New York Knicks

With the Knicks victory over Chicago last night, they pulled to a half game of the playoffs.

David Lee put fourth another solid performance in 18 points and 21 rebounds, along with 5 assists. 

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LeBron James makes his only trip to Madison Square Garden tonight. 

For the past two seasons there has been plenty of talk about LeBron bolting his hometown of Cleveland for the bright lights of New York City. 

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In the NBA these days, it seems like there is a stat for everything. We’ve got PER, offensive efficiency ratings, defensive efficiency rating, and so on and so on.

It seems like every team in the league now employs their own stat guru. And while I’m not one to question the use of all these new statistics to evaluate NBA players (I actually kinda like them), I’m old school. 

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So far it looks a lot like last year.  Who knows who is going to play and how well they will do.  Sounds a lot like a Dr. Seuss title. There is one thing that looks like it will be consistent and that is David Lee.  He looks like he will do a double double most every night.  Draft picks Toney Douglas and Jordan Hill have looked like rookies.  They don't look like they will add much fire power early on.  But, they are young and need time to develop.  Wilson Chandler looks like he will start and probably have the second most amount of  minutes this year.  Who will be the leading scorer?  Lee might score the most points at season's end without ever being the leading scorer in a game.  Nate Robinson has his moments as does Al Harrington and Larry Hughes.  But, they also can lay goose eggs the next night.

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