Martin for over 17 years I've followed you and joined the UltimateKnicks.com We've had some sad years and it's almost 50 years since we've had a title.It make you want to think about this. If I had a girlfriend or a wife and things were going bad with the relationship you would end it in a few years. But our relationship with the Knicks we keep on getting abused and used but we keep hanging in there.

Stage 1 - this year is going to be different. 50 wins and 2nd rd of the playoffs

Stage 2 - reality sets in. We’re just not that good, please just play the kids and let’s get a good lottery pick

Stage 3 - fun with tankathon, the draft prospect thread heats up. We put together a win streak at the end of the season when the games don’t matter and drop 2 spots on lottery night.

Stage 4 - with no playoffs, looking forward to summer league. The off-season is so long for us, we are delusionally happy for the Knicks to start playing games again in the preseason. This year is going to be different!

ramtour420 wrote:

Rookie wrote:The 4 stages as a Knicks fan

Stage 1 - this year is going to be different. 50 wins and 2nd rd of the playoffs

Stage 2 - reality sets in. We’re just not that good, please just play the kids and let’s get a good lottery pick

Stage 3 - fun with tankathon, the draft prospect thread heats up. We put together a win streak at the end of the season when the games don’t matter and drop 2 spots on lottery night.

Stage 4 - with no playoffs, looking forward to summer league. The off-season is so long for us, we are delusionally happy for the Knicks to start playing games again in the preseason. This year is going to be different!

Good ones. How about Stage 5 - player X is going to take us to the promised land. Let's just blow all the picks and young prospects to trade for him. Back to Stage 1. Rinse. Repeat.

Hard not to be a NY sports fan growing up in queens. Plus an athlete who played basketball since a little kid outside parks. So I had no choice but to choose the Knicks when someone asked me. Then watching starks guard MJ did it for me. I started to model my game after starks. Defender and streaky shooter.

I was always a fan of or rooting for underdogs because of starks and the Knicks overall. So I guess being a knick fan wasn’t too bad because we always had that underdog label since I remember.

Moving away from queens in HS, I used my connection with the Knicks as a way to hold onto something NY. From HS freshmen in queens (august Martin HS), I moved to NJ, Alabama, Arizona, Massachusetts, Maryland, texas, now back in Maryland (over a 20 yr span).

NY was my NYC connection during all those moves. But it’s nice to see all the different ways we built up this team. Seems like starphucking, as some of you say, wasn’t that bad of an era. I remember complaining that we need to build within, but we kept making these marbury and melo type trades. Tmac and penny. I wish we was smart enough when we had ewing. Should’ve built a better team around him. Probably have a chip right now.

So that’s why I became and as crazy as it is, I’m still a Knicks fan.

franco12 wrote:I started to follow the Knicks in the mid 80s- right before they got Ewing, but right when they were Hubie Brown and not doing exceedingly well. I think I was watching the game Bernard blew out his knee.

UK is the best site. Even if I weren’t a Knick fan, I’d be here for the community.

We started around the same time. I do remember the “Ken the Animal” version followed soon by the Hubie years, which were fun and very respectable. I went to the Garden a lot with a student card getting me half of blue seats (3 bucks!) and then sneaking down front after the half. When Ewing came those were great years but the suits and posers filled the seats and drove up prices.

I was posting on another board which was okay to good but is now simply a hater board. Any positive angle on the Knicks, particularly Randle or Thibs, is shouted down. We have some of that here but far from the majority, as well as a lot of very knowledgeable posters. And a few characters Some are enthusiastic, some negative, many bipolar! But the overall quality is high and no one gets to dominate. Thank Martin and all 🙏🙂

KNicks always. Even though I suffer from BKS.

Battered Knick Syndrome.

Knixkik wrote:I’m 36 and been here since the beginning of UK. I was 15 when I joined. AOL days. I’ve been a Knicks fan since I opened my first pack of cards in 1992 at age 6 and Ewing was the first card in the pack. I had other ties to the Knicks but that solidified it at the youngest age I can remember.

36?! That explains all the "Transformers" references when you first started posting.

Been on and off the board since Martin put out an invite on the old Knicks ESPN board at launch, was also on Knicks4Life. I remember when the site owner put up a fake NY Times trade headline that went viral.

I’m waiting for the day we recapture some of that defensive dominance from the 90’s. Well, as much as today's rules allow.

Our recent W’s have been AWESOME.

And seeing Julius put up Ewing-like numbers, plus assists, warms my heart. I’m currently rooting for him to figure it all out, and become our best player since the big guy.

blkexec wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

Knixkik wrote:I’m 36 and been here since the beginning of UK. I was 15 when I joined. AOL days. I’ve been a Knicks fan since I opened my first pack of cards in 1992 at age 6 and Ewing was the first card in the pack. I had other ties to the Knicks but that solidified it at the youngest age I can remember.

36?! That explains all the "Transformers" references when you first started posting.

Been on and off the board since Martin put out an invite on the old Knicks ESPN board at launch, was also on Knicks4Life. I remember when the site owner put up a fake NY Times trade headline that went viral.

I always wondered who else came from knick4life. And til this day I don’t remember who recommended this site. Or if that person is now on UK.

There are a few more here. Eventually "Maltré" was asking posters to run the site for him, and it went down the tubes. Martin and Andrew offered free tote bags to new posters, and the rest was history.