Spurs dump Scola's rights to avoid paying luxtax

[elindholm]

Simmons is a very entertaining writer, but he's really not credible as an authority on anything. His thinking is too muddled by emotion, and he routinely distorts the facts in order to make a point.

 

[Cheesebeef]

People watching the games said that the team was better without Ewing.


Eh, I'm bored. Want to argue, take it up with this guy.

I could care less what Simmons says - i find him entertaining and a good writer, but he's not an authority on anything, especially something I remembeer vividly watching because one of my best friends at the time was a Knicks fan and I watched almost every game with him.

bottom line - they don't get out of the first round without Ewing, thhey don't get to the second round without Ewing and without either of those things happeneing, they don't get the chance to even play the Pacers where they're gifted a game in Game 3.

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

Funny how Simmons never mentions how horrific the Suns are without Nash, and the Spurs without Duncan, and the Lakers without Kobe, or the literally hundreds of other examples of instances when the best player on a team has been injured and said team has gone in the crapper.

 

[Errntknght]

Funny how Simmons never mentions how horrific the Suns are without Nash, and the Spurs without Duncan, and the Lakers without Kobe, or the literally hundreds of other examples of instances when the best player on a team has been injured and said team has gone in the crapper.

Why is it funny he doesn't explicitly mention those instances - thats what is supposed to happen when a teams best player is out. In the cases it doesn't happen, it becomes remarkable because its so rare. I don't put a whole lot of stock in the Ewing theory but I was very surprised that they predicted that the Knicks would win without Ewing - of course, they may just be claiming they did after the fact.

We do see minor versions of the theory fairly often - a team loses its star and everyone else plays out their minds for a game or two then reality takes hold again. So the Knicks sustained it for four games and it was during the playoffs - and it becomes the stuff of legend. (Like many people my memory was faulty about that, too - I thought the Knicks went all the way thru the playoffs without Ewing. That makes a much better legend!)