I truly appreciate your concern. I’m good. In fact, I’m really good. New super-sweet and super-hot girlfriend. I go back and forth trying to figure out if she’s more sweet to me, or more hot. It’s a really nice conundrum for me to deal with, and not one that I’m used to. (One usually gets one or the other of those attributes, but not both…….especially at my age.)

Anyway, I’m just busy. But yes, Tyrese Haliburton indeed only has one letter “L” in his last name. And I sure as hell wish he was a Knick.

– We drafted Obi over Hali, a thing that stirred a lot of discussions here (and in every corner of the Knicks Universe)

– Now the Pacers have Hali and Obi, we have 2 second round picks.

From a comedy standpoint it’s too good not to joke about it every now and then… 😀

JB’s an excellent player and, at least for me, the FO teases about Hali have nothing to do with him, it’s a different conversation.

I like to mock the Kings’ FO for the same reason, first they passed Luka for Bagley (and their GM was fired for that) then two years later the new GM had the luck of Hali falling in his lap… and traded him (I understand a Fox-Hali backcourt would ‘ve need a lot of work on their egos, but still…).

This isn’t just some kind of hot streak. Hali had a phenomenal season last year and made the all-star team over Brunson, despite missing a bunch of games with an injury.

I love me some Jalen Brunson. But right now there’s really no comparison. And Hali is a lot of things, but he’s not Trae Young. Could he cool off? Sure. But it seems pretty sustainable, maybe not at this level, but close.

Agreed, but also, let me tease out something I particularly agree about here – “I love me some Jalen Brunson.” That the Knicks fucked up on Hali is a certainty, but, well, I mean, come on, they still acquired Jalen Brunson, and it’s nowhere near the level of Brunson being the “at home” version of “We have McDonalds at home,” he’s an excellent player in his own right! I really don’t see much point stewing on Hali at this point. It was a major screwup, he’s a star player, but it was years ago, nothing to see here, and just appreciate the (lesser) star player the Knicks do have, who is pretty darn awesome in and of himself!

I legit don’t even think about the Hali pick any more when I watch the Pacers play, except to think, at times, “Oh, I guess the site will be talking about this later.”

EB, pretty sure we had that very same 20-10-5 PF in our employ when Hali was available, but there is no chance Dolan would have signed off on trading a “star” for a prospect. Nor is there any reason to believe SAC would have accepted Randle over Sabonis. It turns out that not all 20-10-5 guys are created equal, and ours has a few quirks that make his trade value lower than just about every other 20-10-5 guy to ever play.

Yes, any team would take him for free, but no one is giving up real value for him and even if they were, this franchise has never been bold enough to make a move like that in my lifetime except for when we had the worst GM in NBA history.

Missing the point, but go off

i have to imagine in a creative setting with others – it’s like a whole different level of “job” satisfaction…like a drug…

As for Haliburton being the best Knick of all time, it’s not by a country mile, but there’s actually a seed of possible truth to it, which is crazy in and of itself. And he looks like he plays on the 70s Knicks too, with his ugly slow shot and his high assist to turnover ratio. It would be cool if he wore super short shorts and converse sneaks, even if it was just for the in season tournament.

This is misleading. As the games went on, Kerr went more to Hali, and Hali generally outplayed Brunson in his minutes.

This isn’t just some kind of hot streak. Hali had a phenomenal season last year and made the all-star team over Brunson, despite missing a bunch of games with an injury.

I love me some Jalen Brunson. But right now there’s really no comparison. And Hali is a lot of things, but he’s not Trae Young. Could he cool off? Sure. But it seems pretty sustainable, maybe not at this level, but close.