Good luck Raymond and stay out of trouble

According to today's New York Times Raymond Felton has been given a deal to pay a $5000 fine and serve 500 hours of community service with no jail time in return for a guilty plea to his illegal weapon possession charge.

As many of the regular readers know I begged Raymond in a previous post to force the District Attorney's hand and not plea to anything. Hopefully forcing the burden of proof on the state of New York so hard that they either drop the case or offer a none jail deal.

I highly doubt that his lawyer took my advice but the outcome is the same. No jail time for Raymond, he can get rid of that rat of an ex-wife of his and now focus on getting in shape for the next team he gets to play for since Phil Jackson was so hell bent on getting rid of him that he announced his desires to trade Raymond the day after Steve Kerr told him to take his coaching job and shove it.

Raymond can't guard the statue of liberty but neither can Prigioni however, the city is not clamoring for Jackson to get rid of the old Argentinian. I wonder what that's about?!?

Raymond clearly had more on his mind last season than dealing with the band of misfits called the Knicks and had a so so season.

Good luck Raymond and stay out of trouble.

Carmelo Anthony Opts Out

Today ESPN reported that Carmelo Anthony handed papers to opt out of the final season on his contract to the Knicks and the league. Below is how most Knicks fans reacted on the talk shows this afternoon.

However, the Knicks fans with half a brain are reacting like this.

If Anthony returns, God help you

As I watched San Antonio totally dismantle the Miami Heat yesterday I was wondering if both New York teams weren't simply watching to taking notes. More so the Knicks and especially Carmelo Anthony.

The Spurs displayed what it means to have a superior team and how easily it could defeat one dominate player.

For years Anthony has been fed a great deal of misinformation about the importance of his game. The rhetoric went to extreme heights when he arrived in New York City.

Before Anthony arrived every idiot in the city with any tie to the Knicks lauded what a major upgrade he was to all the previous talent and that the Knicks were no closer to competing for a championship when nothing could have been further from the truth.

The reason why I started this blog was to voice my frustration against the low basketball IQ of the team which naturally resulted in losing during the regular season and the playoffs.

When Dolan traded a bunch of selfless underachievers for a guy who would wind up going through three veteran head coaches all because he refused to give up the isolation game which got him so much money I basically knew that my days as a fan of the team were over.

Even if Popovich had miraculously become the coach of the Knicks he too would have been unsuccessful because Anthony's game always takes precedence over solid team basketball and that was exactly the way that James Dolan and his sycophants wanted it.

I remember when Jeremy Lin had the audacity to wave Carmelo off his familiar spot and attempt to run the offense as instructed by then coach Mike D'Antoni.

Carmelo's disgust and subsequent rants and ravings by the likes of Stephen A Smith and the rest of the talk show hosts in this town told you all you would ever need to know about the only thing that mattered in this city pre-Phil Jackson.

The only hope for Knicks fans of seeing anything remotely close to the level of team play that the Spurs displayed is seeing Carmelo Anthony take his talents else where and the Knicks buying or trading for draft picks. I think they could actually get a first rounder this season and a second rounder next for Tyson Chandler.

For now all Knicks fans have is NBA league pass where they can watch the Spurs play real basketball over and over again.

If Anthony returns, God help you.