Text Messages and Google: Knicks and Nuggets React to Blockbuster Trade

(Staten Island native, Renaldo Balkman, is back home for a second stint with the Knicks. He's ready to contribute!)

With the Melodrama finally coming to a close late last evening, the reactions have been pouring in. Seems like just about everyone who's ever seen an NBA game has an opinion about this blockbuster trade.
So we figured we'd give you a break over here at No Regard and instead of waxing poetic about whose gonna take the last shot for the new-look Knicks (it will be Chauncey, FYI, not because that's how Mike will draw it up but because Billups thinks he's the man), we've decided to hypothesize the sorts of texts messages and Google searches the different individuals involved with the deal have been firing away in the last 12 hours.

Guest Post: An Open Letter to James Dolan

This off-season has made everyone more passionate than normal. Casual fans started listening more intently, and die-hard fans started speaking up even more than usual. A long-time friend of No Regard, asking to be known here simply as Mugsy2Manute, is a member of the latter group. He's also been a Knicks fan since birth and sent us this piece not because we asked for it, but because he couldn't keep quiet under these circumstances. Besides, he's a smart NBA fan and who sent us a picture of James Dolan next to an Ewok; how could we say no?

Dear Mr. Dolan,

If your marriage was in shambles, and you needed outside help, would you hire Tiger Woods as your counselor? No? Didn't think so. What if you were Barack Obama, tasked with responding to the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf. Would you send the disgraced, former head of FEMA Mike Brown to Louisiana to help get things under control? Doubtful. So, pray tell, what in God's good name are you thinking rehiring Isiah Thomas as a "consultant" after firing him two years ago for driving an already descending Knicks team deeper into the abyss? I mean, are you for real?