In a few more seasons, the Knicks will be going to Brooklyn regularly to play the Nets, or whatever Bruce Ratner wants to call his team once it clears out of the swamps of Jersey.
But Thursday, the Knicks will go to Brooklyn for a trip that wasn't in their plans when the NBA released the schedule back in July. It's the worst kind of trip, too. The sole purpose is to pay their final respects to Don Marbury.
In what has been an amazing season of upheaval and turmoil for the Knicks, starting with the sexual harassment trial and continuing with the blowup between Isiah Thomas and Stephon Marbury, with a few abysmal performances, loud boos and "Fire Isiah" chants thrown in for good measure, putting basketball aside for a morning trip to the Coney Island Gospel Academy to attend the funeral of a teammate's father somehow fits right in.
"It always seems like it's something," Jamal Crawford said. "There's always bumps in the road." (...)
