Wednesday, September 29, 2010

In What Universe Do the Knicks Have the Assets to Get Carmelo Anthony?; Also, unappealing Spam commercial; and Dreary Looking Public Plaza for Brooklyn Nets' Barclays Center

Take a look at the Knick present and future. Exciting, eh? I think they've got that 8th seed ON LOCK.

Peter Vescey keeps regulating shop with his blistering column on Melo's future in Tuesday's Post.
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The Knicks simply don't have the required assets. The nerve of those Nuggets (and other concerned parties) to exact something of value in return!
"If the Knicks had their first-round draft picks, Carmelo already would be at camp scrimmaging with them," a rival team executive said.
Donnie Walsh's reckless decision last February to turn over the team's 2012 prime real estate (protected 1-5 through 2015; if not conveyed by then to the Rockets, it translates into two seconds) optimistically to amass enough cap space to entice two mega free agents unexpectedly has come back to haunt the Knicks before the team president could finish his first term of office. What was the rush? Rod Thorn waited until late June to accrue more space for the Nets -- the dumping of Yi Jianlian, for instance.
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 This proposed plaza in front of the future Barclays Center in Brooklyn looks like a lovely spot in which to contemplate life's meaningless and nothingness. But hey, as long as it gets built and opens.
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No doubt, Spam's a hard product to advertise, at the very least this commercial shies away from unappealing close-ups. Spam Up!

6 comments:

cannatar said...

Those are some unenviable jobs - trying to make Spam and that tiny plaza look good.

cannatar said...

Developer Bruce Ratner laughably claimed that the plaza would “quickly become one of Brooklyn’s great public spaces.”

Anonymous said...

Grand Army Plaza North.

Al K. Mza said...

The problem with Carmelo is that he secretly kinda stinks. Sure he can score, but what has his team ever done besides lose in the first round?

But he does fit into the Knicks all-forward design.

coachie said...

have to disagree Miz, Melo brought the Nuggz to the brink of the NBA finals 2 years ago against a very-good Laker team.
he's like a better Bernard King.

al k mza said...

i disagree, big-ups was the catalyst for the nuggs that year. that team was totally diff diff once they got him.

Melo just ain't that sweet. this "potential" deal reminds me of the mcdyess trade (remember that one, how optimistic we were!)