Well, the Stephon Marbury circus has found itself back in New York for yet another training camp.  As camp opens up, any positive emotions and excitement that should come with a new season have been mauled by the frenzy created by Marbury’s mere presence.  Donnie Walsh has made it clear that he is not going [...]

David Lee knows what he has to do.
When I asked him what his feelings were, being one of the most productive players per minute in the NBA yet still having to sit behind guys that make more money, he was very clear.
“Those guys (Curry and Randolph) are veterans and I should be behind them. I [...]

What was apparent yesterday, the whole thing about the players being tired of Steph’s act was reiterated by the Bergan Record as well.
But was is more intriguing is that the window of teams who Marbury could go to seem to be closing fast. The Celtics re-signed Sam Cassell and word out of Miami is that [...]

Update: The thing I take from this day is the awkwardness that filled the room. A lot of walking on egg shells. I think that it centers on Marbury, the players seem to want to move on, but can’t with the Marbury distraction. He obviously hasn’t talked with his teammates, and they don’t mind. Marbury [...]

I recently had the chance to sit down with Dan Isenberg, who runs an awesome new blog called Westcheddar, which highlights to goings on of people doin’ their thing and who are from Westchester County.
Check out the Q & A.
The New York Knicks have had a tough time winning ballgames the past few years.  It [...]

We’ll be there tomorrow and judging from many reports in today’s papers, it’s going to be a madhouse.
Marc Berman is reporting Danilo Gallinari will be out most of preseason and is a candidate for the development league.
The Daily News grabbed an Eastern Conference president who agrees with us:
“Who cares if they have to eat $22 [...]

This is a situation really worth paying attention to.
In a time of great financial despair, it would seem as if the Cablevision empire is still on relatively solid ground, so money continues to not be an issue for James Dolan.
However, Dolan mandated that there would be no buyouts under the Isiah Thomas mess, instead forcing [...]

Today Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni payed a visit to WFAN’s Mike Francesa. Besides the usual cliché, “I’m real excited to get going” and “We just gotta play hard”. D’Antoni did share somethings that were somewhat interesting:
D’Antoni stressed that Stephon Marbury won’t be a distraction. he said, “When you win only 23 games most players on [...]

ESPN.com columnist John Hollinger, a good friend of TKB, and the lone intelligent voice on that website, described his self-developed Player Efficiency Rating (PER) as “summing up a player’s positive accomplishments, subtracting the negative accomplishments, and returning a per-minute rating of a player’s performance.”
Simple enough, right? Still, many teams, scouts, and “pundits” don’t buy into [...]