Knicks and Lakers Having Different Seasons So Far

This year in the NBA has been surprising for two teams that met last night at Madison Square Garden. First were the visiting LA Lakers who have started the season very poorly with either Mike Brown or Mike D'Antoni as head coach. The other were the New York Knicks who are doing so well and even fooling people into thinking they are for real.

As for the game itself, it was the Knicks starting off fast and keeping the Lakers at bay. Carmelo Anthony scored 30 points on the evening and might've gotten more if he didn't get a sprained ankle in the 3rd quarter. New York shot 12/25 from 3 point land hitting 48% from beyond the arc. The Lakers also had 12 three's but they also took 12 more 3 point shots. Kobe Bryant did score 31 points and the Lakers did get over a 100 but they still lost to the Knicks 116-107.

The Knicks get another win and improve to 17-5 while still remaining undefeated at home (9-0). This win against their old coach is also their 8th win in 9 games. Meanwhile, the Lakers fall to 9-14 and while they didn't have Pau Gasol or Steve Nash playing they still shouldn't be this bad.

We should still reserve the ultimate judgement on D'Antoni until Nash returns but the team is struggling, they don't play defense well (like any D'Antoni team), and Kobe has seeming spoken way too much about what is happening around the Lakers. I kind of like them like this.

P.S. Maybe I'll just watch the LA Clippers instead. HEY, I REMEMBERED THEIR TEAM NAME!!!!

Lakers Fire Mike Brown After 1-4 Start

... Or the Lakers could panic now and fire their head coach.

That's exactly what they did earlier today when the Lakers fired Mike Brown after one full season, a few miserable games this year as head coach, and one powerful Kobe death stare that leaves Medusa envious. When the team acquired both Steve Nash and Dwight Howard, there was talk that Brown was going to introduce the Princeton Offense to the team as a way to create offense. It didn't seem to work at all. The team started 1-4 which was not adequate to Lakers fans despite the fact that Steve Nash has been injured for most of that stretch. Either way, they fired Mike Brown and are now looking for a head coach... or leaving Phil Jackson a bunch of messages on his machine.

So what about the team as of now. Assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff will take over for tonight's game vs. the Warriors. I am no expert on the Lakers but my feeling is that Bickerstaff will be just an interim coach and not a permanent replacement for Mike Brown. I'm not kidding about "calling Phil Jackson" comment. They might just want to go to Phil and beg him to come back. If that doesn't work, start kissing his a**. They have no where else to go right now.

Whatever they do to solve this vacancy, it better be good. Kobe is old and getting older, so is Steve Nash, and the so called "Future of the Lakers" (Dwight Howard) might just leave after one season on the team. How this season goes for the Lakers could determine how the team will look for the foreseeable future.