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The Knicks have been entertaining on most nights, competitive on many of them, at times surprisingly good and at times shockingly inept.

Stephan Marbury, whose comments to the N.Y. Post provided another firestorm for the Knicks to douse, met with the team president Donnie Walsh to discuss a buyout of the guard’s $21.9 million contract.

Danilo Gallinari, the Knicks’ first-round pick, received a cortisone shot in his sore back Thursday afternoon and is being prescribed extended rest as he tries to recover from a bulging disc.

New tests have revealed no significant changes in Danilo Gallinari’s sore back, and the Knicks are sending him to a string of specialists to find an answer.

Gallinari is still bothered by a bulging disk and is unable to show off the dazzling play that prompted the Knicks to make him the sixth pick over all in the N.B.A. draft.

The injury that kept Danilo Gallinari off the court all summer will not keep him out of the Knicks’ training camp when it opens in 12 days, Gallinari’s agent said.

Danilo Gallinari, a multiskilled forward the Knicks selected in the June draft, scored 14 points in his summer league debut on Monday, then landed on the disabled list.

Danilo Gallinari scored 14 points in his N.B.A. Summer League debut Monday, and showed that he is a work in progress.

If Danilo Gallinari had an N.C.A.A. pedigree, an endorsement from *** Vitale and a less-exotic name, he might have been greeted with roses instead of raspberries on Thursday.

The Knicks selected Danilo Gallinari, a 19-year-old, Italian small forward, with the sixth over all selection in the N.B.A draft.