Only in New York

OK, let me get this straight... the New York Knicks have been a terrible, terrible basketball team for as long as Stephon Marbury has been there.

Mike D'Antoni, the new head coach of the team who is a dead solid lock to be there longer than Starbury, comes to town. His entire game is based on quick and good percentage shots and running. Starbury's game, such as it is, is based on breaking down his man one-on-one and showing the world how good he can be.

He's also, and this is important, an utterly terrible defensive player, and a guy who makes the players around him worse, since he's, well, a loon and a cancer. We won't even get into the volumes of off-court insanity that he brings to the table, or the contributions that he's made to the circus atmosphere that was the Isiah Thomas harassment trial. (Speaking of another guy the Knicks would be better off without being in the same time zone...)

So D'Antoni gets the win in his first game, at home. The Knicks score 125 and are entertaining for the first time in forever. And the story is... Idiot Knicks Fans chanting for Marbury, and the press hounding D'Antoni over the DNP-CD. Then, a day later, Starbury being placed on the inactive list.

Look, let me make this simple for everyone. Independent of the $22 million that Marbury will make this year, he's a terrible basketball player. If he's your starting point guard, you are going to lose. A lot.

If the Knicks want to win games, they should not let him anywhere near their basketball team. Oh, and the same goes for Eddy Curry, too.

D'Antoni knows this. Anyone who has watched the Knicks with a functioning brain knows this. So... why is anyone chanting for him to get burn again?