Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: Center Luc Longley retires. The Knicks get a salary-cap exception that comes fully equipped with a ticking clock. The exception expires before New York can do anything with it.

Power forward Larry Johnson retires. The Knicks think they will get another salary-cap exception. New York is wrong, as the league explains the timing of Johnson's decision precludes such a possibility.

Marcus Camby comes down with the dreaded plantar fasciaitis, the foot ailment that last season left Glen Rice with all the mobility of Fred Sanford.

Hey, somebody shrunk the Knicks!

Unless New York can pull off a trade (for something more than Adonal Foyle, puh-leeze), the Knicks' season could come down to Camby's left foot.