Zach Randolph is out with a sore right foot. He apparently hurt it in the fourth quarter of Friday's loss in Atlanta. He ran some sprints during pregame warmups to test it, but they pulled him out of the lineup.
Jared Jeffries gets the start.
It's Latin Night here at Amway Arena. Carlos Arroyo gets the start.
Without Z-Bo, Isiah Thomas says to expect Eddy Curry to get big minutes against Superman, uh, Dwight Howard.
Let's see.
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It's always cool for me to chat with Patrick Ewing, who was my favorite player as a kid. How many of you out there had to listen to those bandwagoning Bulls fans dis Big Pat all the time and did all you could to defend the Big Fella? The night he stood on the scorer's table after dumping the Pacers, his arms open....good memories.
I asked him if he was able to catch the end of the Georgetown game against Marquette, which went into OT. Patrick (as you all know his son, Patrick Jr., plays for the Hoyas) said he was watching at home and realized the time and had to get to the arena for tonight's game. He gets to Amway Arena only to see CBS jump to the Florida game.
"I don't want to see Florida!" Patrick yelled.
Told that kind of statement would be the cause of negative headlines around these parts, Patrick replied, "I don't care! If I have a choice between Florida and Georgetown I choose Georgetown!"
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I appreciate the note, MAK. It's not an easy time around Newsday right now. I don't know what's going on with the buyouts and what's happening with the staff. But you can expect the Knicks Fix to remain in full effect, which is a very 80s hip-hop thing to say.
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STARTING LINEUPS
KNICKS
Richardson
Jeffries
Curry
Crawford
Robinson
MAGIC
Turkoglu
Lewis
Howard
Evans
Arroyo
Enjoy Latin Night. Wherever you are.
Comments (13)
Buenas noches everybody.
How do you say 'we frickin suck' in Spanish?
knicks must have challenged record for most possessions without a pass before shooting in first half...seattle connexion
march 1st, 41 losses. is this the fastest knick team to lose half a season?
so let me get this straight, zbo goes down, and jeffries starts? this could be the worst starting front line in modern nba history: curry, jeffries, q-rich.
someone please explain to me again how isiah earned a reputation for an eye for talent.
I laugh every time I think of Isiah’s ludicrous (desperate?) reference to his “contract” as “proof” that he’ll be here next year. I don’t deny that Dolan could be stupid enough to keep Isiah for another season. But invoking the contract as proof borders on unbalanced. And I thank pman for going out of his way to remind us how absurdly out of touch with reality Isiah has become.
Forget Larry Brown . . . does somebody need to remind Isiah that Lenny Wilkins also had a contract? Lenny Wilkins also had the only Isiah team that even sniffed .500. He was fired on January 22, 2005. The Knicks were 17 and 22 for the season (40 and 41, overall, since he was hired). Isiah Thomas has wet dreams over 17 and 22, and being just 5 games under .500. When Isiah had 17 wins, he had 38 losses. But he fired Lenny Wilkins for doing twice as good a job as he’s doing. Go figure . . .
We’ve gone from 17 and 22 to 18 and 41. In three years Isiah’s taken a bad team and made them significantly worse. But Isiah has a contract. So did Jalen Rose. So did Maurice Taylor. So did Sonny Corleone (oops, wrong kind of contract).
@ Giaps
I don't speak spanish but according to freetranslation.com it's
nosotros el joder chupo
As the Weasel might say: we lost again, there are four other teams with at least 40 losses, and Charlotte has 39. So we're right in the middle of things.
Isiaih Era almost over!!! Keep losing, Knicks!
The Kiki meter has moved up...
Berger to Plano for the Obit wiz.
Nix Hahn entirely. Home Depot needs someone with his (devoid of) talents.
All the lonely people,
where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
where do they all belong?
Yesterday, all my blogging seems so far away,
Now I need a name to hide to stay, oh I believe in yesterday!
Why I ...had to go I don't know, he didn't say,
Lonely...he's Mr. Lonely.....LOL
Shortage of troll food forseen! Stay tuned!
This is what Dolan said after firing Larry Brown:
“At this time next year, Isiah will be with us if we can all sit here and say that this team has made significant progress towards its goal of eventually becoming an NBA championship team. If we can't say that, then Isiah will not be here."
If he keeps his promise, we’ll be fine. Isiah will be history. If he doesn’t . . . be very afraid.
JARVIS VANARDO had 11, 10 & 7 blks yesterday. get this man in a knicks uniform next year !!!!