The Knicks have a new starting center:  defensively talented Tyson Chandler.

Chandler isn’t much of a scorer but with Melo and STAT that may be a good thing.  One basketball may not be enough for those two considering their talent for scoring.

This is good news for Amar’e's back issues too, no more will Stoudemire play center, hopefully.

Gone are Turiaf, Billups and Rautins, all casualties of this acquisition.  Gone also is close to $60 million in cap space, maybe the Knicks should try to get Nash for cheap next season.

Just bloggin’

The depth chart now finds its weakest link at point guard, where Shumpert and Toney Douglas are still waiting to prove their relative worth.

Can Toney Douglas play a full season without injuries so he can prove his abilities at the NBA level?  How good is Shumpert?  Is he a real point guard or merely another OJ Mayo type of NBA player?

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I’m all for improving  New York’s defense, but, last time I checked, Chandler’s numbers were nothing special.

“Chandler was an important contributor during the Mavericks’ run to last season’s NBA championship, averaging 10.1 points, 9.4 rebounds and 1.1 blocks in 74 games”

Those are close to Eddy Curry numbers.  Are we going to reward him with an Eddy Curry contract drafted by Isiah and signed by fanboy Dolan?

We are talking about almost $60 million and no more cap room for CP3 or Dwight, for a guy that can’t average a double-double on a championship caliber team?

Isiah must still be in charge.

Donnie would be more patient, find the perfect fit for the right amount.

Chandler might be a defensive upgrade, but at the cost of not having any more cap space to sign the other free agents of 2012?

By the way, who the hell is in charge of New York right now, Grunwald?  That’s like saying Isiah is in charge as far as I am concerned.

Walsh got new York under the cap and back in the playoffs, two thing Isiah Thomas could never do in his life.

If the philosophy is to go out and spend on anyone without patience or rational though, then I say welcome back, Zeke.

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Wojo has the scoop here.

I guess I shouldn’t get rid of my season tickets.

Still have a bad taste in my mouth after the Melo trade.

Do NBA fans have to endure another year of NBA “superstars” holding the league hostage?

If you recall last year’s trade deadline, or the “Melodrama” as it were, other NBA teams would not make deals until the Knicks-Nuggets deal was consummated.

I hope the new CBA can address all of this selfishness.  The NBA fans are dropping off like flies.

Then again, a good Knicks team is good for the league.

But then again, a Dolan-led Knicks team, can’t be good for the Knicks.

Donnie Walsh, you are already missed.

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Carmelo > Gallo

(or so everyone believes)

BUT

Felton+Gallo+Chandler+Mozgov > Six extra Million in Carmelo’s pocket that the average Knicks fan could care less about

He could have walked on in the summer and we would still have those guys instead of shit players like Renaldo Balkman.

There is much hype over the Knicks right now.  They used to trash us for years.  Now everybody wants a piece of our team.  I see Knicks hats everywhere where for the past 10 years they were sparse.  You know, chances are you understand the bandwagon annoyance because you are a die-hard.

But Melo was being selfish as hell by forcing that trade.  I am questioning his team-first ability because of this.

We had a good team already built up.  Now we have stopgaps and a wish for CP3, an yet-to-be 100% healthy Amar’e, and Carmelo and his six extra million.

He should have walked on as a free agent.  He enjoyed making the whole league talk about Melodrama and the forced trade.

Does he want to win a title, or just have a similar legacy as LeBron, one of the top 3 players in the league but no real desire to win a title.

If he wants a title, he should have walked on in the summer and not forced that trade.  Our team would have had a better shot.

Next Knick:  Mike Miller?

I hope not.  I’d rather have Baron Davis.

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He’s from Florida, which is where his new home is. Hard to imagine basketball could get you all of this, but this is the American dream made possible by the sports industry.  The NBA is a four billion dollar a year business.

…Would you trade STAT for Dwight so that he could be closer to his new home?

just bloggin’

Shout out to Syd Harewood for the link.

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The new nba season will begin on Christmas day and will last 66 regular-season games.

Hopefully free agency will begin soon so that the knicks can address their many deficiencies created by the carmelo anthony trade, most notably at center and both guard positions.

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Amar’e's back is still hurt?  From one game of the first round of playoffs in April?

I always thought of Steve Kerr as an over-rated GM but could he have predicted Amar’e was done more accurately than Nostradamus predicted Napoleon?

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Knicks starting point guard Chauncey Billups is willing to give up his $14 million contract this season, if it means the league is in better shape going forward.

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The same people that brought you “The Decision” now give you this piece of propaganda:  ”its all Stern’s fault there’s an NBA lockout.”

Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to get my basketball fix watching college and high school.  I’ve never seen a Saint Anthony’s game so that is now on the agenda.  I am minutes from many college venues, I will expect the worst and hope for the best when it comes to this New York Knicks lockout.  I used to have the same philosophy about THE Knicks, now that Donnie Walsh righted Isiah and Dumbass Dolan’s sinking ship, the universe (or Ewing Curse depending on who you ask) would rather see a lockout than another relatively successful Knicks season.

Oh well.

I hear the Garden modifications are ugly.

Oh well.

Way to fuck up yet again, Jimmy boy.

Should have build a new Garden like we told you to the first time.

Oh well.

The Ewing curse lives into 2011, at least for this November.

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