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King’s ransom?

When you want to use a king’s ransom, therefore, remember to use it in situations where the amount involved seems exorbitant to the point of irrational. If for example, you buy a house that costs you seven or eight years worth of work, as the case is in some Western countries then it’s not perhaps unreasonable. If you pay your lifetime’s worth of salary plus that of your parents’ combined, as is the case in some Chinese cities, then it is a king’s ransom.

Okay?

All right, here are media examples of king’s ransom:

1. Mike D’Antoni spent the summer pouring over game tapes of the Knicks’ 23-win season last year, a task no one would wish on his worst enemy.

The fact that the Knicks’ new coach isn't already working on an exit strategy and that he still intends to show up for work on Tuesday when training camp opens at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs is an encouraging sign. But who’s to say there haven’t been moments of self-doubt for the former coach of the year.

When D’Antoni was asked Friday if, during the Olympics in Beijing, his mind wandered to the job that awaits him in New York, he replied: “Yeah, you mean when I was on top of the Great Wall ready to jump off?”

D’Antoni’s decision to leave Steve Nash for Stephon Marbury and Amare Stoudemire for Eddy Curry was made easier by the lucrative contract he received to become the Knicks’ fourth coach in five seasons. Lenny Wilkens, Larry Brown and Isiah Thomas also were paid a king’s ransom to revive the Knicks and none produced so much as a .500 record.