A Very Wrong Engagement

As in basketball and life, timing is everything. The Knicks picked the exact wrong year to suck eggs. I picked the wrong year to return to New York.


Not that it was really a choice for either of us. NYU has the best film scoring program in the nation located in a city with remotely adequate public transportation to haul my blind ass from A to B. And the Knicks have been bottom dwellers for so many years now that this season's failure should be looked at more as a certainty rather than an option. Still, if you could pick any year to have the worst record in the league, next year would have been infinitely better. Bud Lightyears better.

Two words for you Isiah: Greg Oden.



The draft class of 2007 is vastly superior to the class of 2006. I would trade an 06 for an 07 any day -- Tyrus Thomas, Joakim Noah, and LaMarcus Alrdidge are role players next to Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, and Brandon Wright. Unspeakable joy will reverberate off the five points if NYK could suck as bad next year as this year.

This should be the goal. Not Kevin Garnett. Not Paul Pierce. You are running out of overpaid disgruntled superstars to keep your Good Ship Lollipop afloat. And by "afloat" I mean worse than the Bobcats and $70 million over the cap. There aren'y even any other dumb teams out there you can pawn your unsuperstars off on--Toronto just got smarter, the Clippers are set in the backcourt (and wouldn't overpay anyway)--I'd even be suprised if the Hawks would take Fracharbury. Maybe you could get Al Harrington Josh Childres, if you're lucky.

But the window of opportunity may close as the Larry Brown All-Dollars scrape themselves together to miss both the playoffs and the top five picks next season. It's been nice living in Providence this year and watching the young Celtics develop--I would love to see 82 Oden games on MSG while writing my master's thesis, but I guess I'll have to buy league pass or something. Because the talent ain't on Broadway, baby.