Until Thursday the woeful Knickerbockers were on their high horse when it came to signing Allen Iverson. They had their plan. Clear salary-cap space for next year’s free-agent class. Develop young players. Jettison bad character players. As recently as Tuesday, such a signing was called “unlikely.â€
Eleven games into in a new season everyone, including Donnie Walsh and Coach “Mike D’Antonio†as Walsh called him during the introductory news conference, knows that the Knicks are barely watchable. They lack soul, chemistry and personality, not to mention the talent needed to consistently win in the muscle-bound East.
All of a sudden Iverson, who becomes a free agent at 6 p.m. on Thursday, began to look like a glass of water to a thirsty man.
