Have We Reached the Nexus of the Universe - The Knicks are good

There's a scene in Seinfeld when Kramer calls Jerry from a payphone at East First Street and First Avenue in the Lower East Side and says he's at the Nexus of the Universe.

After years of losing and in the quagmire with no end in sight, we've sort of reached that point with the Knicks. We knew the Knicks would be better, how could they not be after last year, but open up with six wins in nine games, I don't think we saw that coming.

But that's where they are after Friday's 116-106 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Don't let the score fool you, it wasn't that close, they were up 30 and outscored 52-32 over the final 15 minutes or so.

Regardless of the near-collapse and the soft schedule, a win is a win. If the Knicks are jostling in the playoff race, a 10-point win counts as much as a 30-point rout.

The Knicks haven't opened up this well since 1999 - the last time they made the finals. They haven't sniffed three games over .500 since December 29, 2004 when Stephon Marbury scored 32 points against Minnesota following a pep talk from the former front office executive who shall not be named.

He is gone and Marbury's time as America's highest paid no-show worker seems to be ending sometime soon.

The Knicks have not been four games over .500 since the end of the 2000-01 season. They can get there by beating old "friend" Jason Kidd and giving him a real headache instead of the one he claimed to have last December.