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Hamdy Mansour's avatar

The emotional excitement is very peculiar... it’s just a basketball team, right? Yet everything is better! I’m smiling more... my coffee taste better... ppl cut me off in traffic and I don’t mind... I think I lost a few pounds... I don’t care that the jets don’t have a QB... I even think my hair is growing back...

All jokes aside, it’s truly amazing the passion that exists and the emotional connection that can’t be explained. Yet the one word that keeps playing in my mind... the one word that I think about as a mature Knicks fan is “sustainability”.... I want that more anything for this year and beyond!

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Chester Nason(Chetknick)'s avatar

Loving it. I was 21 in The 1970-1971 season a newlywed. I had been a Knicks diehard Knick’s fan for 10 years by then. They were on WOR channel 9. A lot of games weren’t on TV or I worked the 3-11 shift so I listened to Marv Albert on the radio. Marv was magic, his broadcasting was so descriptive it was like watching on TV. I never went to See games in person (no funds for that). Although my father was boyhood friends with Red Holtzman (Brownsville) and would occasionally get tickets thrown his way and go to games after he finished working. He interestingly said Red Holtzman was happy being a scout and not that interested in being a coach. Hey but it was a job, the mentality of people who grew up in the depression I guess. Those teams were physical and had finesse at the same time. Walt Frazier could turn a game around with a crucial steal, it seems, by will. The litigation of the physical game out of basketball was obvious and hurt the Knick’s Teams a lot. Our present day heroes have figured out how to play physical offense basketball. If form holds true the next litigation against the Knicks will be against “Bulldozer Finesse “. Skinny 7’4”” players will rule and we will remember the good old days that are today. Go Knicks!

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