I am no longer a Knicks fan

Dr. Giganto

Sports Moderator

it's official. I can't do it anymore. Unless one of the following two things happens, I will not be rooting for hte Knicks any longer:

1. Isiah Thomas gets fired

2. James Dolan sells the team

By the way, here are the Knicks draft picks for the last 10 years:

1996: John Wallace (this was actually a good pick at the time, although he didnt pan out)

1997: John Thomas

1998: Demarco Johnson, Sean Marks

1999: Frederic Weis-Carter (because Vince Carter made him his bitch in the Olympics), J.R. Koch

2000: Donnell Harvey (immediately traded for Erick Strickland)

2001: Michael Wright, Eric Chenowith

2002: Nene Hilario (immediately traded for Antonio McDyess), Milos Vujanic

2003: Mike Sweetney, Maciej Lampe, Slavko Vranes

2004: Trevor Ariza

2005: Channing Frye (good pick), Nate Robinson (decent pick), David Lee (pretty good pick)

Ugh...

Dr. Giganto

Sports Moderator

Here is what ESPN's Bill Simmons had to say about the whole scenario:

And that brings us to our featured attraction of the evening ...
"THE KNICKS ARE ON THE CLOCK!"

ESPN wisely works the MSG crowd into a hostile frenzy by showing the obligatory "KNICKS UNDER ISIAH THOMAS" graphic. Has there ever been rioting at an NBA draft before?

9:34 -- Stephen A. on the No. 20 pick: "I'M A BORN AND RAISED NEW YORKER, OK? YOU HAVE GOT TO GET A DOG ON THIS ROSTER, I DON'T CARE WHERE YOU FIND HIM. I DON'T CARE, YOU GOT TO GET SOMEONE WHO WILL BE IN PEOPLE'S FACE, SOMEONE WHO'S HARDCORE. YOU LOOK AT ISIAH THOMAS AND HIS DRAFT HISTORY ... YOU KNOW THAT HE KNOWS TALENT ... THIS PICK HAS GOT TO WORK. IT'S GOT TO WORK!"

(Translation: The Knicks need to pick someone good.)

9:36 -- There are those moments in sports when you expect something great, and then it actually happens. And then there are those rare moments in sports when you expect something great, and something even greater happens. This was one of those moments: The Knicks on the clock, the crowd pushing for Marcus Williams, and then ...

--Stern: "With the 20th pick, the New York Knicks select ... Renaldo Balkman."

(Crowd explodes in horror.)

--Stern (over the boos): "Renaldo is not here."

--Patrick (without missing a beat): "And it's probably a good thing."

(Shot of a beaten-down Spike Lee laughing hysterically.)

9:36 -- That was fantastic. Everyone kept e-mailing me to write about Isiah and the Knicks last week ... what else was there to say? OF COURSE Isiah was meant to coach this team as his final job in the NBA before retiring to a life of greeting people at casinos and doing informercials. If somebody clogs your toilet, you ask him to clean up the mess. That's just the way life works. I'm telling you, we're going to remember the Isiah/Knicks Era the same way we remember things like Enron, the Hindenberg and the Bay of Pigs. It's reached that level. I don't know what else to say. Honestly. I have Knicks fans e-mailing me every day asking me if it's OK to root against their own team. What else can you say at this point?
(Wait, I know ... Renaldo Balkman!)

9:37 -- A stammering Bilas sets off three minutes of Isiah-bashing by saying, "This to me is a stunner, I'm stunned. This is a second-round player. Nobody else would have taken him in the first round," followed by Greg Anthony using the word "befuddling" and Stephen A. (maybe for the first time ever) admitting, "I'm almost speechless."
I mean, when Stephen A. is almost speechless ...

9:39 -- Who's going to be the first one to make the obligatory "Is it possible that Isiah thought he was taking Rolando Blackman?" joke. Screw it, I'll do it.

Blitzkrieg

Administrator

lol That was an awesome read again.. I missed that pick but oh my God.. Did you happen to catch the interview with Dolan where Thomas was sitting right by him and he basically said "you have a year to turn this around?" haha..

Man.. I can't blame you, this has been the worst run franchise in sports that I can ever remember over the last 5 or 6 years or so..

I can't count teams like the Devil Rays or Royals in there.. the Knicks are a HUGE HUGE team, it's unbelievable how bad they've gotten.

Dr. Giganto

Sports Moderator

The Knicks are the most poorly run franchise in professional sports right now.

At least teams like the Royals, Marlins, Hawks, etc aren't plowing through money like crazy. The Knicks are spending 125 million a year (thats like 10 million per player), for a 23-win season. This is terrible. Absolutely fucking terrible.

The Knicks have exactly 3 players I like: Channing Frye, Nate Robinson, David Lee. That's it. And even Frye is toeing the line. Fucking ridiculous.

On the one hand, I'm glad Isiah will be gone after this year, but at the same time, I'm disappointed that he won't get a chance to ruin any other teams.

This is a certifiable disaster.

Crocker

News & Rumors Moderator

Tom you ought to be try being a Man City fan