The Knicks and Nuggets got into basketball's semi-annual embarassing bench clearing brawl and general tag team assault on Saturday. The Nuggets were winning with a few minutes left and still had their starters in, so the Knicks decided to teach them a lesson by somehow making it even more humilating to be a Knicks fan, and starting a melee with a cheap shot takedown on a breakaway.

After the game finished with ten ejections, Knicks General Insult To Respectability Isiah Thomas blamed the whole thing on the Nuggets for beating them so badly. Honestly. Then to add even more idiocy to the fire, Knick Nate Robinson made a few quotes that left me so awash in stupidity I had to write them down.

"It's basically like a slap in the face, you know to the team. Saying We're going to embarass you guys like that. At the same time, we've got to keep fighting and play through it."

To begin with, it's not basically a slap in the face, there were guys literally getting slapped in the face out there. And more importantly, which one of those things is more important, Nate? Do you want to keep fighting, or to play through it? Because honestly, you guys made a better showing of yourselves in the fight. At least it looks like the Knicks were familiar with the concept of fighting, as opposed to that whole basketball things.

And while I'm at it, if Carmelo Anthony is going to be an idol of men, he needs to learn how to throw a decent punch. That open fist/slapping crap was the worst punch I've seen since Sid Justice was in the WWF.

And speaking of that, if the Knicks are going to be this upset about getting beaten badly, they might as well hook up the ring ropes around the court at Madison Square Garden and start Wrestlemania early. It's going to happen a lot.

Labels: Knicks, NBA