Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl

As a Knicks fan I have hope…and  I’m rolling with Baron Davis!  He believes the Knicks will win the championship this season.  Check out what he has to say about it after the jump & let us know what you think…

This isn’t about what the Knicks are now, a .500 team at 18-18. It is about what Davis believes the Knicks can become. A giant leap of faith when you consider the year-and-a-half headstart advantage the Heat have over these Knicks.

“The Heat have an advantage. The Bulls have an advantage. The Orlando Magic have an advantage. … But I am optimistic, and I believe in what we have here in New York City,” Davis says. “And I believe in what we have here for the New York Knicks. … We’re gonna get better.

“We can do it. We can do it.

“And I think that we’ll come out of nowhere, and we’ll do it.”

With the help of a growing bond between team and town.

“I think the Knicks fans are our X-factor,” Davis says. “For me, coming to the Garden before, it was like, ‘Oh, we’re about to come in here, we’re about to kick the Knicks’ [butts], and the fans are gonna be on our side eventually by the end of the day ’cause they’re gonna boo ’em. So imagine if the fans booed the other team, and put pressure on the other team.

“With their energy and their cheering, even if we’re down and playing bad — just like [Wednesday] night [against the Cavaliers] — we weren’t having the best game, but usually we get down 15, the boobirds come out. And the fans stayed with us and stayed with us because now, when they believe in us, we believe, we have more confidence in ourselves. And when they get loud, that just helps us play with more and more energy. …

“I think as deep as this team is, and with the energy of New York, and the crowd — this crowd can take us all the way.”

In a perfect Knicks world, Baronsanity teamed with Linsanity will mean double trouble.

“All the clutter is behind us,” Davis says. “All the mockery of … if we are talented but not capable. … I think we’re behind the whole [Carmelo Anthony]-Jeremy Lin thing. We’re behind the Coach D’Antoni-getting-fired thing. I think the Linsanity stuff is behind us. … And I think all of that brought us together at different stages, and this team is continuing to build and continuing to be together.

“Before I got here, there was talk about a championship, but there was really no … no adversity to go through. And I think that we’ve been through a lot of adversity now. We’re gonna still have our bumps and bruises, but this team is continuing to bond together and support each other and love each other, and that’s what it’s gonna take to win a championship.”

It’s a pipe dream if Amar’e Stoudemire doesn’t regain his explosiveness … if Mike D’Antoni can’t teach chemistry … if there is more Melo drama. … Lots of ifs.

Add the team playing tough enough defense to the list of ifs.

“We will,” Davis says. “We have the talent to get so much better defensively, and we’re working at it. It takes teams to be together three, four years, to develop that camaraderie and that defensive wherewithal and that defensive trust, and here we are trying to mash that into two months.”

How much better will this team be come playoff time?

“We’ll be so much better,” Davis says. “Melo will be so much better. Amar’e will get his legs back and be so much better. Jeremy Lin will settle into learning how to manage the team when he’s out there. I’ll be so much better, I’ll be more athletic. J.R. Smith will be more acclimated. [Iman] Shumpert will have more confidence. [Steve] Novak’s confidence is growing.”

Davis went on about Tyson Chandler and Jared Jeffries and Landry Fields and Josh Harrellson, too.

Davis, the team D.J., has yet to do his thing at a Manhattan club.

“I probably will,” he says. “Once we win the championship.”

WRITTEN BY Steve Serby & FULL STORY HERE