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Cookdcokehop
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7/8/2008  4:34 PM
Posted by BasketballJones:

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.

Got damn how old are you?
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7/8/2008  4:38 PM
Posted by Cookdcokehop:
Posted by BasketballJones:

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.

Got damn how old are you?

LOL.
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7/8/2008  4:40 PM
My dad and my older brother were Knick fans, and I loved bball even as a tiny kid. Was probably a truly hardcore Knick fan by the time I was 8 years old. When Riley took over as coach was when my Knick memories really go back. I learned how to play basketball by imitating Patrick Ewing. When I was growing up I was taller than most kids so that was a good strategy. I think from that time through college (incidentally when the Knicks started sucking) I missed no more than 10 games total.

Words cannot describe how devastated I was post Charles Smith debacle, Houston Finals loss and Ewing finger roll miss.
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7/8/2008  4:54 PM
Posted by JesseDark:

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.

Before there were dancing girls, there was "Dancing Harry"!

For me it was 1971 when I went to my first game. Knicks-Bullets. Knicks were the defending champs. Later that year Earl took clyde a and went on to lose to the Bucks. Next year Earl arrived! They lost to the Lakers but epic battles to get their. THe next year they broke thru again!

I've been waiting and a wanting since then........

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7/8/2008  4:58 PM
Posted by Cookdcokehop:
Posted by BasketballJones:

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.

Got damn how old are you?

Well, I was 75 years old when I firs started following the knicks, so I guess that makes me about 134 years old.
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Cookdcokehop
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7/8/2008  4:58 PM
I have a question to all the older Knick fans...How was it when they one in '73? I know that **** was bananas!!!
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7/8/2008  5:05 PM
Grew up watching the NBA on NBC on the weekends. That theme song is burned into my brain.

Mason was probably my favorite player.
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7/8/2008  5:05 PM
i live in the bahamas,the only teams the local channel would play were the celtics and lakers,for years it just the celtics n lakers.then everybody became jordan fans,not bulls fans but jordan fans the only team that played the bulls hasrd were the knicks,trying to go against the grain i started rooting for the knicks. and havent been able to stop,being one of the few bahamian knicks fans,in 94 and 99 i was a one man parade drove around all night honking my horn flashing my lights got four tickets.
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7/8/2008  5:10 PM
Started watching when Clyde first started playing 1n 1967. Basketball was my 3rd sports interest behind the Jets (had been going to games since the Titans) and Mets. Took a long time to understand how special the Frazier, Reed, Bradley, DeBusschere, Barnett, Lucas, Monroe, Jackson, Meminger, Bibby, Cazzie, Rhiordan, etc. teams were in terms of how they played the game. Along with the Celtic Dynasty teams, the Knicks of those days are the most intelligent team in the history of the sport, and it showed on the court and after they had retired as players. If Reed had never been injured, the team would have won at least 4 championships.

That team has forever spoiled me as a Knicks fan because I'd always compare the teams I was watching later on to them.
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7/8/2008  5:10 PM
Posted by JohnWallace44:

Grew up watching the NBA on NBC on the weekends. That theme song is burned into my brain.

Mason was probably my favorite player.

Funny you say that bc I love this song so much it i smy ringtone
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7/8/2008  5:11 PM
Posted by dacash:

i live in the bahamas,the only teams the local channel would play were the celtics and lakers,for years it just the celtics n lakers.then everybody became jordan fans,not bulls fans but jordan fans the only team that played the bulls hasrd were the knicks,trying to go against the grain i started rooting for the knicks. and havent been able to stop,being one of the few bahamian knicks fans,in 94 and 99 i was a one man parade drove around all night honking my horn flashing my lights got four tickets.

Damn the Bahamas? That's gotta be awesome to live there! I'm surprised they dont televise the Heat.
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7/8/2008  5:11 PM
Posted by Paladin55:

Started watching when Clyde first started playing 1n 1967. Basketball was my 3rd sports interest behind the Jets (had been going to games since the Titans) and Mets. Took a long time to understand how special the Frazier, Reed, Bradley, DeBusschere, Barnett, Lucas, Monroe, Jackson, Meminger, Bibby, Cazzie, Rhiordan, etc. teams were in terms of how they played the game. Along with the Celtic Dynasty teams, the Knicks of those days are the most intelligent team in the history of the sport, and it showed on the court and after they had retired as players. If Reed had never been injured, the team would have won at least 4 championships.

That team has forever spoiled me as a Knicks fan because I'd always compare the teams I was watching later on to them.

Welcome to the board!
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7/8/2008  5:20 PM
First a Lakers fan with Magic and the crew and followed Riles over to Knicksland and stayed.
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7/8/2008  5:21 PM
Posted by Cookdcokehop:
Posted by JohnWallace44:

Grew up watching the NBA on NBC on the weekends. That theme song is burned into my brain.

Mason was probably my favorite player.

Funny you say that bc I love this song so much it i smy ringtone


lol. your friends who hang out with you must hate you.
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7/8/2008  5:34 PM
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7/8/2008  5:45 PM
Pat Riley made me a knicks fan, plus growing up in da islands everyone liked Mike, and the knicks was always bad boys and i like rooting for the bad guy.These last years been brutal but when u look at it a lot of teams go thru this but i know my knicks will rise again
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7/8/2008  5:52 PM
My Dad took me to a Knicks vs. Celtics game when I was 14 - he got the tickets from a friend of his and I was lucky enough to sit in the 7th row.

Been hooked ever since...
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7/8/2008  6:07 PM
I was always into basketball.When I was 10,I turned on the NBA playoffs,where the Knicks played the Raptors and Spreewell was raining threes.That game was awesome.The next day in the newspaper I read "Threewell" and just became addicted.That was the last winning season I saw for the Knicks. I saw Camby get injured and Van Gundy resign.I was like WTF! Whatever,it's a new era and they'll create a new theme song when we go to the finals,one day.
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7/8/2008  6:08 PM
I was growing up in Brooklyn in the '50s. Back then baseball was the biggest sport and with the Dodgers in Brooklyn, I first followed them. But as I began to learn to play basketball, I started watching it too. The players I remember back then were Richie Guerin, Willie Nauls, Nat Sweetwater Clifton and Johnny Green. Guerin was our best player.
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7/8/2008  6:17 PM
damn, posters a lot older than I thought around here.
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