Knicks' Gallinari lucky injury isn't worse

Danilo Gallinari still has not watched video of the play that sprained his knee and knocked him out of action for the next two to three weeks. "Because," he said in the Knicks locker room before the game Tuesday night, "my family and friends told me it's not nice to see."

In fact, it looked like it could have resulted in a worse injury, what with Pacers guard Brandon Rush accidentally falling into the Knicks small forward and making his knee buckle a little sideways. It could have knocked him out for months instead of weeks, although Gallinari had been optimistic right after the game Sunday about returning in days.

"Right after the game, you want to get right back on the court. You're feeling not great, but not that bad," he said. "So you hope and you think the recovery time is not going to be that long. But the truth is always the next day after the injury."

Not buying new Knicks

Although Spurs forward Richard Jefferson lived in Manhattan when he played for the Nets, he is not among the many people who are buying the whole New York basketball renaissance idea. He said recently, "This is not a Boston Celtics team or like the Lakers franchise. What year was the last time they won a championship, 1973?"

'D' as in D'Antoni?

Former Syracuse center Roosevelt Bouie, who was at Knicks practice Monday, said he played against both Mike D'Antoni and Danilo Gallinari's father in Italy. The latter was more of a playmaker than his son and the former was primarily a defender.