"Garden chairman Jim Dolan can finally look out on his basketball court on Saturday night and see that he's built himself a winner.

Unfortunately for Dolan, it won't be the NBA team he owns.

In fairness, the Denver Nuggets were a playoff team long before Dolan orchestrated the Carmelo Anthony trade. But since the team's owner ordered Donnie Walsh to gut the Knicks to bring Anthony to the Garden, the Nuggets have continued on an upward trajectory, while the Knicks find themselves these days with 'Melo often grinding the offense to a halt and Amar'e Stoudemire very likely longing for the days he was king of New York."