He was drafted by us (thank youn Isiah) and was a favored son of the city.

I miss David Lee.

misterearl wrote:Don't care what anyone thinks. If David Lee is good enough to contribute for a team that is in the Western Conference Finals, he is good enough to play for a lottery team.

He was drafted by us (thank youn Isiah) and was a favored son of the city.

I miss David Lee.

David Lee was a great guy, unselfish player and one of the best rebounders in recent Knicks history. But he didn't play a lick off defense his entire career before he embed up on the Spurs. Credit Pop's coaching and Spurs veteran leadership to demand that from him.

Kemet wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:

misterearl wrote:Don't care what anyone thinks. If David Lee is good enough to contribute for a team that is in the Western Conference Finals, he is good enough to play for a lottery team.

He was drafted by us (thank youn Isiah) and was a favored son of the city.

I miss David Lee.

David Lee was a great guy, unselfish player and one of the best rebounders in recent Knicks history. But he didn't play a lick off defense his entire career before he embed up on the Spurs. Credit Pop's coaching and Spurs veteran leadership to demand that from him.

David Lee rookie season performance shouted career Knick player .. Walsh sold us out giving away Knicks all-around double-double PF David Lee for GS Warriors garbage contracts.
What i liked most bout Lee were his great passing n high IQ of teammates strong/weak areas

David Lee was a free agent and we wanted Amare. The trade got David Lee paid as well. Walsh took care of him.
I was a big david Lee fan and the kid was great. Walsh moved him to clear cap space and there was a hope of Lebron at that time.
Timeline will tell you the story.

Walsh signing $100 million dollar deals that sucked was never a part of walsh's repertoire in Indy. You think Walsh had to go to Dolan and some how sell him on the idea? Or Dolan instructed his employee?

You tell me?

Maybe if he got drafted by another team, he would have had a lot more of a fruitful career.... and he's had a very fruitful career as is. He should have been a better defender.

newyorknewyork wrote:I was thinking about this last week. Lee should have been a career Knick. We haven't had one since Ward.

It's a shame. He was supposed to be a life-long Knick. He's been an all-star on both coasts and is an NBA champ. He's put together a nice career.

jrodmc wrote:Funny, Melo gets destroyed here nearly every millisecond for not playing defense, but the faithful throngs will pine and pull pud over an empty double double machine (when he was here) who they admit (like in Knickland defense is some sort of afterthought) couldn't guard them. Interesting.

Yeah, David Lee, the lifelong Knick making sure his number one priority is making sure he's absolutely never in the lane for a posterization camera angle.

If only we had kept Nazr Mohammed. Heard he got a ring too.

Pretty much sums it up. D'Antoni, of all people would bench Lee in the 4th because of his lack of defense, D'Antoni! Never felt Lee's lack of defense was anything but calculated. Got him paid, cant blame him for that. But by the time he left NY, I didnt think much of him as a player. Really not that sentimental about the David Lee years, or the Nate Robinson years. Wasted talent.

Kemet wrote:Walsh dig his own hole in getting fired ..

To be fair to Walsh, several NBA teams had marching orders from their owners to clear massive cap space to try to sign LeBron James.

Charles Barkley actually came out and criticized LBJ, saying if you knew you wanted to go to Miami, just say so, do it fast, and not let all these other teams gut themselves to think they had a chance.

LBJ is one of the biggest idiots in sports history, and if not for Nike deciding what gets said about him, it would be more openly discussed in the sports media. The league actually went to war and changed the CBA over LBJ and his "decision" and the fallout.

King James, being the attention whore that he is, wore a NYY hat in some interview or at some game, knowing it would fuel speculation that he would go to the Knicks.

The Knicks thought they had a chance but did not. Ever see a hot girl string a long a bunch of weak willed and loser dudes who spend money and time and attention without understanding she is just playing a game with them? They are useful for free stuff and compliments and someone to cry on and drive her to the airport, but they are never getting in her pants.

That was the Knicks. Some rimmed glasses wearing Comic Con dude taking the time to stop playing World Of Warcraft in his grandparents basement to make a mixtape for some chick who only sees him as good enough to wash her car while Chad Thundercock is railing her from behind.

Not sure I can blame Walsh here, he had marching orders, he did what he was told.

TripleThreat wrote:

Kemet wrote:Walsh dig his own hole in getting fired ..

To be fair to Walsh, several NBA teams had marching orders from their owners to clear massive cap space to try to sign LeBron James.

Charles Barkley actually came out and criticized LBJ, saying if you knew you wanted to go to Miami, just say so, do it fast, and not let all these other teams gut themselves to think they had a chance.

LBJ is one of the biggest idiots in sports history, and if not for Nike deciding what gets said about him, it would be more openly discussed in the sports media. The league actually went to war and changed the CBA over LBJ and his "decision" and the fallout.

King James, being the attention whore that he is, wore a NYY hat in some interview or at some game, knowing it would fuel speculation that he would go to the Knicks.

The Knicks thought they had a chance but did not. Ever see a hot girl string a long a bunch of weak willed and loser dudes who spend money and time and attention without understanding she is just playing a game with them? They are useful for free stuff and compliments and someone to cry on and drive her to the airport, but they are never getting in her pants.

That was the Knicks. Some rimmed glasses wearing Comic Con dude taking the time to stop playing World Of Warcraft in his grandparents basement to make a mixtape for some chick who only sees him as good enough to wash her car while Chad Thundercock is railing her from behind.

Not sure I can blame Walsh here, he had marching orders, he did what he was told.

jrodmc wrote:Funny, Melo gets destroyed here nearly every millisecond for not playing defense, but the faithful throngs will pine and pull pud over an empty double double machine (when he was here) who they admit (like in Knickland defense is some sort of afterthought) couldn't guard them. Interesting.

Yeah, David Lee, the lifelong Knick making sure his number one priority is making sure he's absolutely never in the lane for a posterization camera angle.

If only we had kept Nazr Mohammed. Heard he got a ring too.