Author: Jay

Please let this happen

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It has been rumored that the Miami Heat are seriously looking at Eddie Curry.  Yes, the same guy who ate burgers on the Knicks bench for two years.  Last year he weighed 350 pounds.  Let me repeat three hundred and fifty pounds.  Allegedly he is down to 300 and 288 is what the Heat want him to get down to.

In a perfect world Eddy gets down to say 285.  The Heat, impressed with his motivation for a paycheck…er…to play again signs him for a few million a.k.a. the rest of their cap space.  Eddie, delighted to get paid again celebrates at the buffet.  Over and over again until he’s 400 pounds and less productive than Erick Dampier.

Episode 78: Playing Overseas

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This lockout better end soon.  It’s getting hard to find things to talk about. We talk about Lawrence Frank getting hired in Detroit and Rambis getting fired in Minnesota.  Shaq getting hired by TNT and calling Miami the big 2.  Mourning involved in a hit and run.  Players going overseas and why Turiaf shouldn’t.  Steve Francis getting accused of sexual assault and being terrible at promoting his record label.  Download Episode 78

Episode 77: Interview with Audley Stephenson

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We interview author of Basketball Talk, The Way It Should Be and host of The Breakdown Show, Audley Stephenson.  We talk about the Knicks, the Raptors, the lockout, Audley’s radio show, some of the guests he’s had on an a few funny moments from the show, and his basketball book.  You can buy his book here and listen to his show here.   Download Episode 77

Episode 76: Lockout Special

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Marc is on the players side so Jay has locked him out of the show.  Martin joins the show today.  We obviously talk about the lockout.  We go over the free agent signings and trades that happened before the lockout.  Greg Odens big contract.  The Knicks are looking at Kurt Thomas.  The Milwaukee Bucks and the Minnesota Timberwolves.  Download Episode 76

Final Thoughts on the 2010-11 NBA Season Part 2

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The What Could Have Beens:

A number of teams were derailed by injuries.

Golden State Warriors – Couldn’t help but think that with a healthy David Lee and Andris Biedrins they would have at least been within striking distance of the 8th seed.  Lee wasn’t the same after Wilson Chandler went all True Blood on him.

Cleveland Cavaliers – We knew after LeBron left they would be bad.  But this was still a team that won over 120 games the last 2 seasons.  How did they fall so hard?  Well at one point in the season Danial Gibson, Antawn Jamison, Anthony Parker, and Anderson Varejao, you know, pretty much their starting lineup were all injured at once.  They were pretty much a D-league team 3/4 of the way through the season.  And not a good D-league team.

Milwaukee Bucks – Delfino, Jennings, Redd and Bogut missed a ton of time.  Salmons also got that virus a lot of people get right after they sign a big contract.  It usually lasts until about a year before the contract is up. Continue reading →

Knicks Interested in Kurt Thomas

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It has been reported that the Knicks are interested in Kurt Thomas. 

Ironically he would be our first real center since….Kurt Thomas!  I say why not?  He can still play decent defense and he can still shoot the midrange jumper..  I’d feel better about Kurt at the 5 than I would having Amar’e bang in the paint on his shaky knees all season.  He’d be a relatively cheap option as well.

Final Thoughts on the 2010-11 NBA Season Part 1

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So the 2010-11 season has finally come to an end.  If the NBA is going to miss part of all of a season, and it’s looking like that will be the case, then I’m glad our last taste of NBA action for a while was a good one.

The season began months before any games were played with this along with a number of other big names switching teams such as Stoudemire, Boozer, and Bosh.  We even got our first truly hated team since the Bad Boy Pistons with this.

Things get even more interesting after some huge trade deadline moves such as Carmelo Anthony getting traded to the Knicks and Deron Williams getting trades to the Nets.  All of this culminated in a very intriguing playoffs.  It was the old guard making their last stand (San Antonio, Boston, Dallas) vs the up and comers (Oklahoma City, Chicago, Memphis), the Knicks making the playoffs for the first time in 7 yeas, the Lakers trying to threepeat and the Heat trying to live up to the hype.

As great as it was for the fans it wasn’t as fun for a few teams.  Lets take a look back at how each team fared. Continue reading →

Steve Nash for Chauncey Billups

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There have been a bunch of rumors going around saying there might be a trade between the Suns and the Knicks with the main pieces being Steve Nash for Chauncey Billups.

Don't get excited Knicks fans, he'll still be with the Suns next season.

This is never going to happen so don’t get your hopes up Knicks fans.  Billups is three years younger than Nash and scores a few more points a game, but they are both in the last year of their contracts and Nash is still playing at a higher level. Continue reading →

Episode 75: Happy Meta World Peace Day

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We cover the draft, all the trades made during the draft, some Knicks rumors, Pippen backtracking from saying LeBron is better than Jordan, the man previously known as Ron Artest, and some other rumors around the league.  Download Episode 75

A Few More Thoughts on the Finals

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Outlook going forward:

Assuming Dallas can resign Chandler they are in very good shape for next year. Remember, Butler, Haywood and Beaubois will all either be back next year or traded for new pieces. Since we have no idea lets assume they all stay. Haywood gives you more productive minutes than Mahimni, Butler starts and you have Marion coming off the bench and Peja can do what he did in game 6 and watch, and Beaubois can play the point, giving Kidd the opportunity to play less than 30 minutes a game. Everyone is fresh for the playoffs and they have another big scorer in Butler in crunchtime. Don’t sleep on these guys next year either. Long-term they have some big contracts coming off the books in Butler and Kidd after next season and can either give starting roles to Beaubois , Brewer and/or Barea or have the cap space to bring in new/younger talent. Continue reading →