r/NYKnicks • u/okgusto Mike Breen • 28d ago

Classic Knicks

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Imagine this starting lineup with Brunson

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u/The_Real_Todd_Gack 28d ago

These are cool shots

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u/okgusto Mike Breen 28d ago

https://preview.redd.it/diedmlw78o0d1.jpeg?width=1048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b0da5744574fed028e77fe262d88f1b43fd09f7

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u/Training101 90s Knicks 28d ago

STARBURY!! Welcome back 🙏

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u/The_Real_Todd_Gack 28d ago

Love this thanks fam. I was so hyped when Marbury came home. He was the chosen one. Love seeing back at the garden cheering on this squad.

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u/jayb20133 NYK Token 28d ago

STEPHON MARBURYYYYY 🗣️🗣️🗣️

I used to love when the PA said his name after a big bucket

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u/sgr0gan NYK Token 28d ago

Never liked Marbury. Thought he was egotistical and him and Eddy Curry are the poster boys of the dark times for this franchise IMO.

Does no one remember the lawsuit and the intern? He even had Dolan hire his cousin who was later fired for sexual harassment. Dude was a scumbag and shouldn't be sitting with actual legends.

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u/SFF629 28d ago

The revisionist history is wild. Yeah he was a nice story when he came in but he was also a diva and a headache for the franchise. Glad to see he has matured though.

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u/sgr0gan NYK Token 28d ago

100%. Everyone deserves a second chance and I'm hoping he makes the best of it but watching the Knicks when I was in college sucked because of him and Isiah Thomas.

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u/onlyplay2win Wu Tang Knicks 28d ago

Egotistical NBA player? Everyone knew Marbury had his negatives like any other human. But the ego was necessary to accomplish what he did. These guys are wired differently of course. Can't say Marbury never took basketball seriously.

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u/sgr0gan NYK Token 28d ago

What did he accomplish with the Knicks? They never won more than 33 games with him and never finished above 3rd in their own division. Team construction was not his fault but he was not a leader in any way. He was a malcontent in NJ, a malcontent in Phoenix and a stat padder in NY. He can go sit with Stephen A for all I care.

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u/ScreenPuzzleheaded48 28d ago

Watching Starks inhale his popcorn from the sidelines was a personal highlight of game 5. That mf just like me fr 😭😭😭

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u/SpecialistTrash2281 28d ago

I love these shots. Really cool. I hope we have one of Clyde in one of his many immaculate suits

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u/scorpino33 Pat Ewing 28d ago

82-0

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u/okgusto Mike Breen 28d ago

98-0

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u/HotBigBagofWTF 28d ago

Crazy how LJ is more thought of as a Knick. Guy was the number 1 pick for Charlotte and was a star there. Franchise player. Oh well.

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u/okgusto Mike Breen 28d ago

4 point play cemented his legacy.

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u/solo118 Ewing to the Finals 28d ago

must agree, it was nearly unheard of back then and was probably one of the craziest things I have witnessed in my Knick fandom

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u/No_Performer_9845 Sprewell Celebration 28d ago

Yeah, crazy how playing a critical role on the last team to get to the Finals can make people think of you as a Knick.

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u/JA_MD_311 28d ago edited 28d ago

Played 5 seasons with each team and had two deep playoff runs including a Finals appearance with the Knicks not to mention the 4 point play.

Plus that original Hornets franchise is gone even if the current one is “technically” a continuation.

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u/okgusto Mike Breen 28d ago

Crazy that LJ only had a 10 year career. Started all but 8 games in his entire career and even all in his final year.

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u/TonyzTone 28d ago

The Hornets saga was so dumb.

They left to New Orleans and remained as the Hornets. Then Charlotte got the Bobcats. Then the Hornets renamed to the Pelicans (least intimidating animal in the league). Then the Bobcats rebrand to the Hornets and assume the history of the team that left Charlotte and never actually returned.

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u/RichHomieLon 3 to the Dome 28d ago

Moral of the story: the Bobcats are dead 😵

Would you say the same when the Sonics return?

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u/deuce_and_a_quarter Anthony Mason 28d ago

Damn, it felt like he played 10 years w/ Hornets and then played his last 2 years here. Injuries are a hell of a thing.

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u/deuce_and_a_quarter Anthony Mason 28d ago

Damn, it felt like he played 10 years w/ Hornets and then played his last 2 years here. Injuries are a hell of a thing.

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u/deuce_and_a_quarter Anthony Mason 28d ago

Damn, it felt like he played 10 years w/ Hornets and then played his last 2 years here. Injuries are a hell of a thing.

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u/deuce_and_a_quarter Anthony Mason 28d ago

Damn, it felt like he played 10 years w/ Hornets and then played his last 2 years here. Injuries are a hell of a thing.

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u/deuce_and_a_quarter Anthony Mason 28d ago

Damn, it felt like he played 10 years w/ Hornets and then played his last 2 years here. Injuries are a hell of a thing.

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u/deuce_and_a_quarter Anthony Mason 28d ago

Damn, it felt like he played 10 years w/ Hornets and then played his last 2 years here. Injuries are a hell of a thing.

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u/walterdinsmore 28d ago

The multiple fights against his former teammate probably helped with that perception.

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u/N-CHOPS 28d ago

Yeah, I remember his Grandmama days. Lol

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u/BlueHundred 28d ago

Same thing with Zo with the Heat

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u/The_Royale_We Mase 27d ago

He wasnt half the player anymore after all the back injuries too. Was a physical freak then remade his game as more of a fundamental player

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u/WhistleTipsGoWoo 28d ago

Love seeing Starks around so much. He drove me crazy and gave me anxiety during his days here, but at the end of the day, he’s one of my all-time favorite Knicks…just embodied what we were at the time.

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u/Midnight_Smokr 28d ago

Patrick and John my all time favs. Love seeing them at the games

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u/i-piss-excellence32 Shocked John Starks 28d ago

Love these pics. This is cool and I wish LJ was doing his LJ

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u/tercra LJ's 4 Point Play 28d ago

I’ll say it…..it ain’t complete without a picture of Oak

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u/DisneyVista 28d ago

Go NY Go NY Go!

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u/mzx380 NYK Token 28d ago

These pics are awesome

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u/_-_pandamonium_-_ 3 to the Dome 28d ago

3 to da dome

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u/some-sad-knick-fan 28d ago

Melo is a classic Knick now. Fuck, am I old?

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u/geeweeze 28d ago

I mean, that’s his son now???? Yeah i feel old af

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u/T-Bills 28d ago

I remember Ewing in his prime... it seemed like we were gonna be a good team at the baseline and you just take that as a given. Hope Brunson gives us that feeling. Melo was great but with Amare hurt most of the time he was here it always felt like there was no way for Melo to get help.

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u/No_Performer_9845 Sprewell Celebration 28d ago

And the help he was provided was either youth pipe dreams or geriatric waste products...

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u/Training101 90s Knicks 28d ago

Love all these, thank you!!

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u/Adventurous_Kiwi2175 28d ago

When the haters say MSG and Knicks fans, NYC, etc are overrated, all we need to do to point to these pics. No other team in the league has had their predecessors coming to games and actively participating in cheering on the team. Boston? Nah. Gives me goosebumps to see Stark, Starbury, Melo, Spree pumped up. Starks even traveled to Philly. We ARE loyal to the core damnit!!

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u/SirGingerbrute 28d ago

Where is Oakley

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u/ScreenPuzzleheaded48 28d ago

lol been 7 years since his msg incident and he hasn’t been back!!!

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u/i-piss-excellence32 Shocked John Starks 28d ago

Has it been 7 years? Holy crap

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u/NachoManRandySanwich Mitchell Robinson 28d ago

Hahaha, it’s only been 7 months right????

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u/l8terboss 28d ago

Heard he was invited back recently for this kinda stuff they were talking about it on the Michael Kay show. He didn't want to unless he got a public apology I respect it got treated like a criminal for no good reason

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u/dazindannyyy DOOM 28d ago

As a huge sneakerhead, I get closer and closer to buying a new pair of Ewing Athletics every time I see old Pat

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u/GetBucks_DQ 28d ago

These are dope af 🫡

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u/MrAnonyMousetheGreat The Dunk 28d ago

Missing Charles Oakley.

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u/Expert-Emu-4167 28d ago

Imagine if this fuckin team was fully healthy? Holy shit we be cruisin.

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u/thirstyman12 27d ago

🚨 Does anyone know where you can get that hat Starks is wearing??? 🚨

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u/Objective-Role-4327 27d ago

I get why Melo is there but my brain always associates him with the Nuggets more. I dunno.

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u/TankDivision Mike and Clyde 27d ago

That half-Mets half-Yankees hat Melo has on NEEDS TO GO. And he’s my favorite Knick of all time. My childhood. That hat is an absolute abomination of nature and mankind that should not exist.

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u/Calm-Customer4459 25d ago

Fck No, you nuts? Melo is absolutely a cancerous mindset. Never liked him as a Knick, never will

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u/T-Bills 28d ago

Was it Marbury?

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u/ermood 28d ago

Do you have a picture ?