My childhood room is still filled with posters from the 90's, the good ole glory days. And not just Ewing, LJ, Houston, I'm talking Rick Brunson NYK articles cut-out, laminated, and still in what is now basically a museum. Pictures of me at 13-years old with blue & orange colored braces, that's a tough yearbook photo, and in a Knicks collared shirt to match nonetheless! After all the ups, downs, more downs, more downs, infinite downs, I have reached my absolute breaking point.

Still, I had questions, so I called Perlmutter on Tuesday, with three days remaining in his auction. "Why now?" I asked him. Perlmutter is certainly not the only frustrated Knicks fan in the city. But given the presence of the young core featuring Kristaps Porzingis, apotential franchise player, as well as Frank Ntilikina and rookie Kevin Knox, who dazzled in the NBA Summer League, this does seem to be a strange time for a Knicks fan to take this sort of stand.

Perlmutter disagreed. Strongly. For one, he said, the Knicks have been promising a better future for a decade, only to repeatedly let their fans down. He pointed to the team's 2010 free-agency pursuit of LeBron James. The Knicks failed to sign him and were left with an aging Amar'e Stoudemire instead. Also, Perlmutter added, the drafting of Knox was actually the last blow to his fandom that he was willing to endure.

"I was with my buddies during the draft and this was after a season where we were trying to tank and