10. To see whether Adam Morrison will flash the same skills he showed in college by sitting on the floor and weeping during close games.

9. Is this the year Mark Cuban finally kicks David Stern in the rascal basket?

8. Eager to see how the Knicks fare after using ProActiv Solution over the off-season. 

7. Wondering whether Scot Pollard has got even creepier.

6. Provides us with something notionally more interesting than a quilting bee.

5. March 3 - Knicks vs. Liberty. This time it's personal. 

4. Because abject boredom is made more tolerable by the blaring strains of Gary Glitter.

3. Our lives are more vacant without Kobe's patented "17-for 68 from the field" nights.

2. Because of the new synthetic balls, NBA will meet its outstanding purchase orders for leather by mandating that each team carry at least one leather player on the roster.

1. The hope that Sebastian Telfair will shoot Kevin Federline.