What do you expect from excessive media coverage?

In real life, there won\'t be dramas every single day. If you have excessive media coverage, what are you going to get? When there is news, you will get full coverage, from background to foreground. But what if there is no noteworthy news? There will be rumors - someone overheard something from someone\'s relative/friend/neighbor, who happens to be somewhat close to a secondhand source of someone is really close to the ongoing. Later on, that someone who has a blog online, decides to make small things bigger, or make something out of nothing.

ESPN message board is known for its crappiness in the sports world. ESPN rumors are even a lot worse than rumor mill in the stock market. BTW, according to ESPN rumors, LeBron James should have been played a few years in New York already. Yao Ming should have been played a few years in New York as well. Of course, Kevin Garnet, Vince Carter, and a few other past superstars in their prime days, should have been played in New York. According to ESPN, the whole world resolves around New York City. So, please take everything you heard from ESPN with a grain of salt, for your own peace of mind:)

New York Knicks has been struggling, Carmelo Anthony has been struggling, and Amare Stoudemire has been struggling. There were, are, and will be news, rumors, and wild guesses surrounding them, till they stop struggling. As I stated before, in my book, except for Durant, Rose, and LBJ, there is NOBODY else is untouchable at this point of their careers. But one has to bear in mind, trade means exchanging needs, you can\'t just hope to rip off others, nor should you just fire sale out of frustration.

That being said, I never oppose to trade anyone (even in Yao\'s prime, well, not during that month when he put up 25-12 and taunted opponents you can\'t fxxking stop me!) , if the trade makes sense.

Before we explore any possible trades, let\'s exam what Knicks have now. The so-called dream team or winning team led by Jeremy Lin for the exciting and magical 7-0 run, consists of Tyson Chandler, Jared Jeffries, Landry Fields, Iman Shumpert, Steve Novak, and Jeremy Lin. It was led by Lin, with 6 total main figures.

Chandler averages 11.4 points, Fields 9.9, Novak 8.3, Iman 9.4, Jeffries 4.8, and Lin for 15. That\'s 6 people for roughly 60 points. For argument\'s sake, since Lin is going to be the absolute No. 1 to call the shots, let\'s just assume he will average 40 points per game from now on. That will make it 85 points per game, and you know they won\'t win many games with that output. Not to mention, if Lin is doubled or trapped, only Fields can play some one on one. Your entire front line doesn\'t have ANY single player can do a post up or a drive with the ball or a turnaround jumper. You will see a lot of those ugly scenes we saw before, that Lin got trapped near the mid court, Novak has the ball in his hand, and just launches a prayer 6 feet behind the 3 pointer line.

OK, Knicks are not that good to throw away 30+ million. Well, if you put career 20 points scorer on the bench, you can hope they will be professional and still work hard and contribute. I don\'t think it\'s going to happen, but you can still hope. Trading Melo and Amare only makes sense when you can get scorers back, who are also willing to play some defense. After all, Melo did average 21.3 points and Amare averaged 17.7 points. That\'s 39 points to make up. Sports cliche, will, effort, extra hard work, over-achieving will win you games here and there, or even 5, 10, 15 points each game consistently, but it won\'t make up 39 points for you in every game.

Making BOLD decision might sound determined or big-boss-like, but make sure you have a pros-cons comparison. Rumors are called rumors for a reason, and unidentified source is normally just someone scratching his/her head in front of a blank screen:)