New York Knickerbockers

Oh my God!!! I didn’t know you Could Unilocal about sports teams!!!
Knicks management is terrible because they give in to their impatient fan base. For some reason, Knicks fans feel they are contenders every year. I grew up catching the tail end of the Walt Frazier years. Now that was a different era.
I endured the 80s when Bernard King was considered a savior. Then I suffered the Ken ‘The Animal’ Bannister and Pat Cummings years.
Bottom line is Knicks don’t know how to draft. Haven’t had a good pick since Ewing.
Phil Jackson is over rated as everything in basketball. He won all those championships because he happened to have two best player in the history of the game at the peak of their careers.

Knicks are having pretty much the worst year ever.
–finishing 17 – 65
–shutting Melo down after the All-​Star Game
–dealing JR Smith & Shumpert for a 2019 pick
–landing 4^th pick, when they should have had the #2 pick.
Phil Jackson is a good coach, not so great president of operations it seems. I look forward to another dismal year next year.

why doesn’t james dolan just go bak to ohio or whever he’s from… he’s a poisonous figure on the new york landscape.
the knicks just minor pawns in all the meglomania and ruin he has wrought.

Man… year after year Knicks!!! shakes fist!!! The pressure is always too much. Theres never a plan for building this team. Just grasping at whatever straws are available.
Hopefully tanking this season will finally bring some talent to this city. Hopefully Melo starts playing defense. Hopefully Phil Jackson gets time to develop his plans. hopefully… hopoefully…hopefully
The one constant though… Jimmy ‘my daddy gave me the knicks’ Dolan. I hate you sir. That is all.

Charles Oakley
Anthony Mason
Buck (for a stint) Williams
Marcus Camby
Xavier X-​Man McDaniel
Charles Smith
Kurt Thomas
…the best Power Forwards, ever.

Why take your kids to Knicks, Nets and Jets games if they’re giving you nothing?
The Knicks are having a terrible season. But be honest, with their talent level, who actually thought they were going to have a good season? But this isn’t going to be one of my regular diatribes about how the Knicks had two NBA All Stars, David Lee, Zach Randolph, a 6^th man of the year, Jamal Crawford and quality bench players or starters like Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari and their general manager Donnie Walsh got rid of all of those guys for basically nothing, no not this time, we will trash Walsh another time for sure.
This past weekend, I took my son Zachary to the Knicks game. At the start of the game, realizing how empty the building was, I decided to see how far I could work my way down toward the floor. After all, as a lifetime season ticket owner and loyal fan, I imagined, I deserved some time close to the players I was so loyal to, if not for myself, for my son – the next generation.
I managed to get almost to the court where an usher, not Usher the rapper, but one of the Garden’s finest security personnel asked me for a ticket and said I couldn’t be there. My response to him was «really there’s no one here, the team is in last place with probably the worst record they’ve ever had in their history and you’re saying I can’t sit here?»
I recall going to an event years ago as a seat holder. It seems to me the Knicks, Nets and Jets should be doing more to attract fans and if that means letting people move to better seats, giving away seats or giving away free food, do it. You want to make your stadium look crowded and using those methods can accomplish this. After all even The Golden Globes has seat fillers.
But my son was more interested in playing with his matchbox cars than watching the game and I should have played with the cars also. The Knicks lost the game by 30. Apparently children are good judges of entertainment levels of events and Zacky gave the Knicks two thumbs down.
If your stadium is completely empty and your losing money every game, doesn’t it make sense to let people move to better seats, give away seats or give away free food? If you give free tickets those people will still buy food and souvenirs and the stadium would make money on that. If I can go to a game and move down, wouldn’t that be more of an incentive to go to another game? If the stadium is giving you free food, wouldn’t you be more apt to buy tickets, especially when the food can cost $ 20 or more? Just a little food for thought.

Been a Knicks fan since I was a kid. Growing up in the city you always wanted to get to Dan Goldstein, Andrew Lipson’s or any other kosher house hold in Riverdale. in 90s Weekend Knick’s games were actually projected onto the Palisades in order not to interfere with the Sabbath, and dude did these kids style you out! with Smacks, Pringles, Crystal Pepsi, mini king Cones, all sorts of goodies.

One of my four teams that I have rooted for ever since I have been rooting for! Came along during the Patrick Ewing era with Johnny Newman, Mark Jackson and them boys. I been through the tough roads of the 90’s Knicks: Mason, Starks, Harper, Smith. We should have got one ring out of that era. Even when Allen Houston, Sprewell came along, the energy of the team was great. I wish I was around to enjoy the glory years when Frazier, Reed, Monroe, Bradley were bringing in championships but when you watch the old footage — you can appreciate the history. The Isiah years were lost but still supported through thick and thin. The Knicks are my Heart. Go NY, Go Ny, Go! Will update this review the day they win that ring that I’m alive.
Grade: A (at heart), B with mind

Oh, the pain.

It truly depends on whether you are an optimistic fan of sports in terms of how one assesses his or her relationship with the New York Knicks as a fan. From an investment point of view, Forbes Magazine lists the Knicks as the most valuable NBA franchise (worth USD$ 1.1 billion). That is not to be taken lightly, yet unlike the Yankees, the value of the Knicks is not positively correlated with the product on the court.
Some of it is bad luck and some of it is poor management. After the glory years in the early 70s, Knicks fans have endured more than 40 years of empty chases at an NBA title. Once-​in-​a-​lifetime players like Jordan, Magic, Bird, Isaiah, and Olajuwon dominated the 80s and 90s. Yet the Knicks were unable to get lucky with any one of them. Bernard King and Patrick Ewing gave Knicks fans hope, but they were ultimately dashed in the playoffs. While fans thought those were hard luck years, at least we can say that we were beaten by the greatest of all time.
The 2000s saw the Knicks make the playoffs only three times. We were saddled with bad coaching (despite their Hall-​of-​Fame credentials with other teams) like D’Antoni, Isaiah Thomas, Lenny Wilkins, and Larry Brown. Taking on bad contracts and washed up all-​stars did not help matters. It truly starts with ownership, but the NBA are filled with bad owners. How many Clayton Bennetts, Mark Cubans, Peter Holts, or Jerry Busses are there really?
Some light did come at the end of the tunnel by the end of the decade with the hiring of GM Donnie Walsh who was as shrewd as they come. Getting the Knicks under the salary cap allowed the team to land Amare, Carmelo, and Chandler. They finally won their first playoff game in more than a decade. The contributions by Walsh should forever be remembered by Knicks fans. Even if we don’t win championships for another fifteen years with the likes of Durant and Lebron running around, we can at least say we have a winning team.
The New York Yankees under George Steinbrenner were able to put a championship caliber team at any cost, and while that is not well-​received by fans and owners in other cities, New York is very spoiled by this luxury. The Knicks, on the other hand, have some of the most amazing fans in the world. Yet, they have been constantly been rewarded with mediocrity and inflated ticket prices that is not commensurate with performance. However, we keep coming back for more. We are loyal fans that stay with the team through the good and mostly the bad.
I only hope that my generation of fans get to witness at least one NBA championship during this lifetime.
Three stars for the team.
Five stars for the fans!

Two words:
JEREMY LIN
that is all

Eh. Okay don’t get me wrong we had fun. I had awesome free seats from a client and there were amazing celebrity sightings etc. The Knicks lost (no shocker there) so it is just frustrating. I don’t think we ever went to a game where they won so we stopped going just in case it was us that was the bad luck charm

Welcome to NY Melo !
The Knicks are back !
Go STAT !

I wasn’t wrong about Jim Dolan, but still — what a difference a half a season makes. How did this happen?
1. Amare is possessed. He was not made better by Steve Nash in Phoenix as much as Steve Nash won 2 MVP’s because Amare plays like a man-​child — like Shawn Kemp in his first few seasons (pre-​Elvis version later in his career).
2. Raymond Felton is outstanding. Not only can he dish, but he can score in bunches. The fact he was hiding in Charlotte and he was thought to be a third or fourth free agent option after the Knicks missed out on all the primadonnas is all forgotten.
3. Landry Fields is about as big a rookie surprise as can be. Steady, unwavering and highly skilled.
You would think the fact that Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari and Fields all basically play the same position would make it impossible to all play, nevertheless start, together, but that is how Mike D’Antoni does it — they just play.
So things are looking up at the Garden, but it is a guarantee that if Jim Dolan still seeks to bring back Isaiah Thomas in the future — it will all turn into rubble with Zeke standing on top of it. For now, welcome to the playoffs again.

why I don’t watch basketball anymore.

When you think about it, NYC may be the mecca of basketball but for most of its history the pro basketball team here has been terrible. Since that last championship in 1973, 20 (I’ll include ’09/​10 already) of the last 38 seasons they’ve had losing records.
When they win and the Gahden comes alive, holy smokers! When they don’t, the fans still can cling onto those memories but why does this team continue to make dumb personnel moves season after season? I mean, can I erase the entire Isiah Thomas era?

Wack, Ima try to keep it short with wack, shouldnt never traded my man Jamal Crawford, but ay they like loosing keep at it!
–From LA
Thanks for Reading

The NY fans are great. They whoop, cheer and clap all third and fourth quarters even though the Knicks were on a 6-​game losing streak when they played the Hornets last Friday. Seeing Chris Paul and Nate Robinson chest bumping was pretty entertaining. And Posey got ejected for throwing the ball at the ref.
Other than that, I found it hard to cheer for a team other than the Warriors. =)
There are five levels of seating so the stadium is pretty massive. Bring your own food b/​c the hot dogs are $ 5.75 and don’t taste good. These two ladies in front of us brought some BBQ chicken from home in a Starbucks bag. The beer is like $ 10 in a Knicks cup. Their concession stands are limited and don’t taste or look good. Bring your own food or go to a Halal tin van afterwards for a pita with lamb (only $ 5! –across the street near Footaction on 34^th).
Catching a taxi after the game will be close to impossible unless you stand in the Disneyland taxi line outside. But we managed to do it!

Dressed like leprechauns last night in green uniforms and as much neon orange accessories as possible, the Knicks lost by about 30 to the Nets. Granted Vince Carter scored 30 points to help lead the Nets to victory and nate Robinson is a midget (shake and bake! lol), but it was more about the Knicks inability to do anything all night long. Correction, after the first 3 minutes of the game. I feel like going to the garden to see the Knicks is like an invitation to go to hell and stand upside down in a pile of shit for the entire length of the game. Its not fun. I’d like to watch a winning team for once. Mets are even worse.

Okay, I’m a basketball fan, not a Knicks fan. But I remember this game like it was yesterday.
It’s 1999. I’m out in Universal City Walk having a few brews with my boys in LA. The Knicks are playing the Pacers in the playoffs. The game is almost over. Indiana is up by 3 with 11 seconds left. All they have to do is play some D and burn out the clock. Charlie Ward inbounds the ball, and it’s tipped. Larry «Grandmama» Johnson catches the ball. Sort of pump fakes Antonio Davis into the air, takes a bump and drops a trey on the Pacers as a delayed whistle blows.
The bar crowd I’m sitting in erupts into cheers. And this is LA, we’re all Laker fans. But who doesn’t love great basketball? LJ hits his free throw completing the 4 point play. Knicks win.
Electrifying.

so let me get this straight: Isiah Thomas was found GUILTY of sexual harassment, by a jury of his peers, yet he gets to continue coaching the NY Knicks!!!
What the hell has he done to my team? The team I grew up rooting for? This is the team that had Walt «Clyde» Frazier. «The Captain» Willis Reed. Bill Bradley. Bernard King. Pa-​Trick Ewing. «the Oak Man» Charles Oakley. «The X-​Man» Xavier McDaniel. Allan Houston. Latrell Sprewell.
Now look at what Isiah has done, this after running the CBA into bankruptcy: the Knicks were under the cap. UNDER THE SALARY CAP!!! And he brought in contracts that not only were not expiring, they just added to the cap.
He brought in two Hall of Fame coaches, Lenny Wilkens and Larry Brown, and ran them out of town. He’s pretty much alienated former players. And he’s under the delusion that the crowd will cheer him come opening night.
Okay, whatever you say, accused sexual harasser.