ESPN released it annual NBA rankings and of course it ruffled some feathers. The rivalry between the New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets is brewing and making for a great storyline. The Knicks tweaked their roster by adding Metta World Peace and Andrea Bargnani but the real talk of the offseason was the Nets trading for Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry. So naturally ESPN ranked the Nets higher and Knicks guard Raymond Felton wasn’t happy about that. Read more after the jump.
Raymond Felton, like many other fans, watched ESPN this week unveil their “NBA Summer Forecast,” which included a prediction of how the Eastern Conference would stack up next season.
“I’m like, ‘How can y’all even say this?’” Felton told ESPNNewYork.com on Thursday at an event in New York City for his upcoming basketball sneaker. “We made changes and I feel like we got better, and we were the No. 2 team [last season]. We won over 50 games, we won our division, but y’all going to sit here and say that, ‘Just because Brooklyn made some changes, they’ll overpower us just like that, like we have no chance.’ Come on.”
