<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Apparently, if not for the "I" word, we would be preparing ourselves for some kind of special basketball extravaganza at Madison Square Garden this week. Apparently, if not for injuries, the Knicks were fully revved, fully prepared to take a weed whacker to the rest of the NBA's Eastern Conference. "I think it's pretty safe to say had we not been so decimated, things would be different tonight," Thomas said the other night, a few minutes after the Knicks' season ended in Charlotte.</div> Sourse