Tony Danza. Our first basket is going to crash the Internet and they are going to ask us to fix it, of course we will, don’t worry.

When we retire, basketball as a sport is going to be cancelled around the globe, but we and Michael Vick, as a entrepreneurs we are, we are going to create and World DogFighting League , is going to be great. At the end of time, I’m going to have more money than Kevin Garnett, it's what's fair.



Back to being you and me, FUCK YOU, Marbury. If you think electrocuting and drowning dogs it’s a sport, you are even more fucked up and stupid that I ever thought.


Man, that was therapeutic.


US Basketball team played pretty good yesterday, so far so good!

On a sad note, Eddie Griffin died last week when his USV crashed against a train. Here's a point I’ve always defended, there are kids out there that only play basketball because they know they could be rich before 22, and they sit behind their potential and never learn the love of the game, the value of money or the basics values that build a society. There are nice kids with lots of talents, thank God for them. But for cases like Griffin, who clearly wasn’t ready for the NBA, he wasn’t even ready for real life. Force this kids to go to college for a couple of years, let them grow there, not only as a bastketball player but also as a person. I'm not blaming the NBA or Setton Hall perhaps Eddie Griffin's problems couldn't be fixed with more college time, but we might save the next Griffin.



My condolences to the family.

The kids aren't alright. The 96 Draft Class. Part I

I was making a comment on The fresh blog of basketball, where Sit, the blogger, made a do-over of the 96 draft, then I realized that class was really something else, and that's not necessary a good thing: Three of the mayor headaches of this generation are from this class. Some pretty decent players were selected here too, as well asa bunch of big men who couldn't play. Let's check the lottery picks:

1. Philly: Allen Iverson (27.9 ppg , 6,2 apg , 2,3 spg , 9.2 FTpg )

Good Stuff:

• 2001 MVP,
• 8 Time All-Star,
• 7 Time All NBA (3 First All NBA),
• 3 Time Steal Champ,
• 4 Time Scoring Champ

Bad Stuff:

• In 1993 spent 4 months in prison due to a brawl. Sometime after that he was found in a car with a dude and a lot of weed, but nothing happened.

• He never practices

• In 2000, he decided that he could rap, named himself Jewel, and said very bad things about gays and females. David Stern didn’t like, I think he is more into music that doesn’t induce to commit hate crimes

• In 2002, he was charged with assault with a gun and trespassing among other charges. All of this while he was looking for his missing wife, who was kicked out of her home, butt naked, by Iverson

• In the end of 2006, he “hinted” he wanted to be traded. The Sixers sent him home and after 6 inactive games and like two weeks of doing nothing at home, he was traded to the Denver Nuggets. After the trade went down, he said that he never asked to be traded. Cute!

2. Raptors: Marcus Camby (10.9 ppg , 9.3 rbp, 2.6 bpg )

Good Stuff:

• 2007 DPOY
• 3 Time Blocks Champ,
• 3 Time All Defensive (2 Time First All Defense),

Bad Stuff:

• Have only played 616 games out of 902 possible (67%)

• In 1997, was acussed of possession of marijuana.

3. Grizzlies: Shareef Abdur-Rahim (18.2 ppg , 7,6 rpg)

Good Stuff:

• 2002 All Star

Bad Stuff:

• He removed his tattoo because he didn't want to give his little brother a bad example. Is this good or bad?

4. Seattle: Ray Allen (21.5 ppg, .888 FT%, .397 3PFG% )

Good Stuff:

• 7 Time All Star
• Starred as Jesus Shuttlesworth in the 1998 movie He Got Game. I liked the movie, sorry.

Bad Stuff:

• Starred as Marcus Blake in the 2000 movie Harvard Man.

5. T’Wolves: Stephon Marbury (19.9 ppg, 7,9 apg, 3.2 TOpg)

Good Stuff:

• 2 Time All NBA,
  
• 2 Time All Star
• He's not a bad person, just nota smart one.

Bad Stuff:

• During 1999 season he asked to be traded, because Garnett was making more money than him

• In 2002, he was arrested for DUI ( Driving a Ferrari )
  

• During the 2005 - 06 season, he dedicated himself to fight Larry Brown, instead of trying to win some games. Larry Brown never liked the guy, and the both could be more mature and professional and handle this behind close doors and not give us all this crap, but a little respect is due to your coach, especially if it is Larry Brown. After 23 wins in 82 games, he had the Hall of Fame coach fired

• He likes Isiah Thomas

• This past July he called out Jordan and said to him: "stop making money"
  

• He has his own talk show, and its boring as hell

• Last month he said that he wants to play in Italy when his Knicks' contract expires, comparing himself in the process with David Beckham and his media power (I'm guessing...). There’s nothing wrong with Italy, but you can't say you have plans when you contract expires in 2 years, you can have them, but you don’t talk about them. You are supposed to be thinking TEAM and stuff like that.

• This Interview. WTF! One would thought people learned something from Tom Cruise Oh, the humanity!
  

No Games no News makes Morgan go crazy

It's been like a lot of days since the betting ref thing and there's absolutely nothing new on the news front. There ain't anything new to say about the crooked zebra, and nothing I can write would be better than this writting from Bill Simmmons, be sure to chech this article too.

USA Basketball have a broadcasted scrimmage yesterday, apparently it was pretty awesome; it was filled with stars and actually everybody played at full throttle, including Lebron. Kobe and Kidd ruled the court showing all the multimillionare kids how it's done, that's not really a shocker, but I liked the "Kidd hint" thrown by Kobe and Lebron to their respective teams and their "anything but happy trigger" GM's

Lebron:

"This is a treat, I don't have that luxury on my team back in Cleveland. It's like a dream of mine."

Kobe:

"It's scary actually, what he sees on the floor. I learned a lot just playing with him and talking with him the last couple days, being that we're the two old dogs on the team -- he's actually the old dog by a long shot,"

Here's a video posted by a Kobe fan

I don't know if I feel worst for Boobie Gibson and Jason Farmar, or for Kupchak and Danny Ferry. Actually, after reading what I just wrote about Boobie Gibson and Jason Farmar... What the hell!!. I might give Boobie some slack, but if we believe the rumors; Lebron should be playing with Bibby and Kobe with Kidd himself. Why this trades didn't happen? Poor GMs? Owners Saving Money? Why people in this game doesn't just roll the dice and see what happen, maybe you get lucky and create a championship team, worst case scenario, your rich boss lost a couple of millions and you team doesn't win the championship, they never do this. EDIT: A'right, they might get fired, but it's all for the good of the sport! :D

The NBA is in the shape that it is no only due to the Artest Melee or whatever stupid act , this is happening beacuse of bad referees (and crooked referees ) and the lack of balls showed by most of the GMs in the league. Both issues are fixable, the officiating took a major hit, but it's still fixable, but it's going to be a long process. The second one, could be faster and it's running in the veins of guys like Sam Presti and John Paxton, young and smart GM's who although their bosses, whoever thery are in Presti case, may no be big spenders, we only can hope this GMs MIGHT give us some hope, so far they have been doing a more than decent job.

I think I haven't write anything about the Marbury to Venice story, I didn't gave it too much relevance, because he's STARBURY the best point guard in the game, he can play in Pluto with Kobe if he wants (SARCASM SARCASM I cannot stress how much SARCASM you must read here!), but the friends at KnicksClicks are pretty shocked by the Italians sweeping their point guard of his feet, and this post of YAYSports is one of the funniest thing I have ever seen (Hail to the YAY!)

Stupidness 1.2

Steve “Franchise” is coming back to the franchise that saw him become an All Star. Good for Francis, I’m really glad for the guy, he’s going to play in a familiar territory and he never really fit with those Knicks, maybe because sharing a backcourt with Marbury is like sharing a pie with Val Kilmer this days. My issue (among others) here is that I really don’t understand this from the Rockets point of view. They have 2 scorers and no true point guard, they decided to add another scorer, who calls himself a point guard, but he’s actually a scorer who like to shot a lot in order to score a lot,you know he being a scorer. They now have 3 scorers and the making of a huge catfight for the ball in a middle of a game. SCORER!. If the word scorer just lost the meaning to you, you probably need to score to reconnect to the sense of the word, if you know what I mean. Be a scorer. Score.

Does this propel Houston pass their Texas buddies? Hell no! But it will be interesting when China calls Houston to said that they are not helping Yao achieve the exultation of capturing glory and that they must kill Francis. Houston will probably be ok with this as long as the murdered Francis' contract doesn't count against the cap.

In another bonehead move, the Suns are trading their (only) best post defender and only player who’s not afraid of the boogeyman to the Sonics for a second round pick and a $8 million trade exception. If Phoenix don’t get KG or Jermainel O’neal, I’m officially getting of the Steve Kerr’s bandwagon and proclaiming that the Suns just wasted the last couple of good years on Steve Nash “rebirth”. Really, Kerr appears to be a good guy, he went through a lot of bad shit before hitting the NBA, he was a great color commentator, a great shooter, but I don’t see how a team in the position the Phoenix is can rely in a rookie GM, they are piece or two (three now) away from really contending, they’re in a crappy CAP position, they need somebody who knows what he or she’s doing, I’m not saying Steve’s doesn’t, but if he’s going to show growing pains handling this team and make a mistake here or there, it would be a great opportunity missed for them do to something special and signing it’s ticket to the basketball Olympus.

Let’s just hope this is step one; I’m not the only one thinking it