The James has landed in New York

Only in New York City could a basketball player do everything right - shoot with range, play tough defense, find his teammates with pinpoint passes, working with a sense of flair and drama all along - and still have it come off as slightly gauche, and unseemly. That's what tonight's Cavalier win over the New York Knicks felt like. An attention-drawing exercise to its core, bent on pumping up the "will he or won't he?" question regarding LeBron James'(notes) impending 2010 free agency, and a Knick team that would dearly love to sign him with its just-as impending 2010 cap space. Cleveland's win? It hardly mattered. The team did well to rebound fully from a tough loss to Chicago the night before, as coach Mike Brown seemed willing to tinker with new starting lineups (Anderson Varejao(notes) out, J.J. Hickson(notes) in), while the defense and offensive spacing improved. The story was James, though. And, to a far lesser extent, a Knicks club that seems mor...