[quote name='Zenithian Legend']There's still Sacramento and obviously New York.[/quote]
The Knicks aren't dirty. Well, Nate Robinson has a bit of a mean streak, but that's it.
The Knicks are probably even dirtier than San Antonio, when you factor in that incident against Denver.
The only Knicks in the wrong versus Denver were Nate Robinson, and to a lesser extent, Mardy Collins.
Mardy is tough as nails, and was brought in by Isiah Thomas to make a point; the Knicks were getting blown out yet Denver still had starters in at the end of the game, running up the score, despite the unwritten code of sportsmanship that if one team 'gives up,' generally the winner will accept that instead of showboating.
Well, Isiah brought Mardy in with the unsaid acceptance that he'd make things tough on Denver's starters. He had the hard foul (and it was nothing more, just a hard foul; borderline flagrant-one). JR Smith overreacted, and it should have ended there. Mardy just stood his ground. Then, yeah, Nate came over and started heating things up a bit more, but JR Smith then tackles the guy. Again, Smith overreacted just as badly as Nate, if not moreso. Next thing you know, Carmelo a) pulls down Channing Frye
from behind out of nowhere and then poses over him as if it were a toughguy move, then b) comes out of nowhere and sucker punches Mardy Collins and proceeds to run away (per his Yellow Melo nickname) as Jared Jeffries tries to make things right after Carmelo's bitch-shot.
So the Nuggets thing really is not an example of the Knicks being dirty. If the Knicks are a dirty team because of that, the Nuggets are a filthy team deserving to be booted out of the league. If anything, the Knicks aren't dirty enough; they're soft as a pillow, with only a couple of players who have enough of a mean streak in their bellies to even let it slip out every now and then.