Luv those Knicks wrote:Parasite was a bad choice of words. A parasite is someone like Marbury in Phoenix, where, once he was gone, the other players got better.
If we're sticking with biological terms, obligate symbiote would probably be the best term.
And yeah, Marbs was a parasite, though Amare's improvement must also be attributed to the natural course of his development as a young player.
I'm inclined to say Mikki Moore, simply because I know first hand from his days in Detroit how completely ineffectual he is without a good distributing point guard to play with.
Put a combination of Chucky Atkins and Damon Jones behind him, and he's utterly worthless.
Give him Kidd, and he passes as a legit NBA player.
