The New York Knicks (24-32) welcome The Orlando Magic (41-15) and Dwight Howard to the Garden tonight for the first time this year.
I’m looking for a good performance from the squad tonight, as the Stephon Marbury saga is now in the rearview mirror.

I hope the team is up to the challenge tonight and can capitilize on the fact that The Magic been struggling a bit lately. They are coming in after the loss to the Chicago Bulls last night (120-102). Dwight Howard led the way as usual with 26 points.  He of course will be the force that we need to stop. Hopefully Nate can poster-ise Howard in a real game this time.

I have a feeling that this is going to be an exciting game.

via AP:
Stephon Marbury was waived Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, by the New York Knicks, ending a turbulent five-year stint in which the former All-Star couldn’t lead his hometown team to a single playoff victory. Marbury is one of the highest-paid players in the NBA, set to make close to $21 million this season, but has not played a game for new coach Mike D’Antoni.

Well this is good news for most New York Knicks Fans. I’m sure there is still quite a few of you out there that wanted this guys to play for the Knicks this year. I never supported him and I’m very excited about this.
He is finally out and not our problem.

With our luck if we do qualify for the playoffs this year, there is a very good chance we’ll see him with the Celtics. But i think we can worry about that when the time comes.

Happy New Year indeed. ESPN.com is reporting that NYK cancer Stephon Marbury will look to sign with the Boston Celtics once his release is negotiated with the team. It has long been rumored that the Knicks will release Steph once the new year begins for tax reasons against this years losses to Jimmy Dolans w-2’s.

This is great, not only will the lid coming off story this help to get the price of his negotiation down, we also get to speculate on how much commotion it will cause in Boston. It seems to make sense on paper, a vet going to a good team to add some legs off the bench, but I have no doubt that if he becomes a Celtic he will figure out a way to blow up the chemistry of that team. When it’s done it could be a win-win for the Knicks, we get rid Steph and he ends up with a division rival upseting any chance they had a repeat.

What kind of man pays 26 cnotes for a courtside ticket when he could be sitting 20 feet away getting paid about 200k. While the rest of America is struggling to pay their damn rent this ASS wastes money just to get some cheap publicity. He’s become a 17 year old spoiled brat. Talking to his ho’s on his cell phone for the whole game, having sex in limo’s, taking money without doing any work, bad tattoos’s in stupid places and sticking their tongue out are things done by a high school girl, not a grown ass man. Steph’s done them all, and done them all without shame.

“All I’ve got to do is get free, Once I get free, the team I’m going to go to, I think a lot of people will be shocked” Marbury said on Monday night before the game. He’s right we will be shocked if anybody anywhere on planet earth ever lets this disease into their locker room.