NEW YORK — Considering the squall of trade winds that relayed the names of Amare Stoudemire, Vince Carter, Shaq, Richard Jefferson and Gerald Wallace throughout the NBA it's safe to say none of the deals blew us away or remotely provoked anyone to exclaim, "Like, whoa!"

The first inclination of valued misanthropists was to write off the Knicks deal with the Bulls as one team's trash is now another team's trash.

"This wasn't a trade," column castigator Frank Drucker underlined, "it was a prisoner exchange."