NEW YORK — In 14 months as Knicks president, Donnie Walsh's claim to fame is erasing two bloated salaries belonging to Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford ($27,413,333) from New York's 2010 payroll, therefore, giving the team roughly $34 million in "additional" cap space to charm a couple collector items whose names escape me to forsake their franchises.
The operative word is additional; in all this time not a single media mope (me, too) ever mentioned the Knicks already were $7 million under the cap in 2010 when Walsh superseded Isiah Thomas.
I remain convinced the Knicks could have pressed for a playoff spot had the pair not been sent packing early on for Cuttino Mobley's sick ticker and Al Harrington's leading man mentality, and Mike D'Antoni had done right by Stephon Marbury.