Coach D’Antoni is taking his Seven Seconds or Less attack to the Big Apple in a move that will probably ruin his career

SCOTT JACOBS

It’s official.  For at least a day the sports world has been flipped on its head.

On the same day that the penny pinching Florida Marlins handed superstar Hanley Ramirez a 6 year $70 million deal, the largest in franchise history, the New York Knicks, the lumbering, god-awful New York Knicks have locked Mike D’Antoni into a contract that will probably end any title aspirations he ever had.

The Chicago Bulls, a team so perfectly ideal for D’Antoni’s no defense, no bench style, are out of the picture.

Enter the Knicks, the sad sack Knickerbockers and their four year $24 million dollar contract, probably the worst fir imaginable for the Coach’s style, and get your kicks out of the fact that Coach D is taking the money over the sanity and wins that would have come with the Bulls.

As a Suns fan, fed up with this little game D’Antoni has been playing lately, it’s a joyous day.  Mike D’Antoni is leaving a team has won no less then 54 games in his last four seasons, including a pair of Western Conference Finals berths, for a Knicks team that is in total disarray.

D’Antoni is leaving behind $9 1/2 million with the Suns over the next two years, for a big payday, and one heck of a nightmare.

It’s comical. His true colors are finally showing.

For the Knicks, it’s a dream P.R. move.  Bring in the coach who brought back sizzle to the league to the NBA’s biggest market and revive hope that self-destructive Knick fans had given up on.

It looks great on paper… for the eternal optimist.

(D’Antoni teams up with Donnie Walsh to turn around the worst run franchise in the league, leads them to the playoffs in his first season as they put up a cool 110 a night, allowing 108.  In year two they make the second round, becoming the NBA’s marquee product again, and all is well again in New York.  Nate Robinson becomes Steve Nash, and the Knicks advance to the East Finals two years in a row, before falling apart because they refuse to play defense or extend their bench.  Knicks fans, thrilled just to be winning again, eventually develop expectations, and get aggravated when D’Antoni refuses to make changes. By year four, the Knicks are fed up with D’Antoni’s lack of defensive effort, and the media runs him out of town with the Knicks on the decline.)

Okay, seriously… Knicks fans would kill for that scenario. I got news for them though, it ain’t going to work.

The Knicks are all wrong for D’Antoni’s system.  Fat out of shape Zach Randolph and inconcistent Eddie Curry team up with stubborn Stephon marbury to form the worst possible team for D’Antoni’s system.

It remains to be seen with New York’s unlimited payroll, if the Knicks will attempt to completely revamp their roster, or if they will dupe a team into taking one of their many bad contracts.  But on the day that the Seven Seconds or Less Era officially ends in Phoenix, at least I can take solice in knowing that D’Antoin is putting himself in a position to fail horribly in front of the whole world.

D’Antoni got bought out, and he gets to spend his next four years in Knick hell trying to bring back the NBA’s most disfunctional team.  He though Suns owner Robert Sarver was bad, wait till he sees James Dolan.  That guy is a real basket case.

So the D’Antoni chase is over.

Phoenix is now looking for a coach after winning 54 games.

The Bulls are still looking too…

Mike D’Antoni is a New York Knick.  April Fools.

That would be the only thing that would make this story make sense.

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