Somebody needs to get Spike Lee on board. The masses would follow.

I have Time Warner cable and frankly have no need for MSG or FSNY. Getting those off extended basic could be a start.

Let’s make that stat even more scary with the stat I’ve been throwing around lately. The last 19 championships have been won by 5, yes 5 teams. 6 by the Bulls, 5 by the Lakers, 3 by Detroit, 2 by Houston, and 3 by SA. If you add the Celtics 2 and Sixers 1 in the 80′s you can say that the last 26 have been won by only 7 teams. In fact going all the way back to 1959 only adds 7 more teams. So only 14 teams in 47 years (and this year probably won’t change that stat since Detroit or SA will win).

Just wanted to add some facts to support your post. Bottom line is that the history of the NBA championship is the history of the Bulls (Jordan Era), the Celtics and the Lakers. 15 championships for the Celtics and 9 for the Lakers since 1959. That’s half the championships for two teams!

Facing the reality might help the Knicks fans and management realize building a competitive team should be the goal, and then try to get lucky to turn that team into a contender. Trying to just build a championship team is impossible.

Thomas, I mean no harm whatsoever in this, but…

I doubt the Denver Nuggets would want to acquire Marbury’s services since they have a solid 4 gaurd rotation (Miller-Boykins-DeMarr Johnson-Howard Eisley) and are psuedo-contenders in the West already, so acquiring a player like Stephon would only needlessly break things up.

Also, for Rose, if by third rounder you mean a third round draft pick, that’s impossible because the draft only has two rounds. And no one wants Jerome James. Only Isaiah and his mother could love him at this point, and his mother’s been impatient with him lately.

Also, the reason we can’t just trade away the bad players and wash our hands of them is because being over the cap, all of the trades we could attempt must be within 10% of a salary match between the players offered and recieved. So, if we trade QR’s $7 million a year, we need to recieve at least over $6 million back in return for the trade to go through. That’s the problem we face right now with all of our bad contracts. The only trades not involving the “rookie 3″ possible are large scale, large salary proposals.

As for the anymosity for Dolan and Isaiah, not enough has been shown because, relatively speaking, enough not is possible, so it’s impossible to give anything more than not enough. It makes sense to me anyways.

As shitty as this Knicks team was, it wasn’t even the shittiest team in the league, and the Knicks shouldn’t have BEEN this shitty.

So I think that the Knicks should be able to improve next year, enough so that they are not giving up the #1 pick in the draft to the Bulls.

So what is the point of my rant? The only way the Knicks will become a championship contender (and let?s not kid ourselves ? we would only be content if they were championship contenders and not simply playoff contenders) is if they acquire a superstar through the draft. Which is why the Eddie Curry trade is so disheartening. The Knicks could have tanked next year (or intentionally tank a la Cleveland Cavs in 2004) and would have had a great shot of drafting Greg Oden, who, by judging from all the hype around this kid, is the real deal. But in all likelihood, the Knicks will have the first pick in 2007, Chicago will swap the pick and Greg Oden will fall into Chicago?s lap just like Jordan did back in the day.