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orangeblobman
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10/25/2009  9:22 AM
haha, when i throw a clip in my ak i spray from far away. yea, i mean, the brooklyn nets will be cool and i am really tempted by being the new martin but i don't know if i can do it.
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Paladin55
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10/25/2009  9:25 PM
...1968

...41 years

...Probably not, but who knows

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities- C.N. Bovee
Paladin55
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10/25/2009  10:18 PM
...1968

...41 years

...Probably not, but who knows

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities- C.N. Bovee
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10/26/2009  3:41 AM
1985, when ewing was drafted. not seeing this team win is par for the course, though it would be nice for a change. not expecting anything (as normal) this season.

GO TEAM VENTURE!!!!!
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10/26/2009  6:37 AM    LAST EDITED: 10/26/2009  6:38 AM
Playoffs?!....PLAYOFFS!?! err 43-39 of corse playoffs...and practice too.
Bill Simmons on Tyreke Evans "The prototypical 0-guard: Someone who handles the ball all the time, looks for his own shot, gets to the rim at will and operates best if his teammates spread the floor to watch him."
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10/26/2009  8:31 AM
Became a fan in the early 70's listening to the Knicks on the radio with my dad.

I think the Knicks will compete for the playoffs this year. I am not sure if they have enough to make it. The East is pretty strong again this year. I am predicting 39-42 wins.
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10/26/2009  10:59 AM
Redcru wrote:My first "basketball" team was the Georgetown Hoyas...when Ewing came to New York, I became a fan of the Knicks...and it has lasted since.
Best times....early 90s...went to school in NY and lived with a couple of guys from Chicago...there was a large group of us that would get together for every Knick/Bulls game...we didn't always win those games; but, damn, it was a lot of fun.

my boxer shorts are longer than what Ewing has on in that pic

I grew up with baseball and football. Huge Yankee/Giant fan. I knew very little about the NBA. I knew about Magic, Kareem, Bird, Isiah and not many others. Knicks were playing Pistons after Pistons won a title or were one year removed. I remember hearing about the NBA's "bad boys." Except when I tuned in for whatever reason it was the Knicks who were the bad boys. Ewing, Starks, Mark Jackson, Gerald Wilkins, XMan, Mason, Oak and Greg Anthony were the rotation (I think) and I got hooked

"winning is more fun... then fun is fun" -Thibs
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10/26/2009  12:53 PM
1971

went to first game and willis reed gave Neal Walk an elbow and laid the dude out!

Neal Walk was the no. 2 pick from Florida in 1969 by Phoenix. They lost the coin toss to the Bucks who drafted Lou Alcinder! Phx had Connie Hawkins by then. If you don't know about the "Hawk" you need to read up on your NYC hoop history. Dude got hammered during a 1960's betting scandel and was blackballed by the NBA. HE was the first superstar of the ABA.


Been a fan since!

Walk never lived up to his college stats but had a decent career in the NBA and overseas. Just after he retired he woke up one day with a bad back problem and they found a tumor on his spine likley there since birth and after they operated he lost the use of his legs. He went and joined a top wheel chair league soon after in california.
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10/26/2009  2:11 PM
1996 came to the US (NY) and started following them soon. Huge Spreewell fan becuase he was one of the best knicks when I started following.
TKF on Melo ::....he is a punk, a jerk, a self absorbed out of shape, self aggrandizing, unprofessional, volume chucking coach killing playoff loser!!
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10/26/2009  2:23 PM
One of the basketball books I read in my youth was "Foul", which was the story of Connie Hawkins and how he was needlessly blackballed from the league during what should have been his prime years. The Hawk wasn't allowed into the league until he was 27. He has always been one of my all time favorites.
One of the funny quotes in the book (I think) is, that all ball players in the country and the could only come up with the nice Jewish boy to draft after Alcindor.

Nalod wrote:1971

went to first game and willis reed gave Neal Walk an elbow and laid the dude out!

Neal Walk was the no. 2 pick from Florida in 1969 by Phoenix. They lost the coin toss to the Bucks who drafted Lou Alcinder! Phx had Connie Hawkins by then. If you don't know about the "Hawk" you need to read up on your NYC hoop history. Dude got hammered during a 1960's betting scandel and was blackballed by the NBA. HE was the first superstar of the ABA.


Been a fan since!

Walk never lived up to his college stats but had a decent career in the NBA and overseas. Just after he retired he woke up one day with a bad back problem and they found a tumor on his spine likley there since birth and after they operated he lost the use of his legs. He went and joined a top wheel chair league soon after in california.

Bring back dee-fense
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10/26/2009  2:46 PM
@JesseDark thanks for talking about connie hawkins that was an impressive story, i will definitly be shopping for "foul" on amazon today.

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10/26/2009  2:54 PM
I grew up on a farm in upstate NY (born in 1980), and could only watch the NBA on NBC because they didn't have cable up there at the time. If I hear that NBC intro music it still gets me pumped.

I remember first becoming aware of the Knicks when they were getting spanked by Jordan's Bulls, and then the disappointment when Starks blew the finals against Houston, and the outrage from the suspensions after the Miami brawl. Seattle was my guilty pleasure in the Kemp years when NY was playing ugly, but Camby and LJ really made all that change. I was in Switzerland during the Spurs Finals and had to watch a French broadcast in the middle of the night to see it. If Camby had ever gone to a winning team after the Knicks that trade would be synonymous with failure. Teachers would give you a C for Camby on your papers instead of an F. No singular move has ever crippled a franchise more. Since then it has been painful to be a fan to say the least. Not only did we trade away Camby, but we traded away Nene, and not only did we trade Nene, but we haven't had a draft pick since then that even approached Nene's talent.

I pray that 2010 changes things for these Knicks. They seem to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory even without some of the characters like Layden and Isiah removed from the scenario.

Alan Hahn: Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
coolbeans
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10/26/2009  3:07 PM
JohnWallace44 wrote:I grew up on a farm in upstate NY (born in 1980), and could only watch the NBA on NBC because they didn't have cable up there at the time. If I hear that NBC intro music it still gets me pumped.

I remember first becoming aware of the Knicks when they were getting spanked by Jordan's Bulls, and then the disappointment when Starks blew the finals against Houston, and the outrage from the suspensions after the Miami brawl. Seattle was my guilty pleasure in the Kemp years when NY was playing ugly, but Camby and LJ really made all that change. I was in Switzerland during the Spurs Finals and had to watch a French broadcast in the middle of the night to see it. If Camby had ever gone to a winning team after the Knicks that trade would be synonymous with failure. Teachers would give you a C for Camby on your papers instead of an F. No singular move has ever crippled a franchise more. Since then it has been painful to be a fan to say the least. Not only did we trade away Camby, but we traded away Nene, and not only did we trade Nene, but we haven't had a draft pick since then that even approached Nene's talent.

I pray that 2010 changes things for these Knicks. They seem to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory even without some of the characters like Layden and Isiah removed from the scenario.

so you were forced to become a knicks fan-- damn thats like child abuse.

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10/26/2009  3:40 PM
Born in Brooklyn so guess for me an easy choice to root for NY........... Went to Fort Halmigton while Bernard was Knick so again easy to wanna watch........... In 1983 was in a Burger King upstate NY and bumped into a bunch of college Basketball players....... The Georgetown Hoyas who were extremely funny and very friendly.............. Never watched a college game before that day but my first glimpse was of PATRICK!!!!................... Enough said been a Knick fan and not to mention Georgetown fan ever since!!!
KNICKS on the way UP!!!
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10/26/2009  3:56 PM
Jesse,

I read that book like 30 somting years ago!

copy for sale here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0446894281/ref=sr_1_olp_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256586578&sr=1-2

Connies best years was in the NBA as like many players got near 30 the knees started going out.

From Jim O'Brien's 1972-73 Complete Handbook of Pro Basketball:
His move to the basket is unstoppable, his hands are so big and he has such control of the ball . . . Connie isn't consistent, but when he's hot, he's hot, he's hot . . . "He handles the ball like a guard," says Billy Cunningham of the 76ers, once a schoolboy opponent in Brooklyn . . . "He has the biggest hands I've ever seen," said Dave DeBusschere. "He handles a basketball as though it was a baseball. He doesn't run, he floats. Inside, he's one of the best scorers in the game." . . . His humor borders on the ironic. In a questionnaire he answered the following: What were the honors you won in college? with "I won the honor to leave." . . . Hawkins was a man caught in a dilemma not of his own making when the last college scandal broke during his freshman year at Iowa . . . It ended his college career and sent him to the ABL, the Harlem Globetrotters, and the ABA before he brought suit successfully against the NBA and played for the Phoenix Suns. . . Subject of engrossing book by David Wolf called "Foul!" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.). Read it. May be best book on basketball ever written, and there's too much to Hawkins' history to capsulize here . . . When Bill Russell picked all-time all-pro team, The Hawk was on his second-five selection. "If he hadn't got such a bad deal," Russell remarked, "you would mention Hawkins with Baylor and Pettit."
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10/26/2009  11:55 PM
Became a Knicks fan in the early 60's watching them on a little Black and white TV at my cousin's. I loved the action. Richie Guerin used to run the length of the court all the time. However, the Knicks would constantly lose. The team was past its prime years. I don't believe I ever saw the Knicks beat the Celtics until the late 60's but I loved watching the Celtics and Bill Russell play. From them, I learned how basketball was supposed to be played.

Since going away to college, I haven't lived much in the NY metro area, but I've always remained a Knicks fan throughout the good and the bad. Also a Mets fan; Giants; Rangers; and grew to even be a Yankees fan over the years. You'd be surprised how many people from other parts of the country hate the NY teams. This just makes me root for the NY teams even more because no matter where I am, everyone still knows me as a New Yorker, and I'm proud of that.

My favorite games that I saw at MSG were the playoff series between the Knicks and the Baltimore Bullets in spring 1970 (home for spring break). Wonderful, classic matchups - Earl Monroe against Clyde and Wes Unseld against Willis Reed. The Garden was rocking as the Knicks were finally a great team and winning after being so terrible for so many years. I continually dream that this will happen again.

Will the Knicks make the Playoffs???
Every year I have picked the Knicks to finish 8th in the East and make the playoffs. It's no fun otherwise. I can't pick or root against them. But I sure don't put any money down on them making the playoffs.

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10/27/2009  3:26 AM
I became a fan back in 1992 when my dad took me to my first game which was the home opener against the 76ers. This was before Iverson and after all of the hall of famers so this is when they sucked and the Knicks were the best team in town. I was not thrilled about going to the game though because basketball seemed so boring to me then. That all changed that night. I became a die hard Knick fan and a basketball junkie that night. My hero was a tall black dude with flat hair and I later learned that his name was Patrick Ewing. Nothing has changed since.
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10/27/2009  8:24 AM
Playoffs. No. We will hang around for a while before we realize that even though we're 2 games back or so we actually have to play better than the team we are chasing. Which we won't.

How did I become a Knicks fan? Patrick Ewing. I watched Georgetown for the duration of his career, go to watch one day and Ewing isn't there, being young I guess the idea of a college player going pro didn't register, and it was my sister that said "He's on the Knicks, go watch the Knicks." And so I did. Haven't stopped watching since.

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