New York Knicks

LeBron James makes his only trip to Madison Square Garden tonight. 

For the past two seasons there has been plenty of talk about LeBron bolting his hometown of Cleveland for the bright lights of New York City. 

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In the NBA these days, it seems like there is a stat for everything. We’ve got PER, offensive efficiency ratings, defensive efficiency rating, and so on and so on.

It seems like every team in the league now employs their own stat guru. And while I’m not one to question the use of all these new statistics to evaluate NBA players (I actually kinda like them), I’m old school. 

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Say Swine Flu keeps spreading. Say it gets worse, like "Outbreak" worse, and the majority of people in the US get it, including LeBron James. I still don't think I could beat him one-on-one. Even if it was first to score. Or if we played "PIG." Remember when Jordan had the flu in the '88 playoffs, and he dropped 47 against the Knicks, AT the Garden??? We spectators/bloggers/sports fans seriously over-estimate the flu. If LeBron had swine flu, not only would he stuff me like a Quizno's Torpedo, he would still be able to beat the following athletes/teams:

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Wild Cards

David Lee, Forward, New York Knicks (15.5, 11.4, 2) – Lee may be a long shot to earn a trip to Phoenix, but in the circus that is Knicks basketball, Lee’s production makes him too good to trade and has New York one game out of the eighth spot in the East. His .569 field goal percentage is sixth best among those who have played 40 or more games, and his 32 double-doubles are good enough for second most in the NBA, leaving him just one behind double-double machine Dwight Howard.

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The Kobes and the LeBrons, excuse me, I mean, the Lakers and the Cavs met for the first time this season a week ago today in Los Angeles, and while the home team won by 17 in an uneventful game where James matched his number in points and Bryant’s 20 weren’t even a team-high, it did give basketball’s so-called pundits another opportunity to debate who’s better: Kobe or LeBron.

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Did you miss me?  Sorry for the extended hiatus once again, but I was busy being cooped up in a metal box for days on end, plus I had to go ahead and lose all of my money to various undeserving casinos and their patrons, so I've had no time to reflect on the world of sports.  Many of you are probably expecting to read (or at least skim) some bitter, semi incoherent rambling post about Tom Brady's left knee and the dirty Chiefs and the especially classless fans of the NFL who actually had the gall to celebrate and commemorate a horrific injury to the league's best player, but I've gotta leave something for Simmons to do, so that will not be a part of my post today.  Instead, I'm going to hide from my problems inside the twisted world of the NBA, where my beloved Boston Celtics are still champions, and my mistresses, the Portland Trailblazers are looking better than ever and are brimming with talent and potential.

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Tonight, the Celtics square off against their bizarro alter-egos, the New York Knicks. The Knicks represent everything that is wrong with professional basketball, from the owner on down to the end of their pathetic bench, seeming to suffer from a terminal case of every kind of clubhouse cancer or disease (insert Marbury/Isiah joke here) imaginable.  The Celtics built their reputation this season by playing hard for the entire game and having unmatched intensity and focus on the court.  The Knicks, on the other hand, mail it in almost every night without shame or remorse.  The Knicks don't hustle, they don't pass, they don't play defense, and they don't play as a team.  Despite one of the NBA's highest payrolls, the Knicks have stumbled to a disappointing total of 23 wins this season.  They're not up to the losing standards of the 14 win Miami Heat, but they may actually be more disappointing than the scrubs of South Beach.  

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