“This Knicks team makes me enjoy watching basketball again.
Confidence and camaraderie personified.”

-Earl Monroe

He ain’t lyin.’

“... the Knicks—the Knicks!—are a reliably refreshing and invigorating watch: a collection of reclaimed talents and improving youngsters that plays smart, hard, physical, and disciplined basketball.

This Knicks team isn’t great. It’s not a juggernaut on par with a superteam like the Nets, Clippers, or Lakers. But a team doesn’t have to be great to be special. It just has to have something about it—something ineffable but undeniable—that sparks joy. For some teams, it’s a style of play that evokes and epitomizes the elegance of a beautiful game. For this one, it’s the unwavering focus, concentration, intensity: an eagerness to fight in a phone booth, a willingness to eat a haymaker if it means landing one in return.

With every hardscrabble performance and borderline unbelievable win, this Knicks team is revealing itself as that kind of special—the kind that connects with you, and that makes you want to connect with it. Teams like that are rare, especially for this franchise, and you’d better celebrate them while they’re here. It’s spring—a time of renewal, teeming with possibility. And all around—improbably, finally—walls are tumbling down in New York City..”

-Dan Devine, The Ringer

misterearl wrote:Cloud Nine

“This Knicks team makes me enjoy watching basketball again.
Confidence and camaraderie personified.”

-Earl Monroe

He ain’t lyin.’

“... the Knicks—the Knicks!—are a reliably refreshing and invigorating watch: a collection of reclaimed talents and improving youngsters that plays smart, hard, physical, and disciplined basketball.

This Knicks team isn’t great. It’s not a juggernaut on par with a superteam like the Nets, Clippers, or Lakers. But a team doesn’t have to be great to be special. It just has to have something about it—something ineffable but undeniable—that sparks joy. For some teams, it’s a style of play that evokes and epitomizes the elegance of a beautiful game. For this one, it’s the unwavering focus, concentration, intensity: an eagerness to fight in a phone booth, a willingness to eat a haymaker if it means landing one in return.

With every hardscrabble performance and borderline unbelievable win, this Knicks team is revealing itself as that kind of special—the kind that connects with you, and that makes you want to connect with it. Teams like that are rare, especially for this franchise, and you’d better celebrate them while they’re here. It’s spring—a time of renewal, teeming with possibility. And all around—improbably, finally—walls are tumbling down in New York City..”

-Dan Devine, The Ringer

Nice read there. Even though I don’t really expect it, have that feeling that an upset is always a possibility.

Nalod wrote:The “Hateful” national media has the knicks as darling of the league for now.

It’s hard not to root for this team. And Julius is such a sincere, hardworking, likeable guy.