Knicks Still As Delusional As Ever

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Yet it does. Not the Stoudemire who got hurt and aged out during his stay with the Knicks, but the man who was willing to take the leap here when no other free-agent All-Star would.

It's a topic especially worth revisiting today as Kevin Durant's Oklahoma City Thunder arrive to play the Knicks at Madison Square Garden (without Durant, who will miss his second straight game with a sprained toe). The five-year, $100 million deal Stoudemire signed expires this season. Yet the Knicks are right back where they were when they were angling to get LeBron James, Chris Bosh or Dwyane Wade and wound up with Stoudemire instead.

Durant, supposedly the Knicks' latest target, can easily get the sort of max contract the Knicks threw at Stoudemire if Durant opts for free agency in the summer of 2016. Stoudemire couldn't say the same in 2010.

The point is that the Knicks again desperately need someone who can see past how dreadful the team is now and has the guts to believe it would turn around if he was added to the mix. That's what Stoudemire did.

Maybe Stoudemire could convince Durant the chance to own the Big Apple is a gamble worth taking?

But for as long as he's in New York, the Knicks should use Stoudemire as an emissary, rather than ask only Anthony to recruit Durant to come to New York or ask only Anthony to be the good company man and spend one of the Knicks' rare off-days at the Garden with Jackson and the team's front-office staff so he could "accidentally" bump into Duke's Jahlil Okafor, the projected No. 1 pick in the draft, outside the locker room when the Blue Devils were at the Garden last week to play St. John's.

Stoudemire could tell Durant what it took for him to look at this place where careers go to die and say the hell with it -- I want to be the guy who will someday be able to say, "The Knicks are back, the Knicks are back."

[SuperPippen]

How does one get paid for writing an article that is essentially a m[COLOR="Black"]astu[/COLOR]rbatory fantasy of Durant joining the Knicks?

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[Eric Cartman]

No dignity

At first it was hilarious them missing out on free agents and still having their hopes up, but now it's pathetic.