Team Dysfunctional The Next Generation: Knicks Suspend Marbury

There has to be something in Madison Square Garden that has a toxic effect on formerly respected NBA personnel. Maybe it's Radon, but what ever it is it seems to take hold quickly and completely, making the victim an incompetent version of what he once was. Dave Checketts was it's victim a man who came in to run the New York Knickerbockers with a pretty good reputation, and resume. He was fired a few years later, the team in shambles, his reputation in tatters. Larry Brown has felt it's wrath. Whether you love the "Nomad of the NBA" or despise him you have to admit the man know how to win. Not with the New York Knicks, fired after an abysmal season one year into a multi-year contract.