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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
NY1 Interview
Just watched LX NY on Channel 4, doesn't like my interview made the final edit, buuuuut I was on NY1 earlier today and the video is below!
Picture of me at Modell's
I am in the background of this picture wearing my Knicks winter hat! Shoutout to @darrenrovell for tweeting (although I did not see him there)
Modell's Times Square
I'm not in this video but I was in line and in the mad pack of people scrambling and waiting at Modell's this morning. More to come...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Melo State of Mind
It's over. I'm overjoyed that I was wrong in one of my preseason predictions! Check out the Twitter bar to the right of the post for some reactions and extra details about the deal.
I'm going to focus on the main question everyone will be asking - did the Knicks give up too much?
In my opinion... the answer is flat out NO.
Melo is a HUGE upgrade over Wilson Chandler
Billups and Felton are a wash, including that both of their deals expire next summer (in time to get D Will?)
Gallinari would've been relegated to the bench even if we kept him after making the deal
Mozgov is no better than someone like Shelden Williams who we're getting back in the deal
Curry's Expiring and Anthony Randolph were complete non factors all season
It's A LOT harder to get a top 10 talent like Carmelo than it is to find role players willing to play around two stars like Melo and Stoudemire. So say what you want about the depth of the team - which I actually don't mind anyhow with Anthony Carter, Williams and Balkman coming back to us - but stars like Anthony don't come available that often. And as we saw from last summer's free agency frenzy, sometimes the bright lights of Broadway aren't enough to lure them here. Now, with Amare and Melo in town the Knicks have two bona fide stars that WANT to be in the Big Apple, that want the pressure of winning in this town, that want to go up against the mighty Yankees for city-wide supremacy, that want the attention, and that want to play in the world's most famous arena 41+ times a year.
Furthermore, we now have Amare and Melo locked up before the CBA expires this summer, meaning that it could very well much tougher for every team in the league, not just the Knicks, to stock pile stars like the Heat did this past summer. Maybe the rules will still allow for them to go get Chris Paul or Deron Williams at the end of the 11-12 season, but at the very worst, it appears there won't be another team that can pull off something like the Heat did with James, Wade and Bosh.
BREAKING as I type this, the Knicks will also be receiving Corey Brewer from Minnesota in the deal, giving them further wing depth behind Carmelo and Landry Fields. Here are your New York Knicks for the rest of the season:
Chauncey Billups
Landry Fields
Carmelo Anthony
Amare Stoudemire
Ronny Turiaf
Anthony Carter
Toney Douglas
Bill Walker
Corey Brewer
Shawne Williams
Shelden Williams
Roger Mason
Renaldo Balkman
Andy Rautins
Kelenna Azubuike
Look for them to add more front court depth in the form of someone like Earl Barron in the next few days as well.
Something else I think is being overlooked is that with Billups and Melo coming over the transition shouldn't be that hard for this team as a whole to mesh. They may not have enough games left in the schedule to move up the Eastern Conference standings, and it still may take a few weeks for them to come together, they should be VERY dangerous in the first round of the playoffs this year. MSG will be ROCKING with the return of big time basketball to the Mecca, and our new 'big three' all have significant playoff experience. I know the match up will be against Chicago, Miami or Boston, but really only Boston 'scares' me as a bad match up for the Knicks there. I'm not saying I think we can beat Chicago or Miami in a best of seven series without home court, but things just got A LOT more interesting.
As I posted on Facebook earlier tonight, Wednesday night versus the Bucks is Legends Night at the Garden. This year we honor the past AND the present.
Let's go Knicks!
I'm going to focus on the main question everyone will be asking - did the Knicks give up too much?
In my opinion... the answer is flat out NO.
Melo is a HUGE upgrade over Wilson Chandler
Billups and Felton are a wash, including that both of their deals expire next summer (in time to get D Will?)
Gallinari would've been relegated to the bench even if we kept him after making the deal
Mozgov is no better than someone like Shelden Williams who we're getting back in the deal
Curry's Expiring and Anthony Randolph were complete non factors all season
It's A LOT harder to get a top 10 talent like Carmelo than it is to find role players willing to play around two stars like Melo and Stoudemire. So say what you want about the depth of the team - which I actually don't mind anyhow with Anthony Carter, Williams and Balkman coming back to us - but stars like Anthony don't come available that often. And as we saw from last summer's free agency frenzy, sometimes the bright lights of Broadway aren't enough to lure them here. Now, with Amare and Melo in town the Knicks have two bona fide stars that WANT to be in the Big Apple, that want the pressure of winning in this town, that want to go up against the mighty Yankees for city-wide supremacy, that want the attention, and that want to play in the world's most famous arena 41+ times a year.
Furthermore, we now have Amare and Melo locked up before the CBA expires this summer, meaning that it could very well much tougher for every team in the league, not just the Knicks, to stock pile stars like the Heat did this past summer. Maybe the rules will still allow for them to go get Chris Paul or Deron Williams at the end of the 11-12 season, but at the very worst, it appears there won't be another team that can pull off something like the Heat did with James, Wade and Bosh.
BREAKING as I type this, the Knicks will also be receiving Corey Brewer from Minnesota in the deal, giving them further wing depth behind Carmelo and Landry Fields. Here are your New York Knicks for the rest of the season:
Chauncey Billups
Landry Fields
Carmelo Anthony
Amare Stoudemire
Ronny Turiaf
Anthony Carter
Toney Douglas
Bill Walker
Corey Brewer
Shawne Williams
Shelden Williams
Roger Mason
Renaldo Balkman
Andy Rautins
Kelenna Azubuike
Look for them to add more front court depth in the form of someone like Earl Barron in the next few days as well.
Something else I think is being overlooked is that with Billups and Melo coming over the transition shouldn't be that hard for this team as a whole to mesh. They may not have enough games left in the schedule to move up the Eastern Conference standings, and it still may take a few weeks for them to come together, they should be VERY dangerous in the first round of the playoffs this year. MSG will be ROCKING with the return of big time basketball to the Mecca, and our new 'big three' all have significant playoff experience. I know the match up will be against Chicago, Miami or Boston, but really only Boston 'scares' me as a bad match up for the Knicks there. I'm not saying I think we can beat Chicago or Miami in a best of seven series without home court, but things just got A LOT more interesting.
As I posted on Facebook earlier tonight, Wednesday night versus the Bucks is Legends Night at the Garden. This year we honor the past AND the present.
Let's go Knicks!
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