The Knicks Fix

While you're at the job working 9 to 5
The Beastie Boys at The Garden cold kickin' it live

Doubt that's ever going to change to "Beastie Boys at The Barclays Center cold kickin' it live."

But I'm not hating. I'm just following up on yesterday's hastily-written blog on the Nets move to Brooklyn and James Dolan's seemingly apathetic reaction. No matter what the score or the record, the Nets have been and continue to be no threat to his team just like the Barclays Center won't be a threat to his Garden. Dolan probably wouldn't even flinch if Brooklynite Spike Lee changed affiliations. But Spike's a loyalist. And he knows courtside at Barclays won't have the same cache.

(Just waiting for Spike to pull out the David Lee jersey by the way. He's always supported the heart-and-soul players on the Knicks. This would be fitting because they share the same surname. So soon enough he'll be showing Double-D Lee some love, right?)

Back to Dolan . . . JD's sure shot is to get a new arena, himself. Across 8th Ave. at the old Post Office building. MSG V will have everything Barclays Center has and more: a Manhattan address. So that's why Dolan, as a member of the NBA's Advisroy Finance Committee (kind of ironic he's on this committee, no?), voted in favor of the Nets' planned move into the Knicks' backyard. This while he was spending millions to fight Woody Johnson's proposed West Side Stadium.

Dolan says he was against the West Side Stadium because it included public money and is in support of Bruce Ratner's Brooklyn plan because it will be financed privately. But while Dolan made a big deal about distrupting the quality of life on the West Side in the lobbying against the Jets, he has pretty much ignored how Ratner's plan will be a major distruption of those residents near the Atlantic Yards.

The Barclays Center will be a premeir venue, there's little doubt. It'll be brand new and the plans call for state-of-the-art everything. The Nets are a premeir NBA franchise and even as Jason Kidd gets old they'll likely still be an elite team when the move to BK takes place in 2009.

But they'll never have a Manhattan address and without that, you're always No. 2. Even if the team that plays in the No. 1 venue continues to play like No. 2.