Knicks vs. Heat: Knicker-Blogger Preview

Home, sweet home. Can the confines of the Garden help the Knicks cool off the hot, hot Heat and put together back to back wins for the first time since, since, since before anyone had ever heard of Freddie Mitchell's hands?
--Super Snub: Can Stephon Marbury continue his recent scoring streak and will his recent exclusion from the All-Star game fuel his occassionally waning fire?
--Centers of Attention: Nazr was bullied and battered the last time he ran into He of Many Names, can he hold Shaq to modest 20/10?
--Losers, Repent! It being Ash Wednesday, one has to wonder if the Knicks will give up losing for Lent. Can they embark on a biblical winning streak that will last them 40-days and 40-nights?
--Beer Money: if any of the 1.67 people who read this site happen to be at the game tonight with a few extra dollars, I'll be sitting in section 302 and could always use another beer.

Most Overpaid Players

ESPN.com's "Page Two" has cobbled together a list of the top ten most overpaid players in the NBA. Not surprisingly it's like a summer bbq at the Dolan's: 6 members of the list are currently on the Knicks roster or were on it not too long ago, and just for good measure there is another guy on the list whose name keeps popping up in trade rumours.

TOP TEN MOST OVERPAID PLAYERS

Jazz force Knicks to Beat Them.

There was no way they could do this again. Was there? As the seconds of the fourth quarter ticked on, as the Knicks lead waned, it sure seemed like watching the final moments of Saturday night's heartbreaker in Sacramento all over again.

Tonight: Knicks vs. Jazz @ 9pm.

The woeful Knicks hit mormon-town looking to end the dismal road trip on a high note. They have lost every other game on this trip. I'm not going to the trouble to come up with any storylines for tonight's contest as, well, as it just doesn't seem worth the energy at this point. Still, the NY Knicker-Blogger will be planted on the couch come 9 o'clock with the remnants of the 6-foot sub from yesterdays Super Bowl fiesta. Hopefully there will be something worth writing about tomorrow.....

Knicks fall to Suns

I kind of boycotted this game (and by boycott I mean that I watched large chunks of it, but would keep my sanity by continuously seeing what else was on). I got my b-ball fix in other ways; by watching BC remain undefeated against Seton Hall; watching Notre Dame fall apart in the final minutes before a record setting crowd at the Carrier Dome, and attending the matinee Nets/Pistons game. And not that I want to spend any time at the NY Knicker-Blog talking about the Nets (unless we decide to pay homage to the late, great Drazen Petrovic), but there were a few noteworthy things about the game--which I did not pay to attend.

• Vince Carter was amazing; he ended up with 41 and was just scoring at will against the Pistons. I know that I didn't want him in a Knicks uniform, but he showed glimpses of his pre-dunk contest brilliance.
• The PA announcer at Continental doesn't have the chops to handle Vince: he kept awkwardly referring to him as "VC" and had nothing but lame comments like "Did you See VC!"
• Darvin Ham was the most popular player in the building: during the halftime shootaround he was joking with his teammates and with several of the Nets, by far the life of the party.
• The Nets didn't seem to like each other that much. While there was no Steph/Kurt Thomas bile on the court, you just didn't see them really joking around with one another. Vince Carter spent more time kissing Larry Brown's whistle at halftime than he did talking to any of his teammates.