and we're done

Oh and I had an Orlando magic Shaq jersey too and I would clown the knick fans in my elementary school saying how the magic are the better team :lol:

They got back at me when the rockets swept the magic lol
 
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Chicago/Magic fan as a youngin over here :lol:

When your young its much easier to follow a team that is constantly winning unless your father/family follow a specific team. And my father didnt really mess with basketball like that. Me and my brother are like the first ones in our family to really follow Bball like that. And also when your younger I feel like you follow players more. So Jordan/Penny/Shaq were my favorite players back then.

Always liked the Knicks. But the Bulls and Magic gave me more to brag about in elementary school :smh:
 
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My father was a Knicks/Giants/Yankees fan. I had no choice.:lol:

I vaguely remember him quizzing me during games on who's who when I was a young lad.

All I knew was Knicks basketball. Those Sunday games against Chicago on NBC. Man, those were the days.
 
HarlemToTheBronx said:
My father was a Knicks/Giants/Yankees fan. I had no choice.:lol:

I vaguely remember him quizzing me during games on who's who when I was a young lad.

All I knew was Knicks basketball. Those Sunday games against Chicago on NBC. Man, those were the days.
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there was lot of kids in school rocking bulls jerseys tho lol
 
HarlemToTheBronx said:
My father was a Knicks/Giants/Yankees fan. I had no choice.:lol:

I vaguely remember him quizzing me during games on who's who when I was a young lad.

All I knew was Knicks basketball. Those Sunday games against Chicago on NBC. Man, those were the days.
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chancleta to the face for incorrect answers.

Let add some more...

I have an older brother (7 yrs older) and 3 other male cousins. We are all tight and we'd play video games all the time. My brother was a damn nazi when it came to sports games. We divided every league amongst ourselves and we could only use those teams. It didn't matter that two of my cousins lived in valley stream. If I wanted to use one of their teams I had to trade one of mine. In basketball I had:

Suns
Sixers
Sonics
Blazers
Wolves
and the Nets at one point

So there.
 
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been a knicks fan since their shorts were tiny, since the benard king days. my uncle was a die hard clyde fan and got me into the knicks.

also liked that they had the yankee ny on the shorts. mark jackson was my fav and kenny skywalker was my jordan :lol:
 
onewearz said:
been a knicks fan since their shorts were tiny, since the benard king days. my uncle was a die hard clyde fan and got me into the knicks.

also liked that they had the yankee ny on the shorts. mark jackson was my fav and kenny skywalker was my jordan :lol:
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when i was really young and didn't know any better, i had a friend who had a knicks sweater with that yankee logo. I was saying to him "are you a yankee fan or a mets, knicks fan?" :rofl:
 
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My dad was a baseball head so I never really watched/followed basketball extensively until around 2004 (I'm only 19 don't clown me :lol:)

T-mac was my fav player and I was a Rockets fan. I just loved that high volume scoring type of player and T-mac was just :pimp: . Unfortunately the injuries set in. After that Rockets stint I latched onto the Nuggets with Melo being another high volume scorer and JR's chucking goon antics :lol: . Can't lie I was hype when Iverson came.

Once Iverson was traded I decided to start rooting for my home town team. It just felt right. So since then I've been team NYK but I've always liked DEN. I still like them and they are my team out in the west.

PS: I could never get down with the Kobe/Lebron fandom. All of my friends were on their jock and I just couldnt be apart of that.
 
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I had favorite players but I never really rode with a squad. I would watch a few games featuring them (Scottie, Grant, Penny, A.I., T-Mac) and even then I didn't watch as many games then as I do now but my Pops was a Knicks fan so I can still recall plenty of big moments/classic games. I didn't become a true diehard Knicks fan until I was about 12 or so. And that was when the team had truly entered the dark ages (2002 and on).
 
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We used to lower the hoops in the driveway just so we could dunk and do the Shaq pose hanging on the rim.
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we used to use the metal trash cans in the park to jump off and dunk. lay it down and one guy would sit on each side while u jumped off of it and dunked. one day two guys thought it'd be funny to get off right when my boy was midair :smh:

broke both his arms landing, dude had the worst summer ever, moms wiping him and all that ... never did it again :lol:
 
damn, thats terrible lol

when i was in first grade, i use to think the reebok pumps would give me powers to make shots or jump up higher in basketball :lol:

so i would pump them up and make a few shots with confidence LOL

as kids, we think of silly stuff lol

damn Dee Brown lol
 
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pr0phecy718 said:
damn, thats terrible lol

when i was in first grade, i use to think the reebok pumps would give me powers to make shots or jump up higher in basketball :lol:

so i would pump them up and make a few shots with confidence LOL

as kids, we think of silly stuff lol

damn Dee Brown lol
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My group of friends all had pumps. One of our boys came through with some flea market pumps one day. He got clowned so bad. I still have no idea where his parents got them.
 
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Out here in England there has always been minimal NBA coverage really (now has more then ever thankfully :smokin)

Got into the NBA playing the JAM games, Didn't really have a team then as we only got 1 or 2 games here in UK but used to love the Malone \ Stockton partnership at the Jazz so they were my go to team in NBA Jam,
Always watched the league growing up but didn't get alot of coverage and there was no streaming back then so had to just get what I could when it came to watching highlights of games.

Sky Tv here picked up the NBA rights in around 2000 so I got to watch the games alot more, I loved Iverson, Never seen anything like him and his whole hustle mentality made me a big fan of him and what he was doing with the 76ers, Still stayed pretty neutral and didn't have that 1 team.

Roll on around 2003 and I got to watch the games on the regular, the Knicks were starting to be showed quite alot and then because of this I found myself following the Knicks, I loved the atmosphere of the Crowd and the passion they had..
Roll on 2013 and I am 100% Knicks through and through, cant picture the times I wasn't following the Knicks now! Sky TV here show all the big Knicks games and I now stay up until 1am to watch streams from the other games, Which annoys my Girl me staying up all night while she trying to sleep :lol:
 
J.R. shares similarities to former Knicks star Starks
By ZACH BRAZILLER
Last Updated: 1:37 PM, April 14, 2013

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John Starks was thrilled when the Knicks signed J.R. Smith before last season. He figured the enigmatic shooting guard could help his former team.

Soon, elation turned to constant flashbacks, as Smith would begin games bricking jumpers and finish them with game-winning swishes — just like Starks used to do.

“It brought back memories,” the former Knicks great, who now works for the team in alumni relations, told The Post by phone. “You smile at it. I noticed [the similarities] last year, because he’s fearless.”

The two guards — combustible, passionate, explosive, dynamic, fan favorites and full of self-confidence — are eerily similar, not only in their style, but also to the success of their respective teams.

Starks was a key figure to the success of the Patrick Ewing Knicks teams of the 1990s, and Smith has emerged as Carmelo Anthony’s trusty sidekick for a Knicks team that earned its first Atlantic Division title in 19 years — a team some believe can challenge the defending champion Heat in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

“That brings back memories to 1994,” Starks said.

Their career stats are almost interchangeable: Starks 12.5 points per game, Smith 13.2; Starks 34 percent from 3-point range, Smith 36.

Smith and Starks share more than just explosiveness with the ball, they also both have a combustible personality.

Starks once head-butted Pacers star Reggie Miller in the 1994 playoffs and was a symbol of the physical, take-no-prisoners ’90s Knicks.

Smith has a penchant to let his emotions get the best of him as well — and, of course, one of the most memorable instances came against the Pacers. Smith and Indiana’s Lance Stephenson had to be separated at midcourt as their Feb. 20 game went into halftime.

They also racked up technicals at a remarkably similar pace — Smith with 44 in 616 games (one every 14 games) to Starks’ 65 in 866 (one every 13.3 games).

Smith also was involved in a brawl at the Garden while a member of the Nuggets and has had off-the-court issues such as reckless driving and questionable tweets.

“J.R. Smith makes John Starks look sane,” former Knicks coach and ESPN announcer Jeff Van Gundy said. “They both are highly combustible, but Starks off the court was a choir boy.”

Their back stories and skill sets are different. Smith was a first-round pick directly out of high school at St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, Starks was an undrafted free agent out of Oklahoma State who bagged groceries to support himself.

At 6-foot-6, the 27-year-old Smith is an inch taller than Starks, 47, and the superior athlete, the former Knick said. Starks, Van Gundy said, was a better on-ball defender, passer and pick-and-roll player, though Smith has superior range and is a better rebounder.

“The one thing everybody would respect, both teammates and coaching staff, is they come to play every night,” Van Gundy said. “They bring it. Sometimes it may have been misdirected, from a shot selection standpoint, but the passion, intensity, the competitive nature, it’s always there. As a coach, when you can count on that, it’s awesome.”

Just like Starks, Smith has surpassed expectations in New York. Signed to token one-year deals before each of the last two seasons, he nearly was selected to the All-Star Game this year.

“When you take the production versus his contract,” Van Gundy said, “he is one of the great contracts in the NBA and Knicks history.”

Starks said he likes the comparisons.

“I take that as a great compliment,” Starks said. “I’m glad people see a lot of me in J.R.”

Smith is familiar with Starks’ career, though he wasn’t a Knicks fan growing up in New Jersey. When the Knicks and Bulls faced one another, he would be rooting for Michael Jordan. He vividly recalls “The Dunk,” when Starks soared over Jordan and Scottie Pippen for a slam in the 1993 Eastern Conference finals.

“I remember watching that game,” Smith said. “My pops was standing over the top of me talking junk.”

Starks has developed a relationship with Smith. He will approach Smith about problems he had in his day and just reminds him to be aggressive and remain confident, never a problem in his prime.

“They miss three straight, they think they’re going to make the next three,” said Knicks assistant Herb Williams, who played with Starks for four seasons.

Starks was best known for his playoff battles with Jordan and Miller, and unfortunately the team’s near misses in the postseason. Smith playoff legacy will begin soon. Who knows, maybe he will treat the Garden to “The Dunk 2,” over LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.

“Anything can happen when’s he’s out there on the court,” Starks said. “He senses, like the rest of the Knicks, they have the opportunity to do some beautiful things to get to a championships and win it all.”

Additional reporting by Brian Lewis and Marc Berman.

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