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Originally Posted by chino905

I've never been to the Garden for a Knicks game before, so I will definitely cop tickets for a few this year.

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I couldnt get tickets for the cavs or la so I had to settle for the cavs in jersey

Originally Posted by xblker47

Originally Posted by chino905

I've never been to the Garden for a Knicks game before, so I will definitely cop tickets for a few this year.

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I couldnt get tickets for the cavs or la so I had to settle for the cavs in jersey

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*GASP!!!* HOW COULD YOU? THIS MAN IS AN IMPOSTER, SUPPORTING THE ENEMYACROSS THE RIVER I'M SURE THEGR8 WOULD BE VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU!

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I'm just kidding
but still that's very disappointing to read

Starting five tomorrow willp be Duhon, Hughes, Jeffries, Harrington and Lee.

D'Antoni wants to go with vets. Says don't read into it.

dont like that lineup at all. i understand its preseason and dantoni just wants to test out different lineups but really?? o and i think this is a sign thatjeffries and hughes will be in the rotation....

New thread, new beginnings?

Anyway, I go into this season with mild hopes. Perhaps I should be even lower so I don't upset myself later on. Looking forward to seeing Lee have an evenbetter season.

if he wanted to go with vets, wouldnt the line up be Duhon, Hughes, Al, Lee, Darko?

Nah dantoni is just showcasing hughes and jeffries early for the other gms

Sounds like last year.

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

Originally Posted by blackmagnus514

I want Joe Johnson next summer. more realistic target than Bron

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That's exactly who I want. Honestly, give me Lee and Joe Johnson > Lebron and nobody else.

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Wow.

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

Originally Posted by blackmagnus514

I want Joe Johnson next summer. more realistic target than Bron

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That's exactly who I want. Honestly, give me Lee and Joe Johnson > Lebron and nobody else.

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Joe Johnson better stay as far away from the Knicks as possible.

Originally Posted by HueyP in LouieV

Originally Posted by HarlemToTheBronx

Starting five tomorrow willp be Duhon, Hughes, Jeffries, Harrington and Lee.

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Yo mann...that was unnecessary

What in the hell...

it's the first game ..of the preseason..be easy

@The .gifs.

I really don't want Joe Johnson. What has he really done in ATL? He's a good player...but I don't know if a team can contend with him as their starplayer.

Who knows though? I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens next summer. I get the feeling he's the best we'll get next year.

Originally Posted by pr0phecy718

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Well considering im a huge fan of our star player were gona get in 2010 and I couldnt get tickets for him in NY I had to settle for the next bestthing

could care less about the lineup..wake me up in 3 weeks for that.

Originally Posted by THE GR8

*GASP!!!* HOW COULD YOU? THIS MAN IS AN IMPOSTER, SUPPORTING THE ENEMY ACROSS THE RIVER

I'M SURE THEGR8 WOULD BE VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU!

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agreed, i would NEVER purchase Swamprat tickets unless im going to support my Knicks, i dont ride Brons !#$! like that... Until Lebron has pictures being taken wearing his new Knicks uni, he can suck my !#$!

Originally Posted by THE GR8

*GASP!!!* HOW COULD YOU? THIS MAN IS AN IMPOSTER, SUPPORTING THE ENEMY ACROSS THE RIVER

I'M SURE THEGR8 WOULD BE VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU!

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agreed, i would NEVER purchase Swamprat tickets unless im going to support my Knicks, i dont ride Brons !#$! like that... Until Lebron has pictures being taken wearing his new Knicks uni, he can suck my !#$!

Yo THE GR8 is my dude he took the words outta my mouth. Pause

[h1]As Knicks wait on 2010, signs point toward improvement[/h1]

Peter Vecsey
SARATOGA SPRINGS - So, the final season of "Clearing the Crap, er, Cap" gets underway for the Knicks this afternoon with a preseason tip-offagainst the Nyets at the Times Union Center.
Nothing screams "big ratings" quite like daytime exhibition basketball on a football Sunday.

As if anyone remotely attuned to the NBA has to be reminded . . . romancing LeBron is 271 shopping days away.

The smart money in the Capital area is betting the Knicks are a month away from becoming less relevant (not in my book) than David Paterson.

Never one to jump to conclusions, unless on deadline, I'm holding off making a definitive decision on the team's (mis)fortune until Danilo Gallinari finds his legs/shooting touch, Eddy Curry gets his first wind and the realDarko Milicic (please!) stands up for more than one straight scrimmage.

Say this much for the training campers, though - at least Barack Obama hasn't told them not to run.

Following several look-sees, my educated guess is Mike D'Antoni's sequel season ought to be reasonably better than the 32-50 wretched resume of ayear ago. Incorporating a defensive emphasis into his coaching values (something he haughtily resisted in Phoenix upon request from management) should go along way toward capturing games misplaced in the heart of the matter (18 losses by five or fewer points) in D'Antoni's unveiling.

That is, if the players cooperate by actually learning defensive fundamentals and nuances that have managed to escape them to date, the effort isunremitting for an entire schedule, not just the first 60-odd games like last season, and help is there in the underbrush when urgently needed.

Having Milicic Roamin' like Polanski cannot help but tighten security. Listed at 7-feet, the six-year Serbian veteran appears conspicuously taller toteammates David Lee and Jared Jeffries (confidently shooting surprisingly well from outside),who are convinced he's minimally 7-2.

Team president Donnie Walsh says, "Before Darko arrived Rik Smits (7-6) was the only player I ever had who had to tilt his head when walking into myoffice."

"Having Darko means the world to us," Al Harrington gushes. "Last yearwe had no line of defense when someone breached the interior. Our best shot blocker was Wilson (Chandler). Darko's length, athleticism and shot blockingability are going to make trespassers think twice about driving to the basket."

Milicic hasn't flat out dominated, but teammates and coaches say they can see signs why he was the second pick of the draft in '03. All indicationsare he's a flawless fit in D'Antoni's pick-and-pop system.

Aside from proving protection in the occupied area, Milicic can shoot, pass, run the floor (though his chosen speed often leaves a lot to be desired),rebound with two hands when he puts his mind to it and dunks on all challengers.

The coaching staff and teammates long for Milicic to transfer all those tools from practice to games on a regular basis.

Is eighth place in the Eastern Bloc rationally within the Knicks grasp?

"We're healthier, more familiar with each other, the rookies are talented and we got a good bunch of guys who get along" David Lee allows.

"Seems like everyone in the media is writing this off as a wasted year until the real players come aboard," Harrington huffs. "We ain'tplayin' that role. We talk about it all the time. We ain't waitin' for next season. I got a lot of pride. So do my teammates."

By my count, the Knicks' roster is swarming with six impending free agent refugees. Harrington, Lee, Nate Robinson, Larry Hughes, Milicic and ChrisDuhon all are in their final season of servitude and, as we well know, no one in New York not named Bloomberg is guaranteed a job for life.

Fleeting experience with humans and the species known as professional athletes suggests selfishness tends to seep into the locker room and on the court inthis type of a situation. Temptation to pad ones' stats is almost always irresistibly ruinous.

"Scoring a lot of points on a bad team is not viewed in a positive light by management," underlines Harrington, amazingly embarking on his 12thseason and yet only 29. "It gets you nowhere! I lived it in Atlanta. I averaged 19 points (18.6) in my free agent year and we won something like 23 (26)games."

Let's not get carried away; while Harrington may have been "forced to settle" for $36 million from Walsh's Pacers the summer of '06,it's not like collection plates had to be passed to keep him in limos for his feet.

At the same time, Harrington's thrust is irrefutable: The Pistons reached the Eastern Conference finals that same season and defensive specialist BenWallace was rewarded with a $60 million, four-year contract by the Cavaliers.

"Management wants players who can help a team win. At the end of the day, that's all that matters," attests Harrington, so zealous aboutfinishing his career as a Knick he promises to share the ball now and then.

IncrimiNate has yet to be heard from.

"We got to overachieve and the only way we can do that is to sacrifice individual stats for the good of the team," Harrison said. "We win asa team and everyone gets to carve up the payoff."

Even if it means having to go elsewhere.

This just in, Part I: Quentin Richardson was not traded yesterday. Now a member of the Heat after succinct pit stops with the Grizzlies, Clippers andTimberwolves, the slimmed down (dropped 35 pounds) ex-Knick holds the league record for being dealt the most times (four) in the least amount of time (threemonths).

This just in, Part II: Jerry Krause proclaimed, "Presidents don't win Olympics, organizations do."

BTW, much props to you big dummy embedding the official countdown clock on the first page 269 days to go and counting

The worst thing about the NBA season in NYC is having to hear and read Peter Vecsey's words.