The Knicks in 2006

Over the last two years Thomas made several questionable trades, which brought some overpaid and underperforming players to the New York Knicks. They included Stephon Marbury, Eddy Curry, Jamal Crawford, Jalen Rose, Jerome James, Malik Rose, and Steve Francis. However, Thomas himself considers the steps wise and correct. He is satisfied with his new players including Channing Frye, David Lee, Trevor Ariza and Nate Robinson. Conversely, many fans deem his 2006 first round draft pick of Renaldo Balkman a foolish mistake.

On December 16, 2006, the New York Knicks played against the Denver Nuggets in Madison Square Garden. Near the end of the game, the Denver Nuggets had a confident lead of 19 points with a minute remaining to play in the 4th, there were all Nuggets starters on the court and the team was going to run up the score. As the New York Knicks were playing at home, they took offense took offense and to prevent another big play, the Knicks guard Mardy Collins fouled J.R. Smith rather hard. This led to some shoving and obscene words being exchanged between the two players. Then the fight escalated when Smith attacked Nate Robinson with both falling into the first row of the stands. Several minutes later Carmelo Anthony hit Collins after having exchanged some swear words. The former had to escape as he was immediately chased by Jared Jeffries and Nate Robinson. Anthony received 15 game suspensions; Robinson and Smith were suspended 10 games. Mardy Collins received 6 game suspensions and Jared Jeffries only 4. The New York Knicks and the Denver Nuggets had to pay a 500,000-dollar fine each.

Though many in the media consider the current state of the New York Knicks as one of the worst in professional sports, the team is still eager to play and to show new records. Some believe that the team has just run a series of misfortunes, which may happen with any team at any time. Therefore, it is still early to condemn the team.

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