It’s the most anticipated game on the NBA calendar, a battle of powerhouse franchises fighting for the heart of America’s biggest city…
Or, it could be a big steaming pile of… that stuff you have to scrape off the bottom of your shoe sometimes.
It’s the Thursday night showdown between the 3-13 Knicks vs. the 5-13 Nets in a game one team will have to win. It’s in the rules. It’s also a game in the national spotlight as a TNT Thursday showcase game, complete with Charles Barkley and the Inside the NBA crew mocking these teams that are out-tanking the teams that were trying to tank for the lottery (and the Knicks don’t even have a lottery pick this year, they traded it).
Carmelo Anthony bracing himself for Charles Barkley: "We are the laughingstock of the league right now. Do I like being laughed at? Hell no"
— Frank Isola (@TheFrankIsola) December 4, 2013
Jason Kidd summed up the “showdown” this way to the Bergin Record.
Frank Isola of the Daily News asked ‘Melo about that comment.
Carmelo on Jason Kidd saying both the Knicks and Nets stink: ""We do. He wasn't lying about that."
— Frank Isola (@TheFrankIsola) December 4, 2013
TNT — they know drama. And this ain’t it.
And the participants supposed to be hyping the game up aren’t helping much.