Since last night’s Knicks loss to the Clippers is too depressing to discuss (other than Vin Baker managing to play 7 minutes without ordering a drink), let’s instead get nostalgic for the events of last Friday night, when the Knicks managed a rare win over the LeBron-less Cavaliers. From Slam Online :
We have it from someone who should know that the barely reported verbal tiff between Steph and Kurt Thomas on the Knicks bench during a timeout Friday night went down something like this. It started apparently because Kurt was pissed off at Steph for either dribbling too much or taking a bad shot on a recent possession, and saying so to Steph.
Steph: “Fuck you, man.”
Kurt: “Fuck YOU. Everyone in this organization is afraid of you, but I’m not, and I will beat your ass.”
And then they had to be separated. Your move, Isiah.
Beast. Maybe this can get us going.
oh yeah, that should do the trick.
i don’t normally watch anything associated with that charlatan Isiah Thomas but i did find myself taking in a few minutes of crunch time last night. score tied 81-81, here were the next few Knicks possessions: Marbury bad pass = steal and fast break layup; Marbury bad pass = steal and transition dunk; Marbury drives to baseline, gets cornered and steps out of bounds; Crawford hoists off-balance three that clangs like a church bell. it made me wonder how the guy on the radio earlier in the day could have coneivably been saying that Starbury is in the same class as Steve Nash. how many teams does he have to ruin before everyone realizes that he makes the players around him worse? not that this Knicks team is much to speak of (another bang-up job, Zeke), but maybe Steph could hoist even more poor shots to help pathc things up by letting Kurt pad his rebounding numbers.