New York Knicks
The other day, the Chicago Bulls beat the New York Knicks for the third time this season. During the game, Bulls back-up guard Nate Robinson made a couple of three-pointers and sarcastically celebrated by doing the Discount Double Check celebration that Knicks' back-up forward Steve Novak likes to do when he hits a triple. This irked Novak, prompting him to mock Robinson in the below clip. Novak refers to Robinson as a "little kid" and says he can't wait for "when little Nathan grows up." Pretty good dig, Mr. Novak. I guess. Then again, you had just lost your third consecutive game to the Bulls that night and you are also a 6'10" forward who averages .5 rebounds per game. (The 5'9" ...
It's well established by now that being a prominent athlete on Twitter has a substantial downside. Any public failing (and the failings of athletes tend to be public) invites hundreds of thousands of Internet folks, emboldened by relative anonymity and ease of communication, to douse the athlete with whatever hateful balderdash they please, so long as it's under 140 characters. This came up a couple weeks ago when Jon Rauch of the Mets had a rough outing on the mound and broadcasted the backlash, retweeting all the vile mentions he received. It surfaced again over the weekend, when Amar'e Stoudemire (who hasn't even had the opportunity to fail in more than a month) took exception to a ...
What a disaster the Knicks are right now. It's pretty amazing how quickly this became the conventional wisdom, the giddiness of a batshit regular season erased by two ugly losses, a crushing season-ending injury to Iman Shumpert, and, mostly, a fire extinguisher brutally attacking Amar'e Stoudemire's left hand. Suddenly, the Knicks aren't just behind 2-0 in a playoff series - they're a disaster. There are calls to blow up the whole team, to trade Amar'e Stoudemire for magic beans and two cute kittens, to sign Jason Kidd/Steve Nash/Dwight Howard/Howard the Duck. We feel caution is in order. In our minds, the problem is not that the Knicks are falling apart; the problem is that they're ...
