**Official '11 NYK LOCKOUT thread*** lockout over

[duba169]

you would be surprised. go on realgm there are plenty of people who want eddy curry getting minutes.

you would also be surprised at the number of isiah supporters out there

 

[Mister Meaner]

Felton is Grimace cuz he's always doing that face after a layup or something.

 

[ehh]

http://nba-point-forward.si.com/2010/12/07/knicks-on-pace-for-playoffs-continued-success/?eref=sihp
SI: Are The Knicks For Real?

 

[the gr8]

Originally Posted by DubA169

you would be surprised. go on realgm there are plenty of people who want eddy curry getting minutes.

you would also be surprised at the number of isiah supporters out there

its +!!# like this makes me realize why i just use NT

 

[duba169]

Bill Simmons "I have a little secret for you. Carmelo is Coming here"

He's very confident and says we will probably get him february. @33 min mark.
http://espn.go.com/espnra...AM&id=5896930&autoplay=1

 

[losalmighty]

Originally Posted by DubA169

you would be surprised. go on realgm there are plenty of people who want eddy curry getting minutes.

you would also be surprised at the number of isiah supporters out there

But how many of those "people" are just Zeke and Curry with multiple SN's?
  

 

[sircharles2ol3]

Originally Posted by LosALMIGHTY

Originally Posted by DubA169

you would be surprised. go on realgm there are plenty of people who want eddy curry getting minutes.

you would also be surprised at the number of isiah supporters out there

But how many of those "people" are just Zeke and Curry with multiple SN's?
  

 

[yeeupp]

Originally Posted by THE GR8

Originally Posted by YEEUPP

Originally Posted by xbiker47

Originally Posted by DubA169

we need a center more than a pg

turiaf-the flying Frenchman?


don't forget eddy curry nicknames...

cheeseburger Eddy

Eddy The Great

Lol no one else caught that

 

[yeeupp]

[h2]Knicks More Concerned With Acquiring Big Than Backup PG[/h2]
Dec 07, 2010 12:16 PM EST

With December 15 and the NBA's trade season just around the corner, Alan Hahn reports that the Knicks are more interested in acquiring another big man than finding a guard to spell Raymond Felton.

"f you talk with anyone inside the Knicks braintrust ... they'll tell you the team's putting more emphasis on looking for size to bolster the front line more than they're in the market for a backup point guard," writes Hahn.

Turiaf's sore left knee is a concern and the Knicks want to preserve the health and conditioning of Amar'e Stoudemire.

[h2]Walsh High On Houston, Knicks' New Assistant GM[/h2]
Dec 07, 2010 4:23 PM EST

Former Knicks guard Allan Houston became the team's assistant general manager recently and appears to remain in line to one day replace top executive Donnie Walsh.

Houston was recently promoted to assistant general manager when he signed a new two-year contract to remain in New York's front office.

"It goes back to what I said when I first gave him the job; I think he's a great candidate to become a GM someday," Walsh told Newsday.

Walsh has one year left on his contract, plus a team option for 2011-12 that must be picked up in April.http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap/#ixzz17UcnwU3U

 

[pr0phecy718]

[h1]Stoudemire's start among the best in Knicks history[/h1]
Knicks Blog

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By MARK HALE
There have been just four Knicks players who have finished a season with a better scoring average than Amar'e Stoudemire has delivered in the first 22 games.
Stoudemire, the 6-foot-10, $100 million man, has been a star since coming aboard this summer and has been the leading factor in the Knicks' 13-9 start. The Knicks head into tonight's matchup with the Raptors at the Garden winners of five straight and 10 of 11.

Stoudemire, the two-time reigning Eastern Conference Player of the Week, will try to hit the 30-point plateau tonight for a sixth straight game, which just one Knick has done. Willie Naulls once poured in 30 in seven straight, a club record set in 1962. Stoudemire is the first to do it in five consecutive games since Stephon Marbury in 2005.


Stoudemire is averaging 25.3 points per game, which would be the highest scoring average by a Knick since Patrick Ewing racked up 26.6 points per game in the 1990-91 season. Only Ewing (who also averaged 28.6 in 1989-90), Richie Guerin (29.5 in 1961-62), Bernard King (26.3 in 1983-84 and 32.9 in 1984-85) and Bob McAdoo (26.7 in 1976-77, 26.5 in 1977-78 and 26.9 in 1978-79) ever averaged more than Stoudemire.

"The guy's terrific," Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said.

Stoudemire, nicknamed STAT, entered last night with just two players ahead of him in the scoring race, the Thunder's Kevin Durant (27.4) and the Lakers' Kobe Bryant (26.5). Stoudemire's bidding to become the second Knick ever to win the scoring title (King's 32.9 ppg took home the honors in '84-85.) Stoudemire, 28, said he heard a couple of MVP chants during Monday's 121-114 win over the Timberwolves, though he downplayed what that meant.

"Fans are very excited about how the season's going," he said. "We're playing well."

Stoudemire's first 22 games is comparable with the opening 22 games of Knicks legends in past seasons.

Stoudemire's averaging 25.3 points, 8.9 rebounds, 1.9 blocks and is shooting 53 percent. In King's 1984-85 season, he averaged 31.9 ppg in the Knicks' first 22 games, shooting 52 percent. In 1989-90, Ewing posted 29.6 ppg, 10.6 rpg, 3.99 bpg and 57 percent shooting in the Knicks' opening 22.


In Willis Reed's 1969-70 MVP season, he averaged 23.9 ppg, 13.6 rpg and 53 percent shooting.

Stoudemire's on pace for the second-best scoring average of his career, trailing just the 26.0 ppg he managed in 2004-05 with the Suns.

D'Antoni, who coached Stoudemire that season, said he has "always been good," but has excelled as the Knicks' main man.

"Now, his ability to make big shots now, we're relying more on him," D'Antoni said. "But before it was kind of, Steve [Nash] had the ball and that's how we played. Now Amar'e has the ball and that's how we play."

After tonight, Stoudemire and the Knicks have two more winnable games (the Wizards on Friday and the Nuggets on Sunday) before the competition dramatically improves. They will play host to the Celtics and Heat next week.

Stoudemire said he is looking forward to facing the Celtics again.

"I think we've gotten a lot better," he said. "It's going to be a great matchup when we see them again."
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/an_amar_story_El0VFWv0IqhHhImGjHddrM#ixzz17WrfLFRX


http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/an_amar_story_El0VFWv0IqhHhImGjHddrM#ixzz17Wr8QFUU

 

[tommykairaa]

gotta win tonight. lego

 

[stylishstef89]

The Raptors again? I'm getting tired of seeing this team 

Anyway, remember to please keep an eye on Amir Johnson, STAT.

 

[pmatic]

Leader Of The Revival

We’re trying very hard to separate fact from fiction where Amar’e Stoudemire and the surging New York Knicks are concerned.

Do we blindly celebrate the fact that Stoudemire is on a personal tear (five straight games of 30-plus points for the first time in his career) and just ignore the combined 64 wins of the Knicks’ victims on their current streak, they’ve won 10 of 11 games?

And keep in mind that 13 of those wins belong to the New Orleans Hornets, the only team with a winning record the Knicks have defeated during this current stretch (tonight’s opponent, Toronto, is 8-13).

We don’t know how much stock to put in Stoudemire and the Knicks’ performance and how much of this needs to be colored by the level of competition. It’s pretty obvious they are connected, one doesn’t happen without the other. It’s the weight distribution that we are struggling with right now, though.

A Monday morning Tweet suggested that we’ve been ignoring Stoudemire’s “MVP-worthy

 

[proshares]

Thanks Nas

 

[l knicks fresh knick l]

lets get this win tonight

 

[duba169]

we never used to beat the teams we were "supposed" to beat so @#!% everybody trying to take something away from us. the heat have one quality win but all i see is articles about how they are on a roll and dominating teams.

not too comftorble about tonight. hard to beat a team 3 times in a row in such a short period of time

 

[sircharles2ol3]

My boy STAT is doing his thing

.
Imma be at the game tonight. I pray stat drops 40 and we take the W. Haven't been to a game in a while.. would be nice to leave happy. Lol.

 

[yeeupp]

Ewing posted 29.6 ppg, 10.6 rpg, 3.99 bpg and 57 percent shooting in the Knicks' opening 22.

Was Ewing a beast, or a F*#%!^& BEAST !




Do we have another game vs Bobcats, if we sweep Bobcats AND Toronto.. that would be huge. We're 6th place. But with win %, we're 4th in the East.

We need to track up these next two games before we really face competition.

 

[sircharles2ol3]

Originally Posted by YEEUPP

Ewing posted 29.6 ppg, 10.6 rpg, 3.99 bpg and 57 percent shooting in the Knicks' opening 22.

Was Ewing a beast, or a F*#%!^& BEAST !




Do we have another game vs Bobcats, if we sweep Bobcats AND Toronto.. that would be huge. We're 6th place. But with win %, we're 4th in the East.

We need to track up these next two games before we really face competition.

those block numbers...

 

[GaBeGRaMz]

Originally Posted by StylishStef89

The Raptors again? I'm getting tired of seeing this team 

Anyway, remember to please keep an eye on Amir Johnson, STAT.

I was thinking this on Sunday. I was like "Damn, Amare going to try and kill Amir on Weds." after a hard foul Amir gave him and all those highlight dunks.

Stat WILL kill.

 

[devildog1776]

WE PLAY THE RAPTORS LIKE 6 TIMES A SEASON EVERY SEASON

 

[throwback1718]

Originally Posted by devildog1776

WE PLAY THE RAPTORS LIKE 6 TIMES A SEASON EVERY SEASON

I be thinkin the same thing,
and yo the world needs to be reminded of Pat's numbers. People think its a joke.

 

[devildog1776]

Originally Posted by throwback1718

Originally Posted by devildog1776

WE PLAY THE RAPTORS LIKE 6 TIMES A SEASON EVERY SEASON

I be thinkin the same thing,
and yo the world needs to be reminded of Pat's numbers. People think its a joke.

WORD... i think it was like 90-91 where his numbers were MONSTER . Jordan had to be GOD that season so PATs numbers get overlooked

 

[yeeupp]

[h2]Union's CBA Proposal Leaked[/h2]

Dec 08, 2010 1:39 PM EST

In a podcast conveyed to NBA players, union chief Billy Hunter said that he will not agree to a hard cap with the league seeing large growth in revenues.

Details of the union's proposal for the next collective bargaining agreement were obtained by the New York Times.

They include expanding flexibility for completing trades (such that player salaries traded only need to be within approximately 250 percent of each other), eliminating base-year compensation rules, increasing qualifying offers required to make a player a restricted free agent, shortening the time period a team has to match a restricted free agent's offer sheet, replacing the biannual exception with a second midlevel exception, and dropping the age limit back to 18.


what does this mean for Melo?

 

[mronegative]

Sounds like nothing. It won't take effect until after the season and the trade deadline, so we couldn't use that trade flexibility, which basically says we could trade Ray Felton for CP3 straight up.

All it says it that now any team over the cap can basically sign half a new team every off-season.

This is bull *%@% to throw back at Stern's cut 1/3 of salaries bull *%@%.