Thank you for providing the link on Knick Defense. It is difficult to get here because there is so much to read and so little time, but your material should be required reading and spread around more. I encourage us all to be Johnny Appleseeds and sprinkle a little MODI around the blogosphere and share this link wherever you can.

Very fine analysis. Very fine.

Yes, on one hand it might explain some of the reason why they are pissed off but on the other hand, I was reading the Daily’s everyday when they were WINNING during the Patrick Ewing era and the writers, including Isola, treated them like shit. Want some perspective: the New York Post wrote the unforgiveable “Good Riddance” the day Patrick Ewing got traded. After all that man gave to the Knicks, a warrior who played with pain all the time. These guys will trade in decency at any time if it sells one more copy.

If James Dolan has a back off media policy, it is for damn good reason. They are vultures ONLY concerned about creating villains to sell papers. If I’m James Dolan I would tell guys like Isola and Vaccarro to go fuck themselves. They have some serious balls to complain considering the columns they write. The best thing I could say about isola is that Lupica and Mitch lawrence do their best to make him seem “fair and balanced”. Listen Jones, if I invite you over to my house for dinner and you spit on my food, piss on my rug, and shit on my couch should I have an obliged to happily pass you the potatoes? How arrogant is it for a reporter to believe that they can write hack pieces and be expected to be treated nice afterwards?

My only regret is that there are some fair writers like the NY Times Howard Beck and Newsday’s Alan Hahn who get caught in the web as a result. However, I would argue that their dissappointment should not be with James Dolan or Isiah, but rather their colleagues over at the Daily news and the NY Post. In the True Hoop article Alan Hahn says that Isola really does love the Knicks. That tells me that Hahn has some really fucked up friends or never actually read an Isola column… perhaps Hahn should start with this one:
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/knicks/2007/11/its-isiahs-hoax-and-were-all-v.html

now the big bully is acting like a cry babby.

http://www.observer.com/2007/life-knicks-hell?page=0%2C0

it might actually explain some of the negative treatment Isaih and Knicks receive in the press. Sounds like the beat writers have an axe to grind.

Matt, good point about the uninsured part about Curry’s salary. I hadn’t considered that. But 9M still seems like a great deal IF he can be paired with a defensive shot-blocking sidekick. We agree that randolp’s salary is less tradeable. But because of randolph the loss of Curry would be far less of a hit than it would have been last year.

I don’t have the same optimism you do over dealing either Curry or Randolph.

Curry has a more manageable salary, but it is still substantial for a one-dimensional player. And perhaps the biggest (only?) point about his tradeability is that his contract is uninsured, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Dolan’s the only one willing to take on such a risk. He likely was the only one the first time Curry was available.

And Randolph’s trade value isn’t as much of a mystery, as he was just traded after a very good (statistical) season in Portland. All that got Portland was a bought-out Steve Francis and some other spare parts like Frye. If he keeps a high level of play his contract gets shorter and less of a pain, but playing on a bad team rarely helps value.

A lot of it goes to the idea that Dolan’s pockets make cap disasters irrelevant. For him, maybe. But nearly every other owner is a lot more cautious, so mistakes are harder to pass on.

Although, as a Bulls fan, I can’t agree with everything you wrote and don’t have time, or the energy, to go into the details of all the work of John Paxson….I can agree that this was a very compelling article. Nice work.

And Modi, I can understand the frustration that you confirmed to Jazz. For starters, we all come here and submit “minis”. You’re swamped with your day job so you give us the very best of what you’ve got and THANK YOU. You have the makings for chapters and sections in books but not the book itself I suppose. Even with that said Jazz, when you read the other MSM, pay attention to the topics and words as they are plagiarized from COSELLOUT. Maybe that is a small retribution. Still, this site is not being maintained with retribution and the ticketmaster does not accept it online when trying to get tickets to the games

Jazz, it amazes me that Kiki’s name comes up and this is the guy who sent THREE first rounders for Kenyon Martin AND drafted “Skita” (can’t spell his name) with the 3rd overall pick. This AMAZES me that he is held in high regard.

Temple, i don’t know if I really subscribe to the “education theory”. I don’t know if it is a matter of education or insight. The bottom line is that there are many insightful writers who simply dumb their shit down. They care about selling papers. That is their job. Do you think a Lupica or Whitlock rose to fame by believing half the shit that they write? (Actually Lupica was good 25 years ago) they have controversial formulas that sell papers or website clicks and they get paid for their hackery. They are hustlers plain and simple. Anne Coulters of the sporting scene. The reason we always get the “black villain” flavor of the week is because that sells. Period.

As much as i appreciate your words, i don’t know if my writing, your writing, and other bloggers concerned with “fairness” would move any papers. people like the “good vs. evil” paradigm and don’t really want nuance, even if it is the truth. People like their life simple and Lupica as a master at oversimplification.