<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>According to basketball writer Percy Allen's blog for the Seattle Times, Isiah Thomas' favored son, Jamal Crawford, said he would be open to a trade away from New York. "Crawford is ready for a new change of venue," Allen wrote in his blog, which was posted yesterday. "He told me he's making the best of a tough situation, but wouldn't mind being traded." Crawford denied that yesterday, saying, "That's not true. I didn't say it. I don't think that."</div> Newsday
