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slow news: knicks, meet the world
slow news – May 12, 2008
It’s the End of the World as the Knicks Know It
By Harvey Araton
In one of the recent signs that (Ladies and Gentlemen) your New York Knickerbockers might return to the world of the living, recently hired GM Donnie Walsh hired Seven Seconds or Less ex-Suns coach Mike D’Antoni. D’Antoni, a former star player and coach in the Italian League, has innovated a run-and-gun system of beautiful basketball in Phoenix over the past several seasons. In this article, Araton discuss how the Knicks, located in the world’s most cosmopolitan city, have resisted the globalization of the NBA in recent years. As foreign-born players — like Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Steve Nash, Andres Nocioni, Mehmet Okur, and many others — have come to dominate (often with big men who can actually shoot), the Knicks have been a provincial backwater. D’Antoni’s arrival might just change that.
Of course, ca desperately hopes that D’Antoni and Walsh will be able to bring one of the best homegrown players to NY in 2010: LeBron James.
the knicks and iraq
From an e-mail exchange with a friend:
content analysis writes …
I’m not sure that anyone, but me is interested enough in the Knicks to read this whole painful article. But it’s really good.
friend of ca writes …
That’s easily one of the best sports articles I’ve ever read. The Barbosa quote after being fake-traded to the Knicks (“My heart was hurting”) and the Rockets’ scouting reports on the Knicks’ starters were highlights for me.
I hope this writer also does the eulogy for the Bush Administration. He mostly has the thing written, he just needs to swap out a few names and events (Isiah = W., Dolan = Cheney, Marbury trade = Iraq War, Randolph trade = the surge, etc.). Plus, he’s a really good “eugoogalizer.”
Friend of Content Analysis’s (FOCA) analogy of the depiction of the Knicks in this article to the Bush administration is so completely perfect, I can only hope to spread it as far and wide as possible. Please, Reader, do your part!
P.S. FOCA, when I read your e-mail, it was so perfect, yet painfully true that “my heart was hurting.”
