Check out the ESPN Motion Dot Comedy Sports Guy: Lottery Ticket.

It's hilarious.

put up a link man!

Even an idiot like Dolan should have learned from the McDyess trade.

Posted by SKY:

Check out the ESPN Motion Dot Comedy Sports Guy: Lottery Ticket.

It's hilarious.

POST A FRIGGIN LINK!!!!!!!!

I think they're mock draft is very realistic unlike nbadraft.net http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2005/index

Thanx. It is just so envogue to hate the knicks and everything associated with them. Thats even true for many on this board. Its disgusting, I hate it!

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by Rich:

Even an idiot like Dolan should have learned from the McDyess trade.

I agree; don't ever trade a lottery pick for an injury prone player

McDyess wasn't injury prone at the time though. He had that one knee surgery, and that was it. Nobody thought he was gonna reinjure it. But yes, we should learn from that anyway. If someone has had a severe knee surgery, you don't wanna risk the future on him, and then some, unless the guy is like 22 and has proven that he's 100% recovered and probably wont reinjure it.

when the Knicks traded for him he had had 1 kneee injury. Only one. Look at his #s... He came back and broke it after those 2 preseason games. He had surgery to repair that injury (surgery #2). When it took him a long time to heal he had additional surgery (micro fracture, surgery #3) because the knee cap wasnt healing "properly."

So how is a guy thats only had one injury considered injury prone

Posted by fishmike:

when the Knicks traded for him he had had 1 kneee injury. Only one. Look at his #s... He came back and broke it after those 2 preseason games. He had surgery to repair that injury (surgery #2). When it took him a long time to heal he had additional surgery (micro fracture, surgery #3) because the knee cap wasnt healing "properly."

So how is a guy thats only had one injury considered injury prone

Didn't McDyess try to come back with Denver during the season but hurt himself and had to miss the rest of the season while they operated. I could be wrong. I thought that when he played in the Knicks pre-season games it was his second time coming back after he initially injured himself. I could be wrong.

http://www.nba.com/playerfile/antonio_mcdyess/bio.html

like I said. After the original injury we traded for him. He blew his knee out after 2 preaseason game and had 2 surgeries on the same knee before playing again. I remember they did the 2nd surgery when his knee cap wasnt healing and they drilled holes to improve blood flow. I thought thats what microfracture surgery was... drilling holes. Either way the point was he only had had one injury and that one surgery before we got him.

Posted by fishmike:

http://www.nba.com/playerfile/antonio_mcdyess/bio.html

like I said. After the original injury we traded for him. He blew his knee out after 2 preaseason game and had 2 surgeries on the same knee before playing again. I remember they did the 2nd surgery when his knee cap wasnt healing and they drilled holes to improve blood flow. I thought thats what microfracture surgery was... drilling holes. Either way the point was he only had had one injury and that one surgery before we got him.

Here's a good McDyess biography.
http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/McDyess/McDyess_bio.html

McDyess first injured his left knee toward the end of that year he put up 20/10 #s (two seasons before the Knick trade).

The second half of the season failed to live up to the promise of the first half. Antonio injured his knee and missed 11 games. The team collapsed without their star, and struggled to win even after he returned. Once again, the Nuggets missed the playoffs, and Antonio took it hard. Despite leading the team with 20.8 points and 12.1 rebounds a game, he accepted the blame for their sour second half.

He then injured it during training camp the next year and again about 10 games into the season, at which point he had surgery.

The Nuggets failed to make a major move in the off-season. Fans were hoping they would add a complementary superstar to ease the burden on Antonio, but no such deal surfaced. Then, 10 games into the 2001-02 season, Antonio went down with an injury to his left knee. The decision was made to repair it surgically, and he was done for the year.

There were at least three separate occasions where he injured his knee over a 2 season span before Layden acquired him. That qualifies as injury prone to me.

I think this is the bone graft surgery that you (Fish) are confusing for microfracture surgery.

After nearly six months of rehab, Antionio's knee was reevaluated. Doctors determined that the healing process was too slow, and that additional surgery was required. In late April, Antonio underwent a bone graft operation at the Mayo Clinic. Team officials called it a "bump in the road," and pointed out that it would expedite his return.