Posted by misterearl:

(Demetris Nichols makes any Allan Houston for-free fantasy moot)

Martin - Wilson Chandler is taking minutes from someone because Isiah, and The Garden, will learn to crave his versatility.

You can take that to the bank

Posted by djsunyc:

if allan houston comes back and plays for another team, when he's introduced at the garden, he will get booed and it will be quite loud.

the layden era is represented by one and only one thing - h20 and his contract.

Posted by djsunyc:

Posted by COSSUCKS:

Posted by djsunyc:

if allan houston comes back and plays for another team, when he's introduced at the garden, he will get booed and it will be quite loud.

the layden era is represented by one and only one thing - h20 and his contract.

I doubt H20 will be booed but if he is he will be in a long list of great NY athletes that have been booed by some brain dead folks. They cheer guys that do drugs, choke choachs, beat kids but H20 should be booed? Only by maggots

he gets some cheers now but it's mostly boos. he's not a fan favorite at the garden. don't forget he echoed charlie ward's statements about jews.

Posted by Pharzeone:

Posted by djsunyc:

Posted by COSSUCKS:

Posted by djsunyc:

if allan houston comes back and plays for another team, when he's introduced at the garden, he will get booed and it will be quite loud.

the layden era is represented by one and only one thing - h20 and his contract.

I doubt H20 will be booed but if he is he will be in a long list of great NY athletes that have been booed by some brain dead folks. They cheer guys that do drugs, choke choachs, beat kids but H20 should be booed? Only by maggots

he gets some cheers now but it's mostly boos. he's not a fan favorite at the garden. don't forget he echoed charlie ward's statements about jews.

I think some Knick fans like myself expected more from Houston. The $100 million contract only added to his issues. When he arrived, it took him a season just to get use to being a Knick. He was booed at the Garden as well as at the Palace. I remember watching many games early in his Knick career where Starks, Oakley and Ewing would scream at him to just shoot the ball. Houston's personality was not suited for his early part of his career. He seem to find himself after Starks was traded which I think Grunfeld intended to do but with the emergence of Spree as not only an offensive player but also a very good defensive player the question always persisted would the team be better if one of them were gone. Many fans hold Houston responsible as a reason why Spree was traded and his relationship with Dolan. And then there are the Jew statements in the locker room. Other than 1999 first round, he was never really considered a clutch player. Never really lead the Knicks by himself, not until the 2003 season which was a bad record until Layden was fired and went out with his injury.

Posted by sebstar:

Posted by Bippity10:


The anger with Allan is because of the contract and the placement of him as a franchise player. This was management's fault and not Allan Houston's. Do fans really expect him to turn down that contract? Charlie Ward would have accepted it. Howard Eisley would have accepted it. Any player in the NBA would have accepted it, so why hate Allan for not turning it down. It was management's fault for putting the contract together and mislabeling Allan as a star.

Awfully naive. Nobody is "blaming" him, and nobody is saying he shouldnt have signed that contract, but signing such a deal, especially in an arena as public as NY, carries an inordinate amount of responsibility and puts said player on front street. Houston has become a representative of the Layden era and probably for good reason.

Houston obviously had managements ear, and as a result we saw a high concentration of softy, church boy types that had about as much edge as a nerf ball, but packed plenty of bad b-ball. It seemed like a dolan-layden-houston triumvirate of morals through the church prism. What happened to the separation of church and state!!

Innuendo aside, the bottom line is that Houston did not live up to the 156 million we paid him, and its not unreasonable for fans to harbor resentment and disappointment. Now if he comes back and plays for us in an effort to give back and help take us to the next level --- great, but if he has the nerve to suit up for anyone else, then he deserves all the scorn and ridicule NY'ers can muster.

That's crazy....He did not live up to the 156 million. I beg to differ. Houston was not paid the $156 based on his potential. He was paid the 156 based on his past performances. He was paid for the type of player he was (one-demsional, jump shooter..whatever you want to call him). I don't think management was that stupid to believe that BECAUSE of the money he was going to all of a sudden turn into a different player (slasher, defender, etc.). They paid Houston, and by most opionons over-paid, to do what he did in the past and what he continoued to do after his contract - shoot jump shots. If he were to do things differently, defend a little, develop a post-up game, that would have just been the gravy on the top!