Talk:Knicks haven't developed a Superstar since Patrick Ewing/@comment-93324-20060507190652

"At some point, the Knicks have to make their own cookies." I like that.

Asking for a superstar is a tall order for any team, but some solid players would be nice. As it is, the Knicks haven&quot;t done a thing through the draft since P-Ew&quot;s selection in &quot;85. Hell, from 1995-2004 they didn&quot;t even add a single player that stuck in the rotation for more than a year. Let that sink in for a second. In 1999, they took Freddie Weis over Ron Artest, James Posey, Jeff Foster, Kenny Thomas, and Andrei Kirilenko, among other current NBA regulars. Wallace & McCarty were taken over Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Derek Fisher in &quot;96; Nene was taken over Amare Stoudemire (!), Caron Butler, Tayshaun Prince, and Nenad Krstic in 2002. More troubling, though, are all the instances in which New York hasn&quot;t even had a first-round pick, having mortgaged their future by including picks in ill-fated trades. In 2004, 2001, 2000, and 1998, the Knicks had no first-round selections; those drafts happened to include the likes of Tony Parker, Jamaal Tinsley, Brendan Haywood, Samuel Dalembert, Gerald Wallace, Al Harrington, Nazr Mohammed, Ricky Davis, Ruben Patterson, and Rashard Lewis -- available late in the first round, where they could have been easily snapped up by the Knicks. Instead, New York&quot;s pitiful GM contingents (I&quot;m looking at you, Isiah Thomas and Scott Layden!) indulged themselves in an endless cycle of overpriced MLE acquisitions and trades -- often deals that included giving away first-rounders. So you&quot;re totally right, Dre-Lo: if Knick fans want answers for questions like, "How did this mess happen?" and "Is this what salary cap hell feels like?", they need look no further than the Knicks&quot; botched drafts in the past two decades.