[HajiShirazu]

I just read this starting lineup, and even though I knew it already, it just hit me. The three top "name" players in the league that I had personally associated with losing, because no team that featured these players had ever been good plus teams that traded them away always got better, Francis, Marbury, and Rose, are all on the Knicks. And actually, most of their other players also fit the description of "addition by subtraction" for the teams that got rid of them. Look at the Bulls and Clippers nowadays. Both looking very healthy.
It's almost like they were trying to build a team that had a payroll as high as possible while also building a loser at the same time. I could not possibly have done a better job. Isiah is a genius.