It's amusing how everytime there's a player available for trade or as a free agent, New York Knicks are quick to jump on the bandwagon, to sort of get into the rumors that they are interested in that available player. One has to wonder, what exactly are they thinking would happen in 2010?
Knicks have sucked ever since Ewing retired or when Sprewell/Houston combo was winning games for them.
They have ridiculous contracts (Eddy Curry, a bench warmer is getting paid 10.5 million this season and 11.3 million next season!) yet they continue to sell tickets because of a big city that New York is. No where else in the world would people go buy tickets for a team that has a history of being bad. One can argue, they are buying tickets to support the other team but the games have been so lob sided that anyone coming to play Knicks, knows they are getting an easy win in the mecca of basketball. You can check the Eastern conference standings for the past 5 or so years and will always find Knicks sitting at the bottom. Yet, tickets to MSG are always in demand. If it's not the die hard Knick fans supporting their team in bad times, it's the tourists who want to see the game live. That's why they say, "There's no place in the world like New York City!"
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NY's a basketball town. The fans will come out even when the team's atrocious. I lived there during the Spree/LJ Finals team and the town was going nuts.
ReplyDeleteI know, I was living there as well. That's a bad thing sometimes, Dolan knows they'll show up no matter how bad the team is, that's why he got away with it for so many years.
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