There was a time when walking into Madison Square Garden for a Knicks game felt like legitimate basketball, and not the Barnum and Bailey circus that comes to the Garden in the offseason.

Between Isiah Thomas and Stephon Marbury alone – dare I call them the Ringling Bros. – the team has become the laughing stock of the league. The season started with an embarrassing sexual harassment trial where the team’s head coach and president was the defendant, and with a series of bizarre (to be polite) interviews from Marbury. Read more »