Zach Randolph News

Jamal Crawford is convinced that if the Knicks hadn't traded he and Zach Randolph in early November that the club would have made the playoffs.

Isiah Thomas will be down the road Friday at Monmouth University with his FIU team after his self-proclaimed Little Team That Could couldn't, not only Monday night at North Carolina, but against NAIA Northwood in a season-opening exhibition.

It has been 19 months since Knicks president Donnie Walsh stood in front of a podium inside the theater at Madison Square Garden and promised fans a future.

Last week , we looked at clutch free-throw shooting, and that sparked a few questions like this one from Grady Farmer: "Is Kobe Bryant really that more clutch than LeBron James or Dwyane Wade?" Once again, we defined "clutch situations" as the last five minutes of a game with a scoring margin of five points or less.

LeBron James doesn't visit Madison Square Garden until Friday. Consider the building warmed up.

CHARLOTTE 102, NEW YORK 100 : D.J. Augustin made two free throws with 2.5 seconds left in the second overtime Friday night for the host Bobcats, who recovered from blowing an 18-point, fourth-quarter lead.

Dwyane Wade picked up where he left off. So did the defenseless New York Knicks.

Coach Mike D'Antoni, left, and team President Donnie Walsh are trying to revive a Knicks franchise that has been in disarray for most of the decade.

The name of the game for the New York Knicks is wait until next season. That is 2010-11 not 2009-10 so the new season has already been tossed aside though coach Mike D'Antoni speaks positively about making the playoffs.

21, 2009, in Miami. A rebuilding strategy centered on chasing the likes of LeBron James , Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh makes perfect sense to a team like the New York Knicks .

Zach Randolph has been a nomad of sorts during his NBA career, with the Grizzlies being his fourth team in eight years.

They can try to trade Stephen Jackson to Dallas for junk and problems. Or to Cleveland for other problems and other junk.

Expectations in check for the Knicks' "season about nothing" Seinfield was famously described as a "show about nothing" by its co-creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld.

After years and years of embarrassment, turmoil, scandal, and chaos, Donnie Walsh has done a great job cleaning Isiah's mess.

Traded for Zach Randolph and Jerry Stackhouse . Drafted Hasheem Thabeet, Sam Young, DeMarre Carroll.

Larry Hughes is a veteran guard who can shoot, dunk and defend, but the Knicks really need him to do just one thing: expire.

Mike D'Antoni could be forgiven if he sometimes catches himself daydreaming of Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire executing the perfect pick-and-roll. Perhaps he occasionally closes his eyes and pictures LeBron James or some other superstar finishing on the fast break.

With training camp right around the corner, the Knicks inked two of their most important players.

Just hurry up and make this trade Cleveland . It'll save you from a miserable 2010 summer.

Don't I look happy? Why does Allen Iverson's announcement that he is headed to Memphis make you feel like his career is already over? Is it because you already know that the elusive championship that he always talked about but never won in Philadelphia and later Denver and Detroit is completely out of his grasp? Is it because the situation with the ...