Posted by K22:

Why is Stern still the head guy, that is what's wrong with the league, it is run by a dictator for life

I was a Sixer fan back in the days you were either a Lakers fan, Celtics fan or a Sixers fan. But I started to watch basketball games and only thing we got in Brooklyn was Knicks games and Nets games back then there was no cable. But Bernard King started to grow on me especially after some of his awesome performances in the playoffs, and who could forget 50-50 in Texas. Once the Knicks got Patrick Ewing it became all about the Knicks still liked the Sixers because of Doctor J. Once he retired didn't care to much for the Sixers.

Posted by Cookdcokehop:

I have a question to all the older Knick fans...How was it when they one in '73? I know that **** was bananas!!!

I was a little kid and it was phenomenal, though being a little kid, I thought it would happen pretty much every year (though they had lost in the finals the year before so I didn't think it would be every year, but most years).

Posted by nyk4ever:

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.

now everybody tries to be heat fans especially since thier champsonship,then this year it was celtics-lakers all over again while i was like wait n see when we get rid of isiah youll see........

"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 Naulls, Nat Sweetwater Clifton and Johnny Green. Guerin was our best player."

BasketballJones - you rule the orange and blue world, but Ira and I are Knicks twin brothers for life.

In 1964 or thereabouts my Dad took me to the old Garden for a Knicks v San Francisco Warriors matinee. We rode the Subway in from Queens, and climbed to the the upper deck seats via the endless stairs. My old man tipped a Garden usher to move a few rows down.

We watched Guy Rodgers feed Wilt Chamberlain while the Knicks, led by Johnny Green mounted a furious comeback in the second half. I'll never forget the loud, deep roar that came from the upper deck.

I was hooked.

(It was the same roar that propelled the Knicks in the late 60s to greatness and the same roar that waits to be unleashed this season) May the powers that be, cut the artificial PA noise so the fans can continue the tradition of raw, intimidating and powerful noise. Knicks fans created the DEE-Fense chant.

Knicks fans.

I attended the final game at the old place against the Phila 76ers with my high school baseball teammate Chris Thorne, who later covered the Knicks for the Newark Star.

you could look it up

Posted by purple012870:

Micheal Ray Richardson & Ray Williams.

CO-SIGN

I started watching the NBA on NBC or CBS in 87-88 at my Uncles House in the Bronx when I was 5-6 years old. Back then the Bad Boy Piston's and Showtime Lakers used to always play on national television. I loved the game and acquired all the rules and concepts of basketball on my own. From there I became a Chicago Bulls fan toting a Starter jacket and matching hat, until they completed their first 3 peat with Paxon hitting the game winning shot in 93. I still remember that series like yesterday. Barkley did all he could. After that I got tired of the Bulls winning and realized I was a Michael Jordan fan NOT a Chicago Bulls fan.

Starting in 93 at age 11 I became a die hard Knicks fan and have been one ever since. I had the priveledge of watching Harper (my favorite), Starks, Ewing, Oak, Mase and company deliver what Knick basketball is all about. Thank goodness I grew up watching those guys because this decade has been the complete opposite. I honestly don't even consider our current players to be Knicks.

As someone mentioned earlier it is in them or in their blood to be a Knick fan and there is no other way. I've lived in Brooklyn my whole life; therefore being a Knick fan is who I am.

When I was in grade school, I played basketball for my church's CYO team. I wasn't obsessed with it by any means, but before the season started, and it was too cold to go outside to play any, I'd try to find any basketball on the t.v. at all. Living in the great state of NY, it was always the Knicks on t.v.

I was didn't become die hard over them until I was 13. For what ever reason, basketball got big for my entire group that year. All my friends started poppin' out those god damn Laker jerseys, and I had to represent the good ol' orange and blue. The only thing I wore even half as much as my Sprewell #8 jersey was my "Fakers - Liar #8" black and white prison stripe jersey.