It looks like the calendar is showing that the next Knick season is just a few days away. All the NBA previews are up and running, and not surprisingly, each Knick preview reads as if it was an excruciating one to write. I guess this is what the Knicks have become: just another spectacularly mediocre bottom feeder team to cover.

Knicks looking good after two preseason wins over Philadelphia (101-92) and Maccabi Tel Aviv(112-85). In both wins the Knicks performed well. With contributions from the starters and the bench, as well as some valuable contributions from the rookies. But these wins didn't come against the "NBA elite" They came against a struggling NBA team and against a foreign team. Yes they crushed Tel Aviv, and that was bound to happen. The Knicks are an NBA team.

Season is just around the corner! Finally some basketball. There should be some last minute trade buzz around the league in coming weeks. The Knicks have to be among those teams most talked about they have a ton of players. Thank god for preseason basketball. Is it just me or was anyone else getting tired of all the off court issues. I don't have much to say about those issues except that they are office related. I'm a basketball fan. I just can't wait for the focus to switch back to basketball. I am not going to concern myself with the non basketball related business operations of MSG.

Do not blame Isiah! It is primarily Layden’s fault, with a little help from Brown.

The following history is lengthy, but I have always felt that the media was unfair to Isiah so I decided to do some homework.

Scott Layden was hired as General Manager on August 11, 1999. He replaced Ed Tapscott who was an interim General Manager. Tapscott’s parting gift was selecting Frederic Weis over Ron Artest in the 1999 draft.

The success of the New York Knicks will heavily rely upon three players, Eddy Curry, Channing Frye and Jared Jeffries. We have yet to see the full potential of these three players, yet Curry has been referred to as the corner stone of the franchise on several occasions. Frye had a great rookie season and a not so good second season and Jeffries was brought in specifically to fill the Knicks defensive void.

Well, it's been quite some time since the last entry on the blog. The season is now over, the playoffs are having their fun without us and the offseason talk is not far away. I would have loved a playoff seed for us, even though 3 of the 4 matchups resulted in sweeps, i think with a little luck, we might have won at least one game. It's been some time since the last one, huh? 2001.. that's over 6 years of suffering and a tragic 0-4 playoff record.

After a break of almost one year, the downloads section has been updated with a brand new wallpaper of sophomore Nate Robinson.