With the Mayan-predicted “rough year” of 2012 fast approaching it’s not easy to acknowledge glaring signs of the impending apocalypse, but ladies and gentleman, the New York Knicks are on a 3-game win streak.

In a season in which the previous highest point of hope came when Eddy Curry showed up looking like Eddy Curry’s not so fat twin, Knicks fans finally have a legitimate accomplishment to hang their hats on.  After beating a super-talented Atlanta Hawks team and establishing that they are now better than the Celtics (who lost to the Hawks, it’s called the law of transitive properties, look it up), the Knicks kept their hot streak alive with a win over the Greg Oden-less Blazers at the Garden (some might argue this win is tainted by the weakened Portland squad, but anyone with remote knowledge of Greg Oden’s career knows the only good he’s done since going pro was that ESPN commercial).

And I know what the rest of you detractors are thinking, the meat of this unforeseen competency sandwich was the unimaginably hopeless New Jersey Nets.  Point taken.  The Knicks did use the worst starting team in the history of the NBA to bulk up their win streak, but that’s like judging the fat kid in class for attacking the smelly, poor kid.  Given the circumstances, they did what they had to do.

So rather than finding ways to undermine the accomplishments of the Knicks, let us celebrate them for what they are; Either a Christmas miracle, or a sure indication of the unavoidable doom that lay ahead for us all.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!