Lebron

For the last decade the NY Knicks have been stuck in misery.    The demise happened sometime after the ill-fated run to the finals when Ewing had the Achilles injury and Marcus Camby, Allan Houston and Chris Childs put up a valiant effort in the playoffs after a strike-shortened NBA season to go from the 8^th ranked team in the East to the NBA finals.

Of course times haven't been good since then at the Garden and Knick fans have had to put up with the injustice of Scott Laden followed by Isiah Thomas.   But when your entire franchise is banking their future on Lebron James coming to the garden you may very well be living in La-La land and I'm not talking about playing at the Staples Center. 
See the NBA's salary cap is so structured that the Knicks have basically thrown two complete seasons away in order to position themselves to make a play at Lebron this year and honestly nobody in their right mind wants to see this happened.   When the Whitesox threw the world-series in 1919 they were villified, when the Knicks throw two seasons the NBA loves it. 

  Everybody is hoping that the appeal of the big-city will apply to the NBA's biggest star but the Knicks have so depleted their roster, have made so many terrible moves and are no so completely hamstrung with no draft picks that they won't be able to field a decent roster around Lebron for a few years.  

The biggest issue is different though, most Knick fans I speak to don't even want Lebron.  Now I know they don't speak for everybody and the Garden would love to bring some excitement back which LeBron would bring but real Knick fans want to feel they are building their team organically.   There has always been the misconception that the Knicks CAN'T rebuild because the fan-base would revolt and I've never agreed with this concept.  NY is a pretty resilient town and its sportsfans understand that championships aren't bought.   There is no bigger star in NY than the homegrown one and if the Knicks had drafted better, signed less out of shape slobs like Eddy Curry, cripples like McDysses or self-involved psychopaths like Starbury they may have had a core already.   Instead they have a jump shooter, a young back-up point guard and an expiring contract.    Their best player has been a 6'10" whiteboy who plays out of position and doesn't defend and will now demand a max-contract.

The saddest thing though is that not only is the Garden rooting for it but NYC's daily newspapers have LeBron clocks on their webpages with a countdown to June 1^st.    When the media is openly rooting for a player, there is no such thing as being objective anymore.

But at the end of the day a few good Knick fans I know who know and care a lot more about them day to day than I do have made it pretty clear.

 Just Say No to Lebron. 

He sucks anyway