Newsday reported that Knicks president Donnie Walsh isn't interested in signing Allen Iverson, the most intriguing free agent still on the market. The report didn't say why, but I can imagine the reasoning is something along the lines of: He isn't just our kind of guy.

Please.

Full disclosure: I hold Knicks season tickets. Pretty good ones, too. And I've enjoyed taking my kids to the game for more than a decade. Though some games I might have enjoyed a trip to the dentist better.

So I feel I have every right to say: Please sign Iverson! Give him a contract and slip a Knicks jersey on one of the most exciting scorers in the history of the game. (He tweeted this week that the Knicks were one of three teams that might sign him.)

I know all the reasons not to do it. Money. Age. Attitude. Blah. Blah.

Perhaps the biggest is that he was a one-man wrecking ball last season in Detroit, all but getting a head coach fired and sucking the life out of a team that once thought it was good enough to reach the NBA Finals. That's the reason few have called, despite A.I.'s 27.1 career scoring average, a respectable 17.4 last season - before he was exiled by Pistons president Joe Dumars.

But I don't care. These Knicks have no championship delusions. Make him a Knick.

A.I. cannot cause the implosion of a team that will likely miss the playoffs once again. Walsh & Co. haven't done anything this summer to greatly improve a team that finished 32-50, seven games out of the playoffs and 34 games behind top-seeded Cleveland. This remains the Off-Broadway Bunch.

And yet, there I'll be in my ridiculously expensive seats, just like thousands of other longtime sufferers. Why not give is a show? Give us an icon who scores in his sleep.

Make A.I. a Knick.

Sure, Mike D'Antoni's system was entertaining. But it's also porous. On too many nights, I left with the Knicks leading by 16 going into the fourth because I didn't want to see the inevitable comeback. Didn't need that aggravation.

Guys like Wilson Chandler, Al Harrington and David Lee thrived in the system. And there were many nights when Nate Robinson could have run for mayor and won.

But well before the end of the season, the guys were too gassed to put up much of a fight against teams priming for the postseason.

Now, close your eyes and imagine A.I. in that system. He might score fiddy once a week. Even at 34 years old.

Imagine A.I. and Nate on the floor at the same time - a midget backcourt that couldn't cover stick figures but would be the best show in town.

And I don't even want to hear the he-doesn't-play-defense argument, not with this system. Make him a Knick.

And as for him not being our kind of guy, A.I. has not been on the sports/police pages recently like so many of his peers. Michael Vick and Plaxico Burress and Donte' Stallworth, to name just a few, have certainly upped the ante in this area. And Iverson never was the gangsta his rep made him out to be.

I presume the team has a plan for building a contender, one beyond "Waiting for LeBron." Bringing in A.I. for one season wouldn't disrupt that - not if the deal is structured right, which I'm confident Walsh could do.

So c'mon, Donnie, drop the high-and-mighty movement, grab some cash and sign A.I.

At least it'll make my expensive nights a lot more interesting. And practices will no doubt be a hoot.

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