We have heard all week that Nick 'The Quick' Van Exel and Raef LaFrentz are being discussed as becoming future New York Knicks, and today you expected the same, right?  Well, not according to coach Don Chaney.

After the Knicks lost to the Jazz 92-89 Sunday night Chaney had some interesting words, referring to the team that walked off the floor as the one that would finish out the season.  The Knicks are sitting last in the Atlantic, are neck-deep in trade rumors involving players like Denver's Nick Van Exel and Raef LaFrentz, Phoenix's Stephon Marbury and Golden State's Erick Dampier and Marc Jackson, yet they are staying put?

"At this junction, from what I've seen and heard, it's really tough to make trades at this point," Chaney said. "Not that it couldn't happen, but usually at this point something would have happened by now. There's not a whole lot out there. What you don't want to get into is making quick judgments and quick moves that you're moving players you really don't want to move. We're hurting right now and sometimes that's when you're most vulnerable, when you're wounded."

With the possible exception of Latrell Sprewell, and he doesn't want to go anywhere, the Knicks have very little that any other team would desire.  Allan Houston is overpaid and Marcus Camby is on the injured reserve more than on the court.  Should Sprewell be traded he said he would just continue to enjoy playing basketball.

"If that's the way it happens, you have to deal with it and make the best of the situation where you're at," Sprewell said. "I love playing basketball, regardless of where I'm at. I have an opportunity to do what I love doing, and frankly get paid doing what I love doing. You have to appreciate that, and I do."