Ok, most of my basketball predictions have been wrong, but this is a sure bet. Isiah Thomas will be canned before the 2007 Basketball season. The Knicks are starting to look like the Yankees - without all the championships and good players of course. Forget “Days of our lives” or “Another World”, the 2006 Knicks are going to be a the soap opera to watch this fall. I was checking out the roster salaries and found that in 2006 the Knicks paid three players, Allan Houston (retired - 2nd highest paid player in the league behind Shaq), Jerome Williams (released), and Shannon Anderson (released) as much as the entire Charlotte Bobcats roster (roughly 33 mil). Oh yeah, the Bobcats went 3-0 against the Knicks this year.

PS - The Knicks also paid Anfernee Hardaway roughly 16 mil in 2006 - the twelfth highest paid player in the league. Anfernee played in 4 games averaging 2.5 ppg.

The Knicks are looking to sign John Koncak, Tony Mandarich, and Bruce Sutter in the offseason.