troubled franchise

Until now, I've resisted commenting on the Knicks misguided trade for Steve Francis yesterday. And really, I think I'll skip it, there's not much to say that hasn't been said. But I will point out this sharp column by Barbara Barker in today's N.Y. Newsday:

http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/knicks/ny-spbarb234638136feb23,0,5144092.column?coll=ny-sports-headlines

I've never seen Isiah Thomas' house. But judging from the trades he has made since becoming the Knicks president, I can only imagine that it has four brick driveways, three swimming pools, two grand staircases, but no furnace, no closets and no kitchen sink.

Then later:

It's kind of scary to imagine Marbury and Francis in the same backcourt, two shoot-first point guards who together comprise the most expensive starting backcourt in the history of the game with a combined salary of $30 million this year. Who is going to be the complementary player? Who will be the go-to guy? And what is Brown going to do? These two guys are about as far away from Richard Hamilton and Chauncey Billups as Isiah Thomas is from Joe Dumars as a GM.

I've never seen Dumars' house in Detroit, but I bet it has a furnace.

Oh well, at least baseball starts soon. The Yankees may have a ridiculous budget, but so do the Knicks, and at least the Yankees win every once in a while.