Published 3/17/2008
by Sean Kalub
at Bleacher Report - NBA
Numbers never scare me. 13 yeah right, 911 I’m sleepy, fico under 500 in your dreams, Jim Carey in 23 (straight to video). What does scare me, what keeps me up at night in deep chilling sweats are the numbers 122203.122203 are the numbers that should run through every New York Knick fan's head at night. A nightmare people could tell kids when they want them to behave. The numbers will sober those with delusions and awaken the sleeping giants. For on 12/22/03 the New York Knicks hired Isaiah Thomas as president of team operations. This would be the watershed moment that we "those formally of the proud Knicks nation" will look at with scorn and distain. Since then the once heralded New York Knicks are now the laughing stock of basketball. Forget Reggie Miller scoring 8 points in 18.7 seconds in game 1 of the 95 playoffs; forget Alonzo Mourning playing the role of Mr. Basketball Sweat Wiper Upper with Jeff Van Gundy. The ...
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