The Knicks have 24 hours, as their most ardent and famous fan would say, to Do the Right Thing.
Maybe Spike Lee loves the Knicks, but they don’t love him back. And he can’t possible adore the last 42 years of basketball doom. Like the rest of us, however, Lee had to embrace the return of Phil Jackson to New York. But despite the cachet Jackson has brought back to Gotham, he did one thing that has all of us scratching our heads.
He gave Carmelo Anthony a no-trade clause.
Other than hiring Isiah Thomas as head coach, GM, and Jim Dolan’s sounding board, the worst move the Knicks have made since Y2K was trading for Anthony, re-signing him, and including that misguided NBA prenup that allows him to call all the shots until he retires.