With a more than slight revision to his earlier prognostication, the New York Times’ Howard Beck reports the Knicks have swapped Penny Hardaway and Trevor Ariza for Orlando’s Steve Francis.
The only thing that makes less sense to this observer than pairing Francis and Stephon Marbury in the same backcourt, would be for Portland to try and match the latter with Sebastian Telfair. But there’s only so much complete desperation to go around.
I’m less optimistic about Isiah Thomas’ chances of making a deal for Kenyon Martin or Darius Miles with Hardaway’s expiring contract out of the mix (which isn’t to say I was exactly looking forward to the latter’s arrival).
Over/under on exact date and time Larry Brown begins to bleed from his eyes, please.
TM, I think we’re already there. These guys look like an eighth place fantasy team. Brown should just quit; it’s bound to happen sometime, and I don’t think he or anyone else wants to stick around for this. How long can Thomas keep making these deals?
Where is James Dolan in all of this? He keeps letting Isaiah take on more and more payroll while winning less.
>>These guys look like an eighth place fantasy team.
Aha!
I’ll take that as an insult!
Thank you!
I mean it: If they hadn’t traded away Sprewell, 75 percent of these crappy moves wouldn’t have occurred. He was the last of the Oakley/Starks style of Knicks basketball. Mediocrity, thy name is Isiah.
“As an organization, you always look for ways to improve your team, both presently and in the future,” Magic assistant general manager Otis Smith said. “The moves we have made today and last week continue to build a solid foundation around our core players, such as Dwight Howard and Jameer Nelson.” Great—now Thomas will have his eyes set on THESE two guys!
Egg – FYI – Larry Brown wishes the Knicks were mediocre. They are well below the average mark. It wasn’t the Sprewell trade that sent the Knicks in a tailspin, it was signing Allan Houston to a 400 million dollar, 75 year deal.
Not sure if you’ve heard this one yet
The woman who was suing for sexual harassment offered to settle for 2 mil. Isaiah countered for 5 years at 60 million
Josh,
that’s really unfair.
I heard Isiah threw in the no. 1 pick in 2009, as well.
That one’s bound to be out of the top 3, though. Because of the lottery system.
http://straightbangin.blogspot.com/2006/02/breaking-news-rules-changes-coming-to.html
I considered just wandering the streets aimlessly tonight, hoping to get hit by a truck or something. Please make Isiah go away. Use your acerbic wit, I beg of you…
I never thought I’d say this….but Scott Layden wasn’t this bad.
I can only pray Zeke hasn’t given away the Knicks’ no. 1 pick in the 2011 draft. Look who’s coming up
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=83601
It was great to read today about Isaiah’s long term vision of a team led by Garnett and Marbury. I thought Kevin McHale already tried that one and it didn’t work?