The Drubbing

Life on the road for NBA players is hard. You spend days or weeks away from your home and your families. You spend night after night in hotel beds. Each day is spent mostly in transit from plane to bus to hotel to bus to stadium to bus to plane and so on. But every team has to do it. Some teams even have notoriously tough annual pilgrimages like the Chicago Bulls and their “Circus Road Trip” that they endure each year while The Ringling Brothers Circus takes over the United Center.We know it’s not all rainbows and unicorns, so most teams just play through it. But the New York Knicks aren’t most teams.

Eddy Curry was holding several Knicks players close during the Oklahoma City road trip

The Knicks most recent excuse for their dismal 15 and 22 record this season is something extraordinary. On a recent road trip which included a pit stop in Oklahoma City for an 18-point blowout loss, the Knicks later blamed their poor performance on ghosts. That’s right, ghosts. Several Knicks players complained after the game that they had gotten only a couple hours of sleep the previous night because of noises they heard in the historic and allegedly haunted Skirvin Hilton Oklahoma City hotel. One of the Knicks that was most disturbed by the haunting was Eddy Curry, who claimed he slept only two hours Sunday night before the game. That must have really effected the Knicks performance, since Curry never even made it off the bench.

And this can only be made more disappointing by a recent Knicks ad I saw that read:

No matter the opponent.

No matter the moment.

No fear plays here.

But apparently “No fear” does not play on the road. C’mon man!