The Knicks Fix

That was an impressive performance by Eddy Curry tonight against the Sonics. He hit all nine of his field goals - all of them were in the paint and many of them were dunks. We're getting used to that, I guess. But it was the 7 for 12 from the free throw line that caught my attention the most.

Imagine how dominant Curry would be if he was a 75-percent free throw shooter. I'm not even going to get greedy and try to consider him above 80 percent. But 75 percent? Using his current statistics after 36 games (162-for-278 from the line, a 58.3 percent clip), if he shot 75 percent from the line he would have 47 more points. That would mean him averaging 20.2 points per game as opposed to 18.7. You wonder if those 47 points might have also been the difference in a few losses this season.

Curry is still developing and developing right before our eyes. Some nights he still can get bottled up by a double-team. But other nights he can be a force on the paint like you don't often see anymore in this game.

And yet he's still way behind in the all-star voting (I mean really, how does Zaza Pachulia, Andrew Bogut and Zydrunas Ilgauskas get more votes?), but Curry could be added as a reserve in recognition for his emergence this season as a go-to guy for the Knicks. It'll be hard to squeeze another center on the East All-Stars with Shaq and Dwight Howard, but it's debatable that Ben Wallace deserves a spot this year more than Curry.

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Regarding Curry's 9-for-9, it missed tying the franchise record for most field goals in a game without a miss by two shots (and, keep in mind, Curry didn't play in the fourth quarter). The record of 11-for-11 is shared by Bernard King, who set the mark on Jan. 19, 1984 against the Chicago Bulls, and Johnny Newman, who tied it on Jan. 6, 1988.

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While the Knicks were having fun in their blowout win, Sonics fans weren't too happy. So they started up a chant of "We Want Jerome!" for former Sonic Jerome James, who, which is worth mentioning, was booed when he entered the game in the first half. The chant grew loud and the Knick bench broke up in laughter. Stephon Marbury joined in on the chant and Kelvin Cato and Quentin Richardson were laughing hysterically. Isiah Thomas then looked down the bench at James and raised his eyebrows as if to say, "You want to go in?"

James smiled and declined.

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Just had to point this out: Using Thomas' logic for the fight that broke out between the Denver Nuggets and Knicks last month (when Thomas blamed George Karl for leaving in his starters and showing up the Knicks on their home floor by dunking the ball in a blowout), shouldn't the Sonics have tried to take out one of the Knicks after Jamal Crawford attempted an unnecessary alley-oop pass to David Lee late in the fourth quarter? The Knicks saved face because Lee didn't read Crawford's intention and the pass bounced off the rim.

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Sir Mix-A-Lot was courtside at the game in Seattle. So his joints weren't as groundbreaking as they were just pop appealing, but you have to admit he did bring into the public realm the undeniable appeal of the maximus gluteus. A few years later, J-Lo made it an artform. And then Beyonce took it to the Michaelangelo level.

And now families sitting all around an arena in Seattle were dancing and smiling as they sang,

I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waste
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung

Good, clean family fun. Shake that booty mom!

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Kind of bummed I didn't have time to visit Viretta Park, where there is a Kurt Cobain memorial. I wished there was something downtown in Seattle, similar to John Lennon's legendary spot in Central Park. But then again, Lennon was more of a Manhattan cat, while Cobain seemed more of a suburban loafer. Still, the melancholy poet and Messiah of the Grunge Era is one of my greatest influences -- writing wise, not the drug use -- from my generation. Ferris Bueller, Kurt Cobain and Chuck D.

One of my favorite Cobain lines is from "Something in the Way" when he takes a shot at some self-righteous vegetarians who make it their mission to lecture us carnivores about ingesting other once-living animals with apparent souls, such as cattle and fowl. Yet things that once lived in the water is fair game.

It's OK to eat fish
Cause they don't have any feelings
Something in the way
Mmmm, Hmmmm
Something in the way, yeah
Mmmm, Hmmmm

Speaking of Chuck, they were playing "Bring the Noise" at Key Arena and you know I was mouthing the words. This song always got me fired up before games when I was in high school.

Whatcha gonna do? rap is not afraid of you
Beat is for sonny bono, beat is for yoko ono
Run-dmc first said a deejay could be a band
Stand on its feet, get you out your seat
Beat is for eric b. and ll, as well, hell
Wax is for anthrax, still it can rock bells
Ever forever, universal, it will sell
Time for me to exit, terminator x-it