Bill Daughtry does an awesome job talking basketball. With Mac & BT gone, he's all we got left.
With the Yankees the way they are, that will dominate sports media. Think about it...Baseball is the ONLY thing going on in the summer. Without that, nobody has anything to talk about. Any given year, you may have soccer or the Olympics, but the media RELIES HEAVILY on baseball to keep ratings up during the boring summer months.
Therefore, all media has a heavy stake in making sure you're interested in baseball. That's why they talk about it when there's snow on the ground. When the NY Giants are in the Super Bowl, baseball ended 2 months ago and doesn't start again until 2 months from now, and yet...the Yanks still get tons of coverage. Baseball is key to the sports media making money in the summer; gotta keep interest healthy all year round.
As for the Knicks being mistreated in the media...good. After a decade of media policy that was neither media-friendly nor fan-friendly, why should anyone be nice to them? Walsh is gone now, and Dolan plans on putting a gag on everyone in the Garden again. The media tries to keep integrity, but they're only human. If you treat them like crap and make their jobs harder, don't be surprised if you don't get much love back.