Knicks · When did you become a fan? (page 2)

ToddTT wrote:

tomlin8 wrote:I go back to 72. I actually declared my love for NBA and the Knicks as my fav and began going to games mid year the 2nd time they won it all. I just made it. So I have the memory of winning it all. I have the program from the next season. I go back to the greats and remember Dean Meminger and Hawthorne Wingo :) oh Frazier, Reed, Bradley, Debusscher those guys too.

Okay ban this guy.

why? what a strange comment

NYKBocker wrote:

ToddTT wrote:

tomlin8 wrote:I go back to 72. I actually declared my love for NBA and the Knicks as my fav and began going to games mid year the 2nd time they won it all. I just made it. So I have the memory of winning it all. I have the program from the next season. I go back to the greats and remember Dean Meminger and Hawthorne Wingo :) oh Frazier, Reed, Bradley, Debusscher those guys too.

Okay ban this guy.

Fucking show off

tomlin8 wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

ToddTT wrote:

tomlin8 wrote:I go back to 72. I actually declared my love for NBA and the Knicks as my fav and began going to games mid year the 2nd time they won it all. I just made it. So I have the memory of winning it all. I have the program from the next season. I go back to the greats and remember Dean Meminger and Hawthorne Wingo :) oh Frazier, Reed, Bradley, Debusscher those guys too.

Okay ban this guy.

Fucking show off

wtf man? dont know if youre trying to be funny but it doesnt seem funny to invoke cursing. Be nicer

Fuckin'A!

ToddTT wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:I remember being in like 5th grade and listening to teachers and classmates talk about NYC sports and then I started watching the Knicks on channel 9 back when they had Rory Sparrow and Sly Williams. Then reading the Daily News and Post sports sections and I was hooked. I remember listening to Knicks games on the radio at night too when they weren't on TV and I can't remember the broadcaster but he was great. Anyone recall the broadcasting teams on TV and radio back in those days ?

The physicality of the 90’s Knicks, and the banter between Marv and Johnny Hoops… man I was hooked!

Here’s a long list of broadcasters. Seems like Bill Daughtry should be in there too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ne...

Thanks Todd, my favorite was Butch Beard. He was only there one season so that was the season I became a fan.

tomlin8 wrote:

ToddTT wrote:

tomlin8 wrote:I go back to 72. I actually declared my love for NBA and the Knicks as my fav and began going to games mid year the 2nd time they won it all. I just made it. So I have the memory of winning it all. I have the program from the next season. I go back to the greats and remember Dean Meminger and Hawthorne Wingo :) oh Frazier, Reed, Bradley, Debusscher those guys too.

Okay ban this guy.

why? what a strange comment

Meant to be completely harmless. I’m actually quite happy for you! Maybe we’ll all know that feeling less than a year from now.

ToddTT wrote:

tomlin8 wrote:I go back to 72. I actually declared my love for NBA and the Knicks as my fav and began going to games mid year the 2nd time they won it all. I just made it. So I have the memory of winning it all. I have the program from the next season. I go back to the greats and remember Dean Meminger and Hawthorne Wingo :) oh Frazier, Reed, Bradley, Debusscher those guys too.

Okay ban this guy.

Right, by all standards those brain cells should have been almost fully upgraded by just the right balance of 50 years worth of whiskey and hookers and good times memories?

NYKBocker wrote:I was fresh off the boat, in this case a jumbo jet, when I saw in the TV Bernard King going up against the Pistons. I was hooked

From the Philippines?

ToddTT wrote:My memory is shit, but I think this was the series where I officially became a basketball fan.

Prior to this I always skipped the channel (channel 9?) whenever I saw basketball was on.

I thought it was a couple of years earlier, but I remember seeing Ewing, Oak, X-Man, Rodman, and thinking… “holy shit how have I never watched this?!?”

‘91-‘92 was when I became a fan too. I specifically remember that series it was the end of the Isiah Bad Boy Pistons. Next series was world war 3 aka Knicks/Bulls 1992. One of my biggest regrets ever in life was not seeing game 1 live I was ten years old and went to a dinner at the Ground Round in Hackensack, NJ instead. I remember hearing a guy at the bar screaming Ewing’s name

ToddTT wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:I remember being in like 5th grade and listening to teachers and classmates talk about NYC sports and then I started watching the Knicks on channel 9 back when they had Rory Sparrow and Sly Williams. Then reading the Daily News and Post sports sections and I was hooked. I remember listening to Knicks games on the radio at night too when they weren't on TV and I can't remember the broadcaster but he was great. Anyone recall the broadcasting teams on TV and radio back in those days ?

The physicality of the 90’s Knicks, and the banter between Marv and Johnny Hoops… man I was hooked!

Here’s a long list of broadcasters. Seems like Bill Daughtry should be in there too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ne...

Mike Fratello and Marv had amazing chemistry

Philc1 wrote:

ToddTT wrote:My memory is shit, but I think this was the series where I officially became a basketball fan.

Prior to this I always skipped the channel (channel 9?) whenever I saw basketball was on.

I thought it was a couple of years earlier, but I remember seeing Ewing, Oak, X-Man, Rodman, and thinking… “holy shit how have I never watched this?!?”

‘91-‘92 was when I became a fan too. I specifically remember that series it was the end of the Isiah Bad Boy Pistons. Next series was world war 3 aka Knicks/Bulls 1992. One of my biggest regrets ever in life was not seeing game 1 live I was ten years old and went to a dinner at the Ground Round in Hackensack, NJ instead. I remember hearing a guy at the bar screaming Ewing’s name

That's a heavy regret to carry all those years!
You were but 10 years old. Did you give up a ticket and "instead went to dinner at the ground round in Hackensack?" Was this even a reality?

martin wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:I was fresh off the boat, in this case a jumbo jet, when I saw in the TV Bernard King going up against the Pistons. I was hooked

From the Philippines?

I became a knicks fan (Richie Guerin, Kenny Sears) around 1958 when I was going to PS14. In 1959 we won a city title that's when some of the coaches from Saint Anthony's tried to recruit me but I chose to go to Lincoln High in Jersey City and I played the point and shooting guard. We had a big game one night and I had to choose between playing basketball or singing with my singing group at an armature contest at the theater and guess which one I choose.

Papabear wrote:Papabear Says

I became a knicks fan (Richie Guerin, Kenny Sears) around 1958 when I was going to PS14. In 1959 we won a city title that's when some of the coaches from Saint Anthony's tried to recruit me but I chose to go to Lincoln High in Jersey City and I played the point and shooting guard. We had a big game one night and I had to choose between playing basketball or singing with my singing group at an armature contest at the theater and guess which one I choose.

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ToddTT wrote:

Papabear wrote:Papabear Says

I became a knicks fan (Richie Guerin, Kenny Sears) around 1958 when I was going to PS14. In 1959 we won a city title that's when some of the coaches from Saint Anthony's tried to recruit me but I chose to go to Lincoln High in Jersey City and I played the point and shooting guard. We had a big game one night and I had to choose between playing basketball or singing with my singing group at an armature contest at the theater and guess which one I choose.

Papabear Sings

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But watching those crazy games and individual stories and matchups was amazing... Ewing vs Olajowon, Starks vs Mad Max, Oak vs Thorpe... those were EPIC games!!!
Ever since I was a Knick for live!!!

cooch2584 wrote:12years old 1967

I was born in 1971 and a younger co worker asked me " Is that when Roman Numerals were invented in 1971 " I hate younger people.