Great piece today from Will Leitch in New York Magazine on the Knicks.
“…As President Obama could tell you, there comes a certain point in your administration when the predecessor’s mess becomes your mess.
When Donnie Walsh took over as the Knicks’ president eighteen months ago, his mission was clear: Clean up Isiah Thomas’s carnage. Thomas’s ineptitude [...]

Jamal Crawford. Nice guy, low IQ basketball player. Flashy, and skilled, but weak and flawed.
That said, I always thought he’d be a good bench guard for 25 minutes per, sometimes more. But as far as looking back on his tenure, Zags caught up with him and here’s his take on the current Knicks and 2010:
“…NEW [...]

There has been plenty said about how Mike D’Antoni’s system can inflate a player’s stats, but foxsports.com’s John Galinsky “lists 10 current players who put up big numbers but aren’t as valuable as their stats suggest.” Believe it or not, four of the 10 are current or former Knicks, but none are Suns.
“…3. Al Harrington
2008-09 [...]

I heard several reports earlier in the eason stating that Jamal Crawford was going to opt out from the remaining near $20 million of his giftwrapped deal from Ole St. Zeke. You heard them too:
“Imagine Crawford in D’Antoni’s system, he’ll be an All-Star!”
I didn’t believe them by any stretch of the imagination. I “imagined” Donnie’s [...]

Got an interesting email from Mike from whatifsports.com, a site dedicated to going  above and beyond the game. Mike broke down the Knicks before and after the the Zach and Crawford trades and came up with some interesting info.
“…I wanted to evaluate the Jamal Crawford and Zach Randolph trades. At the time I was disappointed [...]

How about them Warriors! By taking down CP3 and the New Orleans Hornets,Golden State has creeped with in 2 games of the Knicks, or should I say vice versa.
Jamal Crawford is helping out his old team with some solid play down the stretch as the streaky guard netted 39 points leading the Warriors to a [...]

Word out of Golden State is that Don Nelson isn’t all to happy with Jamal Crawford and has recently benched the ex-Knick in the hopes that he opts out at season’s end.
“…I’ve heard that when Nelson explained Crawford’s recent one-game benching, he spoke about getting the younger players more time, etc, etc.
But Nelson also told [...]

If you root for a sports team over a considerable period of time, you find that there are players who become touchstones and/or who encompass what it means to be alive at a particular time and place in history. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the best player on t, but for some reason, that [...]

SNY.tv Knicks columnist Rich Zuckerman and TheKnicksBlog.com’s Tommy Dee sit down to discuss the latest happenings around Madison Square Garden.
Rich: For most of the early part of the season, it’s seemed that the New York Knicks have been able to maintain Mike D’Antoni’s uptempo pace and intensity for the first three quarters of games before [...]

Remember the show on Nickelodeon called “Double Dare”? Man, now I’m dating myself. It was the show where kids battled against kids in attempt to win prizes- a discomfited combination of children’s trivia, Disney Land and mud wrestling.
If you don’t, that means you probably didn’t vote a few weeks ago.
The host, Marc Summers, would ask [...]