Before we acquired either of the two here were the arguments/viewpoints from this fan base especially when inserting variable factors....
Let's start with Bargnani....
He was part of the same team who overpaid for Fields and was bound to be Lottery as stated often times that off-season, part of the same team who when the Rockets did the deal with the OKC and sent the Raptors pick in the deal, Morey was shiat on relatively speaking because many believed that pick to be extremely valuable due to it's Lottery status, part of the same team when it came to discussing Colangelo turning the franchise around his main means of criticism stemmed from selecting Bargnani #1 overall, thinking he was the next Dirk.
When he played well against us most of us thought it to be an aberration because he played way above his head. This fan base has mocked the Raptors for yrs every since Bargnani's arrival. Now that we overpay to get him he's going to resurrect his career here....Srysly what Slick Oil Car Salesman script are you reading from?
Now on to Artest...
The same guy who was part of a Laker team that when D'Antoni was hired was mocked for being hella old and incapable of doing anything significant, part of a team who was steamrolled by OKC and Artest had no answers for Durant, part of the same team some fans said should retire, part of the same team when he decided to legally change his name to MWP, figured he was officially off the rocker.
One again why are you trying to sell salt to a slug?
Now that both are Knicks it's all Tulips and Lilacs now. Get real, anyone with a brain will not allow themselves to be duped by such slanted/linear moves at best.
We should have acquired younger players with potential upside like the Lakers did with Nick Young and Wesley Johnson. Not saying those guys will do wonders in L.A. but point is they are much cheaper in the grand scheme of things and would prove to be more valued league wide had they succeeded 1 season here.
But of course we continue to do what we do best and that's lust for has beens and have nots..STARFUDGING packing it in.
Go ahead and drink your FOOL-AID I'll have none of it.
why are you lurking on this website? are you some latent homo lakers fan who's pissed off?
obviously not a Knicks fan.
Bargnani was hurt the last year and 1/2, and it was only after he dissed the entire Raptors franchise
for sucking (in the Italian press, and it eventually got out to the masses), that all of Canada turned
on him. his stats were highly respectable before he was hurt, and he was the #1 go-to guy on the team.
he doesn't have to be that here, he will be a role player and perhaps a GREAT bench player.
I've never seen a guy with more gumption that Metta World Peace. Every Knick fan worth their salt,
and every New Yorker who saw him play at St. John's knows him for his work regimen, defense, and
ability to make things happen. he was a major part of a LAL championship, Kobe loved playing with
him and didn't want him to leave, and he came back to play 2 weeks after surgery! c'mon!!
he knows what he has to do to fit in (the missing peace), he knows he will be Melo's soldier, Iman
and Chandler's defensive compatriot, and he has shown very little decrease in his abilities to be called
an old man. It's D'amntoni who's the fool who has no clue how to use the player's he's got, and it's that
mustached fu*cking fool who caused Dwight Ho to leave after 1 season. Fu*ck the Lakers, Fu*ck Nick
"i've got a problem" Young, and Fu*ck Wesley Johnson (although I do like his game and potential).
and you diss MWP for single-handedly failing to stop the Durantula? haahhaha.
seriously, your opinions and weak and limp.
Knicks lost very little upgrading the roster for the amount of money they could spend.
I'm happy with Bargs and the artist who used to be known as Artest. very happy.
now stop dissing the O&B, and lurk on the lakers thread instead... the los angeles lurkers.