Knicks host Warriors at MSG

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03/02/2007 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Golden State Warriors aim to stop a four-game losing streak this evening when they battle the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.

Golden State has lost the first two games of its current five-game road swing, including a 113-83 defeat at the hands of the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday. Kelenna Azubuike scored 23 points, Jason Richardson had 17 and Monta Ellis 16 for the Warriors, who have lost five straight as the visitor and are a dismal 6-23 on the road this season.

Injuries are starting to take their toll on the Warriors, who were without guard Stephen Jackson for the second straight game on Wednesday because of a small fracture in his left big toe.

The Warriors are already without leading scorer Baron Davis (arthroscopic left knee surgery), and in addition to Jackson, forward Matt Barnes (knee) and guard Josh Powell (head) are questionable for tonight's game.

Golden State will visit a pair of division leaders in Washington and Detroit to round out its swing.

New York is also still fighting for a playoff position and has an outside shot at a division title. The Knicks are currently just 2 1/2 games back of New Jersey for the eighth spot in the East, and the third-place squad is also 6 1/2 games behind Toronto for the top spot in the Atlantic Division.

Inconsistency has been hurting the Knicks lately, as the squad had alternated wins and losses over its past 10 games. On Wednesday, New York was bested by the lowly Boston Celtics, 102-94.

Quentin Richardson scored 24 points and pulled down eight rebounds, Stephon Marbury totaled 23 points and dished out six assists, while Jared Jeffries and Eddy Curry added 16 points apiece in the loss.

New York is another team that is seeing injuries begin to pile up. Guard Jamal Crawford is expected to miss the rest of the season due to a stress fracture in his right ankle, while forward David Lee has missed New York's last three games with a high right ankle sprain.

Also, guard Nate Robinson sat out Wednesday's game because of a stomach virus and is questionable for tonight. Guard Steve Francis (right knee tendinitis) is doubtful.

New York is 16-13 as the host this season.

Golden State has won four in a row over the Knicks and four of its last five at New York.

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FOOTBALL BETTING : Crabtree's base deal: six years, $32 million

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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.

And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.

Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.

So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.

Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)

The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.

As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.

The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.

In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.

Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.

And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.

So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.

There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.

So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.

And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.

There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)

Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.

Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.

Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.

So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.

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