Friday, January 4, 2008

League Leaders?

So here are a few fantastic stats (footnote on items 1-4, Daniel Rodriguez-Sains, 2007)
1. Jamal Crawford is the active player with most games played without appearing in a playoff game
2. Jamal Crawford has the second worst career losing percentage among active players (2 seasons experience or more)
3. Eddy Curry has the third worst career losing percentage among active players (2 seasons experience or more)
4. Only Shareef Abdur-Rahim has a worst career winning percentage than Crawford or Curry (to put this into perspective, he played on the Hawks, Grizz, Kings, and Blazers during the lowest of many low points in these teams recent history.”
5. Now it gets really good. As a good friend and co-worker of mine, one Alexander Benaim, pointed out to me today, the Knicks are leading the league in being last in the league for desirable offense/defense/ statistics. What does that mean, exactly? Well . . . last in the league in blocks per game (and we surrender the 2nd most blocks in the league), lead the league in blocks per game/blocks surrendered per game difference, last in the league in overall defensive efficiency (which takes all the undesirable stats, i.e. points surrendered per game, turnovers per game, etc. and subtracts them from the desirable ones) at -5.13. Phoenix leads the league at +7.87, which makes it a discrepancy of 13, which is exponential if you really examine what these numbers take into account). We are last in the league in opponents field goal percentage and opponents 3 point percentage. And maybe the stat that sheds the most blinding light on our embattled franchise, we lead the league in double digit losses and for 25 point or more losses, we have more than twice as many as the rest of the NBA combined. Let’s go Derrick Rose . . . although we’d probably take OJ (Ovinton J’Anthony) Mayo.

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Found my collection of old basketball cards yesterday, thought I would share some shots from the most honerable knicks teams of the 90s.

Gotta pay respect to the man in the middle....

Gotta pay respect to the man in the middle....
We miss you big man.

This is Petra, and she's really fly.

This is Petra, and she's really fly.
Supposedly this is the dancer Isiah / MSG paid to flirt with Referees. Who knows if this is true (it came out after this whole harassment case, and right now any money hungry female garden employee is planning a case against MSG...but i wouldn't doubt it.). Good job Isiah.
Stephon Marbury recently opened up a custom car company, called Star-Motoring, featuring a Phantolade. Actually looks kinda dope.

This guy is supposed to lead the Knicks to a NBA title?