
He scolded us: "That's exactly what I said with twelve seconds left [in Game 1]. And I jinxed them. You just did the same thing." The Garden will be a madhouse tonight, but it will be tinged with legitimate fear: A loss tonight, and Game 4 won't have nearly the same buzz. The Knicks have learned a lot about themselves in the first two games, and they've impressed plenty of people. Now it would be helpful to go about the dirty business of winning an actual game.
Certainly, it is not ideal for a team playing its first home playoff game in seven years to be so riddled with injuries - particularly considering how healthy the Knicks were coming into the playoffs - but them's the breaks. Chauncey Billups is looking increasingly unlikely to play, and Amar'e Stoudemire sat out yesterday's practice with his back issues. (He was at the team shootaround this morning.) The Knicks are not near 100 percent. And they weren't expected to put up too much of a fight in this series even when they were 100 percent.
But a series does not take place in a vacuum, which is good, because otherwise everyone's hair would look all weird when each game was over. The Celtics' weaknesses have been apparent this series -- it's unlikely the Heat are feeling particularly worried right now, no matter what happens here -- and the Knicks, despite the two losses, still are more confident (and seemingly less desperate) than any team down 2–0 should be. The losses in Boston were tough to take, but they were certainly not demoralizing: The Knicks could very well be up 2–0 in this series. This does not seem like an impossible task.
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By: M.G on 4/22/2011 2:59PM
But they won't! Let's go, Celtics!!!!!
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By: Dlove on 4/22/2011 6:12PM
You are so stupid and just begging to have your azz headed to u for saying this dum off point subject, Cant you read this is about basketball you idiot! Your messed up views mean nothing, And Im happy your using your right to bare arms and your freedom of speak but theres a time and a place,next time you speak on something u know nothing about go on youtube so people can see and hear you dont be a punk and write your words be a man. And for the record cowards carry guns.
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By: cifescentercourt on 4/22/2011 6:29PM
Let's just hope for the better. GO KNICKS...
http://cifemanscentercourt.blogspot.com/2011/04/knicks-vs-celtics-rivalry-renewed-game.html
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By: cifescentercourt on 4/22/2011 6:32PM
LETS GO KNICKS...
http://cifemanscentercourt.blogspot.com/2011/04/knicks-vs-celtics-rivalry-renewed-game.html
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By: teabaggeredgar on 4/22/2011 6:58PM
NA, LET HOPE FOR THE BETTER: GO CELTICS.
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By: M. Alexander on 4/23/2011 11:41AM
Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudamire cannot compete with Boston's big 3 of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce ! When you throw in Rajon Rondo, it's lights out for New York !
New York hasn't been a serious contender for an NBA championship since Walt "Clyde" Frazier and Earl "The Pearl" Monroe and company left MSG !
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By: M. Alexander on 4/23/2011 11:44AM
Uh, George, Whites have maimed, killed and lynched Blacks in America since the end of and before the start of the Civil War so what is your point !
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By: seanbrwn1 on 4/23/2011 11:58AM
george this was a b-ball site but i must say that ignorance is not a color issue.people attacking others is something world wide, and history teaches that. who went to africa to capture slaves. who went to america and ran the inhabitants.it sure wasnt my black azz or my group of friends.while it is wrong to gang up on someone this is something that has nothing to do with color.unless u in the kkk or some type of gang who targets a person because of it.protect urself of course,but dont become part of the problem.
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By: seanbrwn1 on 4/23/2011 12:02PM
to heck wit them all!!! Go LAKERS
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By: OOOZZZZZ on 4/23/2011 12:08PM
Quote by George: "These black on white violence stories are now DAILY occurrences. But the mainstream media will not ever mention the race of the aggressors, that would be "racist" and not politically correct."........"Imagine if it had been whites beating a black woman, it would be national headlines with the DOJ intervening and investigating. But it being black on white violence, the blacks will get away scot free, when they should be charged with attempted murder. And I'm talking about the black employees as well, who should not only be fired but charged as criminal accessories to attempted murder. The black employees could have at least locked the doors to keep the black women in until police arrived, instead they helped them escape.
George, isn't this how your White ancestors, grandmothers and grandmothers many who are still alive today, well before and during the Jim Crow Era for hundreds of years, operated in regards to White on Black violence?
Consider all the thoudands of cold cases of Blacks being killed by all various forms of murder who have never been arrested; brought to justice and the entire White community population knew who killed each one of those innocent Black folk and just the way you described it as "black employees do nothing and actually warn the black women to get out before police arrive:...is the exact same thing that Whites did and the big difference was is that the White police force actually committed many of the murders and supported the murders and arrested no one since they were also part of the Ku Klux Klan in addition to being law enforcement.
And I'll use your words as a point...."The black employees could have at least locked the doors to keep the black women in until police arrived, instead they helped them escape."........The White folks who were standing by watching that Black man being hanged and burned from an oak tree should have gotten involved and detain those rednecks and wait until the police arrived but instead they simply watched an innocent Black man die and probably stood next to the hanged and burned body while some asshole redneck took pictures."
So while you rants about some White woman getting killed by a Black women, consider your own murderous history, hertaige and legacy of tousands of killings and murders of innocent Black folk for no apparent reason except for the simple fact of being Black.
Don't talk about other's back yards when you are a child of one the largest groups of no compassion, no remorse, racist murders and killers in America.
One down, many more to go.
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