After three quarters here at the Garden. Knicks losing by 10. Here's the scoop on the Curry prediction....it never happened.
As we were trying to figure out the origin of this so-called prediction by Eddy Curry, which the Pacers players were talking about before the game, it was discovered that one reporter who spoke with Curry made a joke at this morning's shoot-around that Curry just told him he guaranteed a Knicks win.
Someone overheard it and took it as fact and ran with it...all the way to the Pacers locker room.
Gotta love New York.
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Can't we just give the Knicks to Brooklyn, along with their Brooklyn Boy "Falling-Star-bury", and take the Nets to Manhatten instead?
Surely that's the lesser of 2 evils at this point?
The " officials " must have taken that personally. Because they sure made sure Eddy Curry , was beat up by Foster ,and Murphy.David Stern should be investigated. Where did he get these officials, from Larry Bird. The ugly complextion of racism is alive and well in the NBA. Aslong as White men need to feel better. The Game will Never as good as Street Ball.
the "fire isiah" chants were nothing compared to the "WE WANT NATE" chants. That is the best chant of all time, i love how mardy gets garbage time at the end and nate doesn't, probably cus whatever the knick fans want isiah won't give them, like a decent season or even playing nate robinson in garbage time.
I hate Isiah a little bit more after each Knicks game/loss. Same with that other moron, Dolan.
ANOTHER maddening blowout by the gang that couldn't shoot straight. And, could Curry please hold on to the the ball? Until they are disallowed because of some "guarded by a white guy" rule, his turnovers kill the offense - as much as Crawford's "shooting".
Kenneth, however you define good coaching, Isiah fails to measure up.
The only answer is to totally ignore the Knicks. Don't go to games. Don't watch MSG. Don't buy Knicks merchandise. Dolan/Thomas don't care about the boos, as long as there are people in the seats doing the booing, they are happy.
Alan, you do a great job with this blog and the Knick beat. However, you deserve better. Maybe Newsday can move you to the Yankees beat?
Kwame
While I can appreciate your frustrations and comments, what I feel I need to point out is - even if what you said is true, your comments in themselves are inherently racist and only serve to perpetuate the attitudes you are opposing.
Peace
The Knicks just simply need a trade. Get the bums like Q-Rich, Jared Jefferies, Mardy Collins off of this team. They give you nothing!! I think Jamal Crawford needs to come off the bench and be a Vinnie Johnson type player. The Knicks need to do whatever it takes to get Artest on this roster. Artest's pure will to want to win is needed to infect this team and he has the size to step up to ANY player who doesn't bring forth the effort. He's not called the "Tru Warrior" for nothing!!
Alan – is there any indication that Isiah is even trying to make some moves? Wasn’t it just last week when he said he was happy with the team the way it is? And didn’t he say last year that this is a team he can win with. Do we take him at his word? I sure hope not. He can’t be that blind, can he? He’s gotta see that more drastic changes are needed . . . doesn’t he? Any rumors floating around? Is there ANY hope for anything other than more of the same?
With a rational management team you could expect the GM and coach to be fired very soon. I don’t trust Dolan to act rationally, nor in the team’s best interests. He can’t fire Isiah because he refuses to acknowledge that maybe there was some substance to all the media criticism of Isiah. In Dolan’s twisted ego-driven management style, it would be like saying they were right and he was wrong . . . especially for that contract extension . . . even if firing Isiah is exactly what the team needs. It’s the world’s most public case of cognitive dissonance.
Trane - I was wondering the same thing myself. Why does it seem like there is absolutely nothing happening on the trade front - not just with the Knicks, but with anybody? Besides that Nazr Mohammed trade, it seems like nobody is moving anyone anywhere.
Like Alan says, we need a PG and a defensive big. It won't be a cure-all, but it would undoubtedly change the way this team looks at themselves. Right now, it's as if they're all just happy to collect their paychecks, win or lose.
And I truly believe that Eddy Curry should be dealt. Put him on the right team and he'll become an offensive monster again - but this ain't the right team or the right city. He needs a clean break and a new start somewhere else, with forwards who can take up his slack on the defensive end.
And we need a big man who can D up.
Trane - I was wondering the same thing myself. Why does it seem like there is absolutely nothing happening on the trade front - not just with the Knicks, but with anybody? Besides that Nazr Mohammed trade, it seems like nobody is moving anyone anywhere.
Like Alan says, we need a PG and a defensive big. It won't be a cure-all, but it would undoubtedly change the way this team looks at themselves. Right now, it's as if they're all just happy to collect their paychecks, win or lose.
And I truly believe that Eddy Curry should be dealt. Put him on the right team and he'll become an offensive monster again - but this ain't the right team or the right city. He needs a clean break and a new start somewhere else, with forwards who can take up his slack on the defensive end.
And we need a big man who can D up.
Sorry for the double post - server's acting squirrely.
Don -- I agree about Eddy, but Isiah can't move Eddy for the same reason that Dolan can't fire Isiah. He’d have to admit he made a mistake. He’d have to admit how bad the trade was. And Isiah will never do that. I always said I thought Isiah got ripped off to some degree. (Do we really think Paxon would have walked away from the table if Isiah had insisted on lottery-protecting AT LEAST ONE of those draft picks? If not both? Very doubtful. He really wanted to dump Eddy, and nobody was lined up behind Isiah to take him.) But, to be fair to Isiah, I never imagined the trade would turn out to be as much of a disaster as it has. (Certainly not as terrible as Joe Barry Carroll for McHale and Parish, but pretty terrible. TWO lottery picks. Wow. And the real shame is, Isiah probably could have done better with those picks that Paxon did.) Certainly, Isiah had every reason to expect Eddy would have developed better. And I’m not 100% convinced he still can’t. (Speaking of a management decision that was ego-driven – Isiah and Dolan really are soul-brothers, the more I think about it – Isiah’s refusal to sign Ewing when he reached out to the Knicks for the job of mentoring Eddy has only compounded how disastrously the trade has worked out for the Knicks. It’s possible Isiah could have salvaged it to a large degree, even turned it in our favor, if Patrick were working with Eddy instead of Aguirre. Look how well it’s worked in LA, with Kareem teaching Bynum. Make’s me sad, and a little angry about the self-righteous Knicks fans, who idolize Isiah, even when he shows such disrespect to such a great Knick as Patrick. Are memories really that short? But that’s another issue.)
But that’s all just more New York Knicks management psycho-drama, standing in the way of doing what’s best for the New York Knicks.
Alan it was your cohort at the NY Post Marc Berman who made up the Curry hoax. Pretty classy move by him. NOT!
Eddy Curry is a hoax. Seven turnovers and two lousy rebounds.
I wish this trade was. I remember asking my friend "Wait, we traded 2 #1 picks for a guy who'se proven nothing AND has a heart condition?"
He just laughed and basically shook his head. I mean, how do you make this trade? Man, I'd give anything to get paid just because I'm tall.
That said, it shows how desperate some are to get a scoop. Of course, I'd like to say that the only reason the Knicks were blown out is because the Pacers were motivated. But the Knicks can't even beat themselves...