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Report: Knicks' Wilkens resigns
NY Daily News ^ | 1.22.2005 | Frank Isola

Posted on 01/21/2005 10:36:16 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick

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To: Condor51
When MJ was in his first All-Star game, Thomas 'frooze him out' and wouldn't pass him the ball ONCE while they were on the court together.

Was that before or after Jordan kept talking trash about the Pistons during the 3-4 years before their first title.

21 posted on 01/22/2005 9:02:44 AM PST by Dan from Michigan ("I can't name a single accomplishment of Debbie Stabenow." - Rep. Leon Drolet)
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To: NYC GOP Chick
I grew up a Knicks fan. I turned away from them when they drafted Pat Ewing. I hated Georgetown (still do), and Ewing. Ewing never brought NY a championship as expected.

College basketball is the only thing worth watching nowadays.

22 posted on 01/22/2005 9:10:36 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Fraud is the lifeblood of the Democratic Party)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

LOL! Hey, he'd be on your territory. If I ever come to New York, maybe could catch a game and I'll introduce you. I KNOW how much you'd enjoy that!!!!!!


23 posted on 01/22/2005 9:21:53 AM PST by Hildy ( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

Lenny is better off without them.


24 posted on 01/22/2005 9:25:22 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Problem hotline: to cope with PEST press 1, to yell we're all doomed press 2)
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To: Condor51

I'm no fan of Jordan, but he was 1000% right on that one.


25 posted on 01/22/2005 10:06:01 AM PST by NYC GOP Chick (www.Hillary-Watch.org)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I was a second-generation Knicks fan (my dad used to take his kid brother to games at the old Garden) who gave up on them when it turned out that some are rabid Jew-haters -- and management swept it under the rug. Since then, the team has sucked in a major way.


26 posted on 01/22/2005 10:07:18 AM PST by NYC GOP Chick (www.Hillary-Watch.org)
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To: Hildy

Eek!

Seriously though, please do let me know if you're ever heading this way. :)


27 posted on 01/22/2005 10:08:06 AM PST by NYC GOP Chick (www.Hillary-Watch.org)
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To: dubyaismypresident

So is Jeff Van Gundy


28 posted on 01/22/2005 10:08:30 AM PST by NYC GOP Chick (www.Hillary-Watch.org)
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To: hatfieldmccoy

Lenny's no thug and he wasn't one as a player. The league would be a lot better if there were more Lenny Wilkens still around. I don't think all the players are thugs, but the pro game has become awfully ugly lately. I still watch college basketball, but even that great game is not what It used to be.


29 posted on 01/22/2005 10:38:15 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The Knicks suck because they play the game with 12 basketballs. That movie with Whoopie what's her name about the team is basically this years Knicks.

If they learn to play as a team they will win more.


30 posted on 01/22/2005 10:41:22 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (60 votes and the world changes.)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

Definitely!


31 posted on 01/22/2005 11:13:07 AM PST by Hildy ( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

True.


32 posted on 01/22/2005 11:17:16 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Problem hotline: to cope with PEST press 1, to yell we're all doomed press 2)
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To: ServesURight
Thomas ruining the Knicks just like he ruined the CBA.

Agreed. Thomas pretty much purged the team of almost all the players they had he arrived and imported Marbury (at great expense). The results speak for themselves. A TOTAL disaster.

33 posted on 01/22/2005 12:30:58 PM PST by Norman Arbuthnot
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To: Dahoser
I used to like Thomas until he showed his true colors claiming Larry Bird only got attention because he is white. Since then, he's been Idouchea to me.

Actually Dennis Rodman made that statement, before he became a weirdo.

34 posted on 01/23/2005 12:04:58 AM PST by 12 Gauge Mossberg (I Approved This Posting - Paid For By Mossberg, Inc.)
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To: Condor51
Isiah Thomas is punk. Always was, always will be.

Well I wouldn't go that far. He's still one of the greatest guards to ever play the game. But he does have a conniving demeanor, which he tries to hide with that smile.

35 posted on 01/23/2005 12:10:56 AM PST by ServesURight
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To: 12 Gauge Mossberg

Isiah chimed in hence the strained relations between him and Bird to this day.


36 posted on 01/23/2005 3:37:38 AM PST by Dahoser (!Hillary)
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To: ServesURight
Isiah Thomas is punk. Always was, always will be.
*** Well I wouldn't go that far. He's still one of the greatest guards to ever play the game.***

Hmm, OK.
He might be one of the 'greatest' guards (but on that I'll still disagree). But personality wise he's a punk. Take Latrell Sprewell (please) for instance, he can play 'great' BB, but personally he's a punk.

That's the whole problem with the NBA today (IMO), they'll all (90.655%) no class, low class 'punks' now. Isiah was just the first one. And by 'no class', low class', I don't mean growing up poor. That has nothing to do with it. For instance; Charles Barkley grew up poor, so did Karl Malone and they weren't/aren't 'punks'.

But in those 'old day's' they actually played Basketball in the NBA, now its all 'one-on-one', give me the ball, and watch me launch a 30 ft 'clunker'.

37 posted on 01/23/2005 5:06:16 AM PST by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
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