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Bobcats, Knicks battle at MSG

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12/20/2006 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Knicks continue their homestand tonight when they welcome the Charlotte Bobcats to Madison Square Garden.

New York is 1-1 on the homestand and defeated Utah, 97-96, in overtime on Monday night. Stephon Marbury was the hero with the game-winning layup as time expired. He ended with 29 points and eight assists as the Knicks followed one of their ugliest events in franchise history with one of their best wins of the season. The Knicks were involved in a melee with the Denver Nuggets on Saturday.

David Lee ended with 17 points and a career-high 20 rebounds for the Knicks, who ended a two-game slide. Jamal Crawford added 18 points and Channing Frye had 10 points and 10 boards for New York, which had just eight players available because of the suspensions that were handed down on Monday as a result of the incident.

New York's Nate Robinson got a 10-game suspension, while Mardy Collins was suspended for six games and teammate Jared Jeffries was given a four-game penalty. Jerome James was suspended one game for leaving the bench during the altercation.

Meanwhile, the Bobcats have lost five of six games, including Saturday's 106-100 loss to the Boston Celtics. Gerald Wallace netted a season-high 31 points for the Bobcats, who again failed to win back-to-back games for the first time this season.

Raymond Felton and Adam Morrison both scored 16 points, while Emeka Okafor posted 12 points, a season-high 19 rebounds and matched his franchise-record with eight blocked shots.

The Knicks are 4-10 at home and will host Chicago on Friday.

Charlotte has won three straight and four of the seven meetings with New York.

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Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).

Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.

Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).

Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.

Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.

The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.

What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.

Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.

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