I believe in B-ball ...

Damn. The Knicks. Who new?

What's gonna happen to the Hornets - for that matter what's gonna happen to the entire league next year. Heard tonight the NBA is gonna lose $350 million this year and are requesting that every player take a 33% cut in pay. What is the chance of this happening?

they are heading for a lock-out next year, hopefully a short one...

meanwhile, the C's became the first team in NBA history to start 16-4 four straight seasons.
thank U, big 3!

Wait, wait! That's The Big 4. Gotta include Rondo, natch!

true.
with the big shamrock on board, it's actually the big 5 this year (but who's counting?)...
didn't need shaq tonight -- blew out charlotte 93-62...
10 straight W's!

Kicky, I would have PMd this, but seeing as it is not working, I shall just stick this on your latest post and hope that you pick it up.
I know you enjoyed the Brit version of the Office, so I'm pretty sure that you have a warped enough sense of humour to enjoy this as well.
A recent discovery of mine...

Warning: Adult language. Over 18's only.
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dt0dqfDD8g-4%26list%3DSL

Give it about five minutes to get used to the format, and hopefully you will find it right up your street. There are many more episodes - just search " Pete versus life "

Hope you get this, and sorry for the minor derailment everyone.

Carry on....

Oops...my oversight! Shaq-ém attack. Be still my Shaqy-breaky heart!

62 points, in deed! What a poor showing.

tomorrow night we shall see how far the knicks have really come.
with 4 days off the C's should be rested and ready, hopefully not rusty...

wow that was a good 'un, right down to the wire.
knicks look like they've turned the corner on their decade of mediocrity.

tommy heinsohn said it best --
"that's as good as the knicks can play, but not as good as the celtics can play"...

they need a shaq-like enforcer to patrol the paint, so they don't have to play
run n' gun all night in an effort to outscore the other team.
the C's got way too many easy lay-ups...

Nice to see Knicks are back in the running again. It's good for the league. Stoudamire has a team around him. And may Spike Lee choke on his bile!

Interesting evening with lots of good scores, with exception of course, to the hated Lakers. My Thunder performed well to the powerless Rockets. Anyone know, is Yao out forever? Rockets were "my team" before the advent of the Thunder.....

Wiki info excerpt on Yao:

"In July 2009, Yao discussed the (foot-toe) injury with his doctors, and the Rockets applied for a disabled player exception, an exception to the NBA Salary Cap which grants the injured player's team money to sign a free agent.[94] The Rockets were granted the exception, and used approximately $5.7 million on free agent Trevor Ariza. After weeks of consulting, it was decided that Yao would undergo surgery in order to repair the broken bone in his left foot.[95] He did not play the entire 2009–10 season.[96]

For the 2010–11 season, the Rockets will limit Yao to no more than 24 minutes a game, with no plan to play him on back-to-back nights. The goal is to keep Yao healthy long term."

I looked up his stats: so far this season he's been in 5 games and averaged 18 mins / game.

Thanks Ragman. I do believe I remember that this condition is a big man problem and will haunt him for the rest of his career.

I hope by this comment, RM, you are not implying that he did not have a team around him last year.

i think he was comparing them to last year's knicks "team" -- if you could call it that...

Relative to last year's team, this team is superior. Don't you think? Results (as well as an eyeball test) seem(s) to indicate they are.

Ah, gotcha. I'll buy that.

I honestly couldn't say. I do wish Amare was still a Sun playing this well.

Yao Ming out indefinitely with stress fracture in his left ankle
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5926989