The Knicks Fix

So Ken Berger never made it to Vegas. Or so he says . . .

. . . nice shirt, Ken.

The actuall all-star game was awful. Guys no longer play hard like in the old days, when the big stars took this stuff seriously. Now it's an up-and-down circus of lob-passes to no one, Ole defenses against driving dunks and selfish play. The West seemed to pass more and that's why they blew out the East. It also shows the difference between the two conferences. In the East, there will be more than one sub-.500 team in the playoffs.

You say parity, I say pathetic. Let's call the whole thing off (and just let the West teams play for the title).

But the weekend wasn't a total loss for Knicks fans, who once again didn't have an all-star to cheer for in the game.

You had David Lee winning the Rookie Challenge MVP . . .

. . . and Nate Robinson became a prop in Gerald Green's bid for the Slam Dunk title:

But Nate did show good sportsmanship in stepping in for Green's brilliant dunk, in which he combined Nate's winning leap-over-a-little-guy dunk along with Dee Brown's classic cover-your-eyes dunk. N8 the Gr8 also showed some incredible ups as he tried to defend his title.

Practice resumes today at 2 p.m. at the MSG Training Center in Greenburgh. There are three days to go before the NBA trade deadline. Let me know what you think the Knicks need -- be reasonable, obviously they need Kobe Bryant, but they ain't gettin' him -- and should go for before Thursday.