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I hate to drape a cold, wet blanket on the warm and fuzzy hoop story that is Jeremy Lin, but the reality is the New York Knicks are not better than they were a week ago. And despite the emergence of Lin and two superstars sucking up a lot of cap space, Spike Lee and the rest of the New York faithful should not lose sight of this: If the playoffs were to start today, the Knicks would not be there.
In fact, the team is closer to the 1990 Minnesota Vikings than they are the playoffs.
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