the knicks beat writers are quite possibly the worst in the league.
totally fabricated stories. absolutely horrible. the sad thing is that the casual fans, and the sports radio guys that don't follow the team, buy into it. it's really pretty irresponsible and pretty unbelievable the stuff they can get away with.

I saw this thread later so I am gonna paste in here:

I have always said this, when it comes to the media, just give me the facts. I dont like the media's analysis 90% of the times. The media disliked Patrick Ewing for christ sake. Marbury is probably not a good leader but I doubt he is a disruptive/divisive guy. I would rather have Mitch tell me what happened in the locker room with Marbury and TT or Marbury and KT. Then, if I am still confused I would ask Marv, martin, HARDCORE, Nalod, guns, VDesai, franco, Rich, fishmike, BRIGGS, tkf, Enyspree, joec32033 (I can seriously go on forever with names of guys on ultimate that make more sense than the media) to analyze it for me.

Posted by martin:

2 writers stick out as good in my mind: Beck (NYTimes) and Dave D'alessandro (who now does Nets).

agreed. I wish there was a way we could get our own source for unbiased Knicks news.

There are three people in the media who constalntly put down everything Isiah Thomas does. Those three are Marc Stein, HOliinger and Mith Lawrence. The other news people all fall in too my hater category too but those three make it their buisness to talk bad about every thing Isiah does. He must have done somehting like sleep with their wives or refuse to give them any exclusive interview but for whatever reason these cats don't have anythin postive to say about Lord Isiah. So since he can't tell ya'll in public I would like to say for knicks fans and Isiah F-yall fake wannabe journalist. Ya'll don't know jack

I think what bothers me is the total lack of information. You get 5% information which comes from an unnamed league source, you get 10% recap or old news, and the other 85% is opinion followed by more opinion of someone elses opinion.

You learn nothing from reading these papers. Nothing about a player or something that actually happened, and even less of actual basketball. Teach me something about the game.

I love the unnamed source. Personally I think most of these writers go to NYK20 as their Knick source.

Yeah, I wish they would give me updates on what LB covered in practice. Who looked to be in shape. What some of the drills were. Player reactions. Opinions from coaches(without spin). INFORMATION!!! Enough conspiracy theories.

Ever since that classic Jordan episode where he told the US basketball team he wouldn't participate if Isiah is involved and then the classic walk out by the Bad boyz after the bulls beat them back in 91. Isiah has become and still is a favorite target of media people and forum posters alike. I grew up in Detroit when the Bad Boyz were the hero's of the town and he was my favorite player to ever play the game. A competitor in every sine of the word. Now in these days every move he makes is a public headline and every trade and free agent siging is scrutnized like it's more than a basketball game. It's just basketball and evey GM makes mitakes but none are crucified like Isiah in the media. Allan Bristow who just quit the Hornets made some of the worst trades NBA History with his Baron for Dale Davis trade and then there's Chris Mullin throwing money at every stiff availabe(Derek fisher and Adonal folye). And who can forget the logo Jerry West putting together the biggest group of ego maniacs you could ever find with jason williams, bonzi wells and Stromile Swift. Jerry west also signed Jake Tsakladis to an insane contract that he did not deserve I think he gets paid about the same amount Jerome James but yet and still he's glued to the bench. But yet and still you don't hear people on Espn and fox sports calling them Bad Gm's but when Isiah takes a gamble on a player that player is automatically labeled someone with bad charcter can someone please explain this to me