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Cookdcokehop
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7/8/2008  2:47 PM
I have not been a Knick fan for as long as most of you guys and have not really experienced the Knicks glory days. I believe it was 1998 when I first really watching the Knicks. I was 11 years old and I just started playing basketball myself. My father was a die hard Patrick Ewing fan (Jamaicans love Patrick Ewing btw) and it seemed the Knicks games were always on. As I got better with my overall bball skills, I became more fond of the NBA (I used to be a fiend for AND1 however). The Knicks games happen to be on my T.V. the most and the more I watched the more I loved the team. I love to watch Sprewell & Houston in action.

With me constantly being dissapointed with this squad my infatuation is diminshing quite rapidly. This year will make a decade of me being a Knick fan and they have only been respectable for 3 out of the 9 years. I question myself on why I still watch. 3 out of 13 might do it for me.
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7/8/2008  2:58 PM
I think most of us became knicks fans during the glorious yrs of the Patrick Ewing era. This is when it all started again on their consistent winning seasons.

I've been fortunate to witness more of the good yrs vs the bad yrs.


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7/8/2008  2:58 PM
Micheal Ray Richardson & Ray Williams.
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7/8/2008  2:58 PM
My dad works at SUNY Purchase where the Knicks used to practice so when I was young I used to go to the Gym and hang around in the early-mid 90s waiting for autographs and doin **** like rebounding for shooting drills... I have some pretty crazy stories... one time Charles Smith bet me $5 on a freethrow shot and i hit it.. he never paid me tho lol.. I also played with Ewings kid mad times... But yea thats how i started
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7/8/2008  3:01 PM
born and raised in brooklyn
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Cookdcokehop
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7/8/2008  3:08 PM
Posted by Elite:

My dad works at SUNY Purchase where the Knicks used to practice so when I was young I used to go to the Gym and hang around in the early-mid 90s waiting for autographs and doin **** like rebounding for shooting drills... I have some pretty crazy stories... one time Charles Smith bet me $5 on a freethrow shot and i hit it.. he never paid me tho lol.. I also played with Ewings kid mad times... But yea thats how i started

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Cookdcokehop
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7/8/2008  3:09 PM
Posted by BRIGGS:

born and raised in brooklyn

I live in the Bronx and you would not believe how many Laker fans are out here. So I don' think its always a territorial thing or else I would be a Yankee fan. Go Mets!
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7/8/2008  3:15 PM
Posted by Cookdcokehop:
Posted by BRIGGS:

born and raised in brooklyn

I live in the Bronx and you would not believe how many Laker fans are out here. So I don' think its always a territorial thing or else I would be a Yankee fan. Go Mets!

I havent lived there in a long time but you must be kidding me or the culture has changed over the last 30 years--there was only 1 type of fan in Brooklyn in the 70s Knicks fans
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7/8/2008  3:18 PM
I became a knicks fan because it was the right and proper thing to do.
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7/8/2008  3:26 PM
Born in New York just in time to really see the Clyde/Earl/Barnett/DeBuscherre/Reed/Bradley/Jackson/Russell/Lucas teams. And if you didn't like them, you really didn't like basketball.
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7/8/2008  3:38 PM
Was born and raised in New York (mostly the Bronx, but I did spend some of my youth in Queens and Harlem.) I picked the Knicks up right around the time Bernard King joined the fold. I was about 8-9 at the time. My dad was a big Sugar ray Richardson fan and he played against Ray Williams in the park and would always talk about them. I dont remember Sugar Ray in a Knicks uni (except highlights).
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7/8/2008  3:52 PM
Born and raised in New York(for the most part). I got into basketball around 1995 but didn't really get into the Knicks till around 1998-99. After the incredible playoff run the Knicks had to get to the Finals, I was pulled in and never looked back. I am now a Knicks fanatic and live and breath Knicks basketball. I have no regrets about the team I root for. I love them and I always will, through the good times and the bad.
Thank you, Rick Brunson.
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7/8/2008  3:55 PM
My mom was/is a huge knick fan back when i was a kid, she was a big fan of Ewing, Hubert Davis, Derek Harper when he came to the Knicks and at the time I was really only 10-12 years old. Naturally she was always watching the games and eventually I started watching them with her, as well as the fact that I started playing basketball myself. My first real Knicks memories is around 1993 against the Bulls and then the Pacers.
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7/8/2008  4:04 PM
Posted by Cookdcokehop:
Posted by BRIGGS:

born and raised in brooklyn

I live in the Bronx and you would not believe how many Laker fans are out here. So I don' think its always a territorial thing or else I would be a Yankee fan. Go Mets!

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7/8/2008  4:06 PM
I emigrated here in 1990 and went to first Knick game within a week, I've been hooked ever since.
"Low Percentage Shots r US, these are our Knicks" "NY KNICKS the cure for basketball fanatic"
JesseDark
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7/8/2008  4:11 PM
Born in NY raised in Harlem during my formative years. The Knicks were all that mattered. I have memories of '73 championship but none really of the '70. All that mattered were Frazier, Monroe, Bradley, Willis & Debusschere.
Bring back dee-fense
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7/8/2008  4:14 PM
i'm younger than some guys here. for me, it was the dunk and the 92 series against the Bulls in general. i was 12 and hooked for life.
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7/8/2008  4:21 PM
I became a knick fan way back in 1946. I remember their first game. They beat the Huskies, 68-66, in Toronto. Neil Cohalan was coach, and the starting lineup consisted of Ossie Schectman, Stan Stutz, Jake Weber, Ralph Kaplowitz, and Leo "Ace" Gottlieb.

Ace had an awesome game. He was New York's high scorer with 12 points.

Man, those were the days.



[Edited by - basketballjones on 07-08-2008 16:22]
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BasketballJones
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7/8/2008  4:25 PM
I also remember the Knicks first trip to the Finals in '51, when they were defeated by the Rochester Royals 79-75. What a heart breaker.
https:// It's not so hard.
JesseDark
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7/8/2008  4:34 PM

I didn't know UCONN used to play pro. Seriously, you have to be the oldest fan here. Congrats.
Posted by BasketballJones:

I became a knick fan way back in 1946. I remember their first game. They beat the Huskies, 68-66, in Toronto. Neil Cohalan was coach, and the starting lineup consisted of Ossie Schectman, Stan Stutz, Jake Weber, Ralph Kaplowitz, and Leo "Ace" Gottlieb.

Ace had an awesome game. He was New York's high scorer with 12 points.

Man, those were the days.



[Edited by - basketballjones on 07-08-2008 16:22]

Bring back dee-fense
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