I have to approve of the Knicks scooping up Vin Baker; Baker has mostly played well thus far this season, and unlike the Celtics (who undoubtedly will miss Baker but couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get out from under his contract when he backslid on his treatment for alcoholism), the Knicks presumably didn’t sign Baker to an expensive long-term contract. In a league where free talent is a rarity, you have to take the breaks as they come.