The Knicks Downfall and How We Can All Blame Allan Houston

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I am not a Knicks fan.  Let’s make that completely clear right away.  I am an Orlando Magic fan, so my current situation isn’t much better.  But being a New York City resident I can admit, there’s no better excitement in this city than when the Knicks are winning.  It’s undeniable the buzz that’s created.  I went to a Knicks game about 4 years ago to catch an up close glimpse of Dwight Howard (still hate you Dwight) and the conversation I over heard truly sums up all the issues the Knicks had then, and they still have now.  A Knicks fan sitting close to me, unsolicited by anything going on, brought up THE shot made by Allan Houston.  You know the shot.  The 1999 Eastern Conference Final series winner.  The very fortunate front rim bounce.  Yea that shot.  And the Knicks fan went on to state that it was the greatest moment in New York Knicks history.  One; that’s ludicrous and two; it might be the antithesis of that. Let’s see that shot again:

Okay, fun moment.  Awesome.  The impossible was done, a lowly eighth seed had upset everyone and made it to the finals.  And sure watching that final series might’ve been fun for you Knicks fans, but you didn’t get a ring and instead as a result of that one, borderline lucky play, the Knicks gave Allan Houston, a second tier player at the time, a max contract.  It is for that reason I blame him for the current state of the Knicks.  Because they are located in New York, the Knicks could never just realize a mistake and try to work their way out of it.  Instead the city that never sleeps, demands that their sports teams never sleep either.  This results in patch work GM moves to keeps a team that should’ve rightfully realized their max signing was a huge gaffe and should’ve just reset the board from taking the right time to just rebuild.  The Magic today are what the Knicks should’ve been 3 years after the Houston contract.  Granted the Magic’s hand got forced by cry baby Dwight forcing his way out, but the Magic have taken their time to rebuild.  Everyone in the NBA can admit now that Orlando, now 3 years removed from the Dwight show, have won out in that trade.  They are 1 or 2 parts away from being contenders, and will most likely get that piece in the lottery this year.  Instead the Knicks signed and traded for “past their prime” max contracts and stuck Carmelo Anthony in the middle of it thinking he can make it work.  No disrespect to Melo but he is not the kind of player to elevate other player’s games.  He’s a final piece, kind of guy.  The Knicks might get a lottery pick, and could turn this mess around in 2 years, but I’ll make the call right now that they probably won’t.  Especially when I hear rumors of them possibly making moves for Lin.  Here’s some advice: you won’t make things better by bending over backwards for the girl you cheated on; you’re best bet is to just own up to your mistake and walk away trying to become a better man.  In other words, rebuild.  But that won’t happen. Instead Something tells me once Allan Houston gave you that first hit of basketball crack (a cheap, short lived high) he got your whole organization hooked for life.  So on behalf of everyone in New York, fuck you Allan Houston.

Matt Cargile

About Matt Cargile

Matt Cargile is the Editor in Chief of rookerville.com. He also works in finance, but refuses to read any news printed on pink paper. He is a child at heart with adult means. His childhood dream was to either become a magician or the leader of the next great empire and somehow both these things make complete sense. He's contradictory in nature, but is always consistent.

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