BASKETBALL FROM A FANS PERSPECTIVE
For Sale
Owner James Dolan claims he wants to sell the Knicks but only for the right price. We immediately begin research to discover $$$, their value probably exceeds their own court performance. Sure, enough confirmation was uncovered, according to the February 2018 edition of Forbes the Knicks are valued at $3.6 billion. Dolan claims he’s seen figures of $5 billion offered for the team but doesn’t consider them bona fide.
Owner James Dolan claims he wants to sell the Knicks but only for the right price. We immediately begin research to discover $$$, their value probably exceeds their own court performance. Sure, enough confirmation was uncovered, according to the February 2018 edition of Forbes the Knicks are valued at $3.6 billion. Dolan claims he’s seen figures of $5 billion offered for the team but doesn’t consider them bona fide.
As we often
here location, location, location has got to be the key factor in the net worth
of the Knicks it certainly can’t be on-court performance. New York City i.e. The Big Apple, Broadway,
Times Square, Wall Street and several other high dollar locations make for the
Knicks being a valuable franchise. As
for Dolan selling the team I’ll believe it when I see it, we don’t know where
the offers come from however there’s a great deal of zeros between 3.6 and
5.
Characters
The Lakers Lance Stephenson was a character prior to Los Angeles. Recently he received a technical foul for playing an “air guitar” after sinking a 3-point basket. Of course, you remember the ear blowing episode. Standing on the free-throw line next to LeBron James he can be seen blowing in his future teammates ear. You might remember I once wrote about the lack of characters in today’s game? I guess we could state Stephenson is a throw-back to some of those earlier characters. Former Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs, once during a game fans were tossing debris on the court. Game officials requested he address the issue on the P.A., Tubbs response was something like this.
The Lakers Lance Stephenson was a character prior to Los Angeles. Recently he received a technical foul for playing an “air guitar” after sinking a 3-point basket. Of course, you remember the ear blowing episode. Standing on the free-throw line next to LeBron James he can be seen blowing in his future teammates ear. You might remember I once wrote about the lack of characters in today’s game? I guess we could state Stephenson is a throw-back to some of those earlier characters. Former Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs, once during a game fans were tossing debris on the court. Game officials requested he address the issue on the P.A., Tubbs response was something like this.
“Please stop throwing trash on the court no
matter how bad the officiating is.” With that statement Tubbs received a couple
of quick techs and was ejected. I guess
we could include Kyrie Irving a throw-back too, he’s stated his public belief
the earth is flat and not round. I don’t
know if we could include Steph Curry in the conversation, he now claims he was
only joking about the moon landings being a hoax. Back in the days of the American Basketball
Association a player was confused on time zones. He refused to board a flight seeing the time difference between Central and Eastern
Time said, “I don’t want to be getting’
in no time machine.” The late
Charles Shackleford issued this proclamation discussing his shooting, “Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter? I’m amphibious.”
Is it over?
It’s seemed like weeks since we heard any news regarding Carmelo Anthony. Once again, we ask the question is his NBA career over? That indeed might be the case other than LeBron expressing a desire to unite with Anthony we’ve heard nothing. LeBron’s got at least two BFF’s, Dwayne Wade and Carmelo Anthony so this is not exactly news. Late in his NBA career Anthony has become strictly a perimeter player; the earlier version had an all-around game.
It’s seemed like weeks since we heard any news regarding Carmelo Anthony. Once again, we ask the question is his NBA career over? That indeed might be the case other than LeBron expressing a desire to unite with Anthony we’ve heard nothing. LeBron’s got at least two BFF’s, Dwayne Wade and Carmelo Anthony so this is not exactly news. Late in his NBA career Anthony has become strictly a perimeter player; the earlier version had an all-around game.
It seemed
soon after he arrived in the Big Apple his game began to ebb, it continued his
one season in Oklahoma City. The move to
Houston was cosmetic only, he resumed the same style of play he’d exhibited
with the Thunder. Over time I’ve
witnessed several players in various professional sports appear to hang on at a
time their best years were behind them.
Only Anthony can revive his career at this point and if so, it’s going
to require sacrifices on his part.
Trivia
In the Kansas City market, we have Fox Sports Midwest telecasting Thunder games and other Midwest sports. During a recent game the pre-game host provided the audience an interesting tidbit of information. They said, “Pete Maravich’s number has been retired by the Pelican although he never played for them.” I was aware his number 7 had been retired by the Jazz however the franchise once based in New Orleans relocated to Utah several years ago. I decided to check and sure enough the studio host was indeed correct.
In the Kansas City market, we have Fox Sports Midwest telecasting Thunder games and other Midwest sports. During a recent game the pre-game host provided the audience an interesting tidbit of information. They said, “Pete Maravich’s number has been retired by the Pelican although he never played for them.” I was aware his number 7 had been retired by the Jazz however the franchise once based in New Orleans relocated to Utah several years ago. I decided to check and sure enough the studio host was indeed correct.
For those unfamiliar “Pistol Pete” began his NBA career as a member of the Hawks, he was
practically a legend at LSU. His
trade-mark floppy socks Maravich might have been the first, he was a shooting
guard in a point guards’ body. While at
LSU his lowest scoring year was 1966-67 his freshman year scoring 43.6 points
per game. He wasn’t just a scoring
machine check out his passing skill on YouTube.
Injuries cut short his NBA career and at 40-years of age died of a heart
attack. Maravich is enshrined in the Naismith
and College Basketball Hall of Fame.
