It's All Over with Knicks' Nate Robinson

Knicks fans idolized Nate Robinson since the day he entered the pro basketball scene. The Knicks stunk for most of this decade so the fans wanted a player to pin their hopes on, and Robinson's style and size attracts those desperate souls.

With that said, everything is in the eye of the beholder.

Robinson can do great things with the ball, but it means nothing when one looks at the baggage he brings to the team.

It's amazing why the Knicks bothered to retain this guy when he was a free agent especially when no team wanted to associate with him.

After driving with a suspended license this past summer and then laughing about it on his Twitter page, Donnie Walsh should have announced his team would sever ties with him. He needed to display his alleged talent and stupidity elsewhere.

Robinson was signed only so he can get fans interested for this season while the Knicks prepare this coming summer for their 2010 pursuit of stars that can help them land to the Eastern Conference Finals.

He is marketable for the folks at Madison Square Garden along with David Lee and Danilo Gallinari.

While fans love him, Robinson's teammates and coaches despise him for his immaturity and his game.

Robinson comes off as a punk when he talks gibberish from the bench not to mention he arrives late to games and at practice. He laughs often at games when the team is losing, and he rarely pays attention to the coaches in timeout.

He fights with his own teammates in the locker room for some reason.

During blowouts, he makes a fool out of himself by laughing at his defender when he scores points in garbage time.

He is in his own bizarre world. It's obvious he does not care much about winning or losing as long as he gets his numbers and be on the highlight reel even when beat writers, his own teammates and players from the other team laugh at him.

This is not the type of player a team should build around.

Everyone loves what he does on the court allegedly, but he is overrated. His size shouldn't fool anyone.

Robinson is streaky when he has the ball, and his defense is terrible. In fact, watching him attempt to play defense is a cry for help.

He does not go to the paint to score. He shoots for jumpers that turns out to be bricks.

Mike D'Antoni loves anyone that can play offense so it's an indictment on Robinson that the coach does not think much of his ability as a basketball player.

The petulant Knick turned his head coach off in the waning weeks of last season when he argued with the refs and everyone that was in his way on the court. The coach did not endorse his player's return once the season was over.

D'Antoni offered Robinson a chance to grow up and start anew again this year, but after awful performances and more stupidity, Robinson rides the pine with DNP-Coach's Decision in the last few games, and odds are he will reside there until Walsh intervenes.

It takes a lot to turn a coach off like D'Antoni. Most coaches tend to be rigid and impatient when players don't get it right away so this does not look good for Robinson.

It's unknown why Knicks fans never grasp this. The chant of "We Want Nate" on Sunday was an example of fans not getting it, and it was disgusting just hearing it.

He offers nothing to this team. There's a reason why the Knicks are terrible, and he is a big part of it. Three of his coaches grew tired of him during his tenure, and for good reason.

D'Antoni deserves commendation for putting Robinson in his place rather than coddling him like Isiah Thomas tried to do.

His attempt to shoot the ball at the Nets basket should be the last straw of Robinson's tenure for good.

If he never grew up for the last three years, there's no way it's happening now.

The guy is content to be a loser on and off the court as long as he gets his paycheck and stats.

His days as a Knick was going to be over anyway once this season wrapped up, but now his tenure could be coming to an end if Walsh can find a team that can take him.

Problem is there is no market for this guy. He does not fit the mold of a playoff team based on what he showed in his NBA resume so the Knicks could be stuck with him for a foreseeable future whether D'Antoni likes it or not.

This will make Knicks zealots happy even if they don't understand what's going on with this troubled player.