If you’re a Knicks fan, this season has been depressing, and if you’re a Knicks reporter, this Isiah Thomas-Madison Square Garden regime has been repressing.
Yesterday afternoon, MSG security gardens got physical with Knicks beat reporters when they tried to speak with an ejected fan. CONTINUED »
Former Knicks power guard and ex-childhood hero Charles Oakley was arrested in Georgia for driving erratically.
Well, he's not doing any worse than the current Knicks' line-up.
Thomas’s Criticism Caps Knicks’ Ugly Night [NYT]
Charles Oakley In Lane Violation [The Smoking Gun]
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After an ugly loss last night to the Dallas Mavericks, the Knicks have fallen to an unimpressive 6-14 record, a season low that puts them in a full 8 games below .500. And while many hold coach Isiah Thomas responsible, Thomas has a competing theory: It's all your fault.
• For the second time this year, building management suspends a doorman for having bad breath. Hey, the tenants aren't paying Upper East Side prices to deal with lesser borough unpleasantness like halitosis.
• This round up of MTV's Return To Fat Camp reminds us that overweight people without even the pretense of a healthy body image should never be subject to a reality TV series and the judgment of voyeuristic strangers. That said, boy are those porkers fat.
• At least the Knicks can get along at funerals. Which is fitting, seeing as their hopes for a playoff birth died back in preseason.
• The Botox school of method acting earns Nicole Kidman rave reviews. Meanwhile, Kidman herself had no immediately discernible reaction to the news
• With New York weather this weekend expected to stay in the 30s, we're kind of jealous of this hairy male model.
Sometimes I just have to say, “what the fuck?” "awesome" and the royal we doesn’t work as well. These are my thoughts—raronauer
I find a lot objectionable about the business of America media today. There’s no money for serious journalism, and there’s no interest in it either. While reporting from the Middle East continues to be flawed and inaccurate, sports journalism is still taking itself seriously. And ESPN is leading the way. CONTINUED »
The show must go on…and so must Knicks starting point guard, Stephon Marbury. Even when all the Knicks trainers, fellow players and virtually everybody except Marbury knew that his father had suffered what would turn out to be a fatal heart attack and had to be rushed to the hospital, mid-game.
Good call leaving Marbury in, Isiah! After all, we can't imagine what another loss would do to team morale. Oh, wait. That happened, anyway. [Stereohyped]
The Knicks’ first nationally televised game in years turned into a nationally televised humiliation — a 104-59 rout that served as a striking indictment of the Knicks’ resolve. They appeared to be playing near one another, as opposed to with one another. The scale of their defeat calls into question whether players are either turning on Thomas or perhaps on one another. They all dismissed the idea, but Thomas blasted his players for playing “extremely selfish.”
With seconds to go, the Knicks had 56 points, 2 points shy of the franchise-record low score. They avoided that ignominy when Nate Robinson swished a 37-footer at the final buzzer. The 45-point defeat was the Knicks’ worst in nearly 27 years, since a 131-86 loss at Indiana on Feb. 20, 1980, and tied that game for the third worst loss in franchise history. The Celtics showed some mercy in the final minute, at one point dribbling out the 24-second clock.
–Excerpted from Howard Beck's piece ("Knicks Are A Flop In Prime Time") in The New York Times [Image via NYT]
• Breaking! Brad Pitt to stop doing nude scenes and start making crappy family-friendly films a la Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. And while he's at it, he's also going to offend Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep by insisting that acting is a "younger person's game."
• "A meeting held at Madison Square Garden Wednesday between New York Knicks ownership and head coach Isiah Thomas was interrupted more than half a dozen times by 'Fire Isiah' chants which came at various points throughout the two-hour-long discussion, Knicks officials reported." Okay, fine, so that didn't really happen. But we're thinking it's just a matter of time.
• The most objectively attractive male contestant on Project Runway receives the honor of dressing Tiki Barber. In semi-related news, this is officially the happiest moment of his life since the day he got cheekbone implants.
For all the boys who grow up dreaming of playing for the New York Knicks, there’s a smaller, dorkier contingent of basketball fans who dream of covering the Knicks. And like so many fantasies, this one is better left unrealized.
According to The Observer, the Knicks beat is one of the worst jobs in journalism. (We would have gone with Iraq, but what we do know?) And it’s not just that the Knicks are bad, which they are, it’s that the Knicks organization and the Madison Square Garden are neurotic, micomanagers.
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As the New York Post helpfully pointed out yesterday, the Yankees have shot to 9-2 record [Ed: 10-2, after last night's win] ever since the news first broke about slugger Alex Rodriguez stepping out on his wife with a "buxom blond" stripper.
At the time, we joked that Knicks' coach Isaiah Thomas was said to be encouraging similar acts of sexual deviance from his players in the hopes of revamping their office. We were actually sort of kidding (for the most part) except now it turns out it's kinda true! Apparently, Thomas is hoping to recruit suspected date rapist/known adulterer, Kobe Bryant.
Knicks president/coach Isiah Thomas has not approached the Lakers yet with a firm offer for Kobe Bryant, though he admitted at Orlando's pre-draft camp he concocted a series of tentative offers. Sources say the Knicks would be atop Bryant's and Jermaine O'Neal's wish lists. Bryant has a no-trade clause and can nix any deal.
We'd like to be the first to preemptively welcome Kobe to the team. Who knows, he might just be the spark-plug this struggling Knicks ball club is looking for!
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