As It Was In The Beginning, So Shall It Be In the End

That didn't take long, did it?

It only took 5 games for the Knicks to revert back to being a complete mess. Who knows what will end up happening with Marbury? None of the options are particularly appealing at this point.

If they let him come back, how can that be good for team chemistry? Not to mention the fact that he looks like exactly the wrong point guard to be running this team. They need a pass first point guard who makes good entry passes into the post, and who can hit open long-range jumpers. That sentence in no way defines Starbury.

If they buy him out, how is that good for the team? Another $40 million down the hole, with a lingering stench of ineptitude and failure. And a mindset is further entrenched, so everyone knows that all you have to do is bitch enough and the Knicks will just buy you out, so you can go somewhere else.

They can't trade him. Who wants an aging shoot-first point guard that's not exactly known for being a good team guy and that's still making $20 million a year for the next two years? What can they even get in return? More problem players and bad contracts? How does that help?

They can't really afford to get rid of him either, from a basketball perspective. Who else is there to play the point? Mardy Collins? Yikes.

I can't even form a decent opinion about what I think they should do. Part of me wants them to keep him, and just take their lumps with him this year and buy him out at the end of the year, when they have a better idea of where the rest of the team is and what other point guards might be out there for them to acquire or draft.

And the rest of me would just like to see him go already. I'm beyond tired of Steph and his antics. Unlike people like Rasheed Wallace or Stephen Jackson or even Ron Artest, Starbury's play on the court doesn't make me want to forgive him his toxic personality and craziness off the court. If he never plays another Knicks minute, I won't miss him.

And we were just starting to get a little optimistic about this year. Silly us.

Like a large whole fish that's been sitting in the sun, this just stinks no matter what you do.

The only possible upside is that maybe this is what finally brings us the end of the reign of Isiah. Which would be fitting, since getting Marbury was his first big move as GM. If the handling of getting rid of him was Isiah's final undoing, it would be a kind of poetic end. Well, one of those poetic ends to a Shakespeare tragedy where everyone dies, but still.

Good riddance to all, and to all a good night.