I was a bit too young for the 1970 team but it got my attention and became a fanatic in 1971 at 9 years old. My uncle used to throw me tickets and going to the garden was special. Not just suits used to go! I recall how much fun it was seeing the same people in the seats. Black-White we all just loved that team! Racial tensions were not there as we all just felt the thing that bought us together. The Knicks!

Dancing Harry was cool! Not much music was played, not much noise execpt what was generated in the stands. No fancy scoreboards, just the game. No distracting entertainment.

NY was great then (and still is) but it was my childhood so the knicks, the garden, the "shaft like" theme the team used to start each broadcast on channel 9, superfly Clyde cloths, playing ball and these were my heroes, and winning was great! Jets and Namath in 69', Mets in '69, knicks in 70' and 73', Nets and Dr. J in 74' and'76, Yankees in '77 abnd 78........ It was a great decade to be a sports fan and a kid in NY!

THe knick team was labeled one of the all time smartest and least selfish team! There is a great picture of the ateam all together (willis-earl-clyde-debussure-bradley and Jax) all sitting together. There was no black team, white team, just a balance of men that together did somthing so special, they became great men! That was a wonderful thing back then. Would be now!

The 1990s team with heavy defense and offensively challanged squad was not as much fun to watch. The core team was changing all the time around Ewing and they never became a coehesive unit. Jordan ruled the day but Mason and starks were great energy players but were plagued by bone head emotional issues and would blow up. Our PG were allways challanged. harper was cool but was starting to break down.

Lj, allan and Spree bought more intense approach but spree had issues. Larrys personality make him very likable despite his mounting back problems. I liked the 1999 team better than the 1994 version. Riles is and was over rated. He got a lot out of his players emotionally but we paid a price for those early teams.

For many of you the 1990s were the golden age and maybe its an age thing as to where you were at that time. Free agency has played a role in all sports that makes team unity a hard thing to accomplish. The Giants during the Parcells era were a UNIT! It was lots of fun to see the same players year in and year out. The steroid yankees of the late 1990s were a young unit bought together thru the minors and high energy role players shined along side of them.

Knicks in the championship era were unselfish, and defense was cool! "Hit the open man" was the theme for Red and the ball movmeent was magical!

This is why some of us older guys want to puke at Starburys aura and felt hope with the fundamentally strict Larry Brown bringing an old school theme back to the team.

At least we have our memories and our legends are set in stone.

Dolan can take away the voice from that Era (marv albert) and starphuch us all day long, but he can't take away what Larry Browns idol in Red Holzman had done with those men! The Banners are not his, they are the players and us the FANS!