Rivalry? Quite a stretch...

Not too many great things going on as of late for NYC area sports. Jets have shat the bed two weeks in a row. Giants are injury prone and destined for failure behind the Manning interception curse. The Yanks didn't land their guy in Lee, and Yankee fans are cursing the high heavens to destroy anything Philadelphia.
Mets suck, and quite frankly, hockey sucks.
So that leaves us with the wild world of the NBA. Tonight, the hot-streaked Knicks take on the unforgiving Celtics. Normally, basketball wouldn't be something that I'd write about, but after noticing the onrush of basketball fans in midtown today, I felt obligated.
People are coining this matchup as a "rivalry." Cmon- we have to draw the line somewhere. A rivalry is Yanks/Sox, Jets/Pats, Rangers/Devils- teams that for years have hated one another. Calling the game tonight a rivalry is taking away from the word itself. When the Knicks were good, the Celtics sucked. Since the Celtics have been good, the Knicks have sucked. Its barely a quarter into the season and ESPN is already making this a "marquee matchup."
Marquee?! These are the same Knicks that pay Eddie Curry $15mil/year to stay out of the locker room.

Regardless who wins tonight, and truly, I could care less, please realize that basketball is an 82 game season. One night doesn't make it a rivalry.