The Knicks Fix

You know things are getting weird at the Garden when the sophisticated New York crowd starts doing The Wave. But go on and have fun Knicks fans. It's been a while.

And it'll be a while before the Knicks are back home again to enjoy the home-court advantage they'll undoubtedly need in order to get themselves into the playoff race as we approach the final stretch of the season. The Knicks won't play at the Garden again until Feb. 20 against the Orlando Magic -- two weeks from last night's win over the Clippers. We embark on a three-game, six-night road trip to the West on Friday with stops in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Oakland before the all-star break Feb. 16-18.

The Knick bandwagon just blew it's whistle.

All aboard!

"We have some pretty tough challenges coming up, but I think we are up for it," Eddy Curry said of the upcoming trip. "This is a perfect time for us to go out there. We are playing pretty good basketball. I think we are up for the challenge."

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Quick fly-on-the-locker-room-wall stuff that didn't make the paper:

While the media scrum was adoring David Lee's black eye, which came from a Tim Thomas elbow, Quentin Richardson and Nate Robinson were cracking on him.

"Nate, what's worse, the black eye or how he got it?" Richardson said with a chuckle.

"Gettin' dunked on!" Robinson replied.

Yes, the shiner was the added insult of Thomas' powerful jam over Lee in the first quarter. Somehow, we figure, that story will change as the years go by.