Nate Robinson shoots at wrong basket
November 21, 2009 by James Edwards
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It was the major battle of the losers with the Knicks facing off against the Nets. The Knicks needed to defeat the winless Nets to maintain dominion over the New York area.
New York Knicks 98 New Jersey Nets 91
You don’t really need to have attended this game and you do have to wonder why anyone actually did attend this game, but let’s set the scene for what kind of atmosphere was prevailing.
There were sloppy passes and errant shots, but at least it was fun for the kids, who got to see Dora the Explorer come on the court a few times and a half-deflated Elmo balloon hover over it during much of the second quarter.
And there were plenty of items tossed into the stands during giveaways — not counting Chandler’s pass that landed in the fourth row.
Sure it was messy, but these teams expected a tough go of it this season while building for the future.
During a second-quarter timeout, YES Network showed next summer’s projections for available salary cap space, where the Nets are expected to slightly edge the Knicks with around $24 million.
But the plan to save money to be aggressive in free agency leaves neither team with much hope of being competitive now. The worst start in franchise history had the Knicks considering Allen Iverson before ruling it out Friday.
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NBAObsessed wrote about the Allen Iverson possible signing before.
——Iverson to Knicks, but Brandon Jennings not——
It really got ugly just before the half when Nate Robinson did the most unthinkable thing of all. He shot the ball into the wrong basket from 30 feet on purpose. Yes, on purpose!
So there you have it, two teams going nowhere thinking with extra manufactured cap space they kind sign all kinds of players and go somewhere. They better hope their strategy works.
Now stops and think about this for a minute. Who do the Knicks and Nets want the most? Ahh, that is right, LeBron James. The Knicks and Nets have to realize that their ineptitude in both playing and managing the teams will drive stars like LeBron away. They do realize that, don’t they?
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