Have you voted for Amar’e, Danilo and Felton today?  I hope so.

I can honestly say I would be surprised if we lost the game today.

This despite the fact that ESPN has the Lakers as 81% favorites to win tonight. Notice how they reformat the odds so that they’re not directly related to gambling odds.

Anyway, here is a good preview article by ESPN on tonight’s competition.

The Knicks will be without Danilo Gallinari, and the Lakers will be without Matt Barnes. Both have sustained knee injuries that will keep them out indefinitely.

The Lakers have gotten the best out the Knicks in the recent years, but New York is riding a 9-game winning streak against Western Conference opponents this season.

I suppose Landry Fields will be re-inserted back into the starting lineup as Toney Douglas started last game to match up with Phoenix’s small ball lineup.  Fields may have to guard Kobe.  I expect Chandler to guard Kobe at times as well.

Too bad we don’t have Gallo to match up against the longer Pau Gasol.  We will have Shawne Williams, however, and I don’t think he is on the scouting report’s radar, yet.

That is the virtue of this Donnie Walsh designed New York Knicks basketball team. Tonight we face a longer opponent and according to Amar’e Stoudemire, this Knicks team can adjust and compete with any team in the league.

In Donnie, I trust. Why should I believe otherwise at this point?

That goes for anything he, and he alone decides up to the trading deadline too.

Felton should try for back-to-back triple doubles, that would be something…

MSNBC’s Sam Smith thinks the best way to save the knicks would be to trade for Kobe Bryant.

As O&B has already pointed out, sources out of LA report KB24 is not exactly off the table.

Buss, 74, also said Bryant was not necessarily off the table now that the new season had started. Offers will inevitably continue to trickle in, particularly if the Lakers struggle before the February trade deadline.

“I would certainly listen,” Buss said. “At any time, I think you have to do that with anybody. It’s just part of the game, to listen to somebody who has a dissatisfied player that you think is going to fit. You can’t keep too many loyalties. You’ve got to look at it as a business. He looks at it the same way I look at it.”