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Looks like "Jefferson Disses the Knicks" articles are an attempt to get NY all fired up for the game tomorrow. He pretty much told it as it is....it's been a while since 1973.
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@ RJ. I love that.
The New York Knicks’ return to the playoff chase after a decade of irrelevance has made for feel-good fodder for much of the national NBA media.
Spurs forward Richard Jefferson, whose team embarks today for a game Tuesday at venerable Madison Square Garden, doesn’t see what all the fuss is about.
“Even though they had a bunch of great teams for a bunch of years, they haven’t won a championship since the 1970s,” Jefferson, who spent the first seven seasons of his career playing across the Hudson in New Jersey, said Sunday. “This is not a Boston Celtics team or like the Lakers franchise. What year was the last time they won a championship? 1973?
“So to say basketball is back in New York, what does that even mean?”
Boosted by the offseason arrival of All-Star center Amare Stoudemire in free agency, the Knicks have opened the season 19-14, good for sixth in the Eastern Conference. They aren’t exactly threatening the 29-4 Spurs for the best record in the NBA, but for a team that hasn’t made the postseason since 2000-01, it’s a start.
Though several in the Spurs’ camp, including coach Gregg Popovich, agreed it is good for the NBA to have a winning team in New York, Jefferson deemed the topic “completely pointless.”
He isn’t buying the prevailing notion of New York as a basketball mecca.
“There are too many good players and teams,” Jefferson said. “You look at how great it was for Cleveland having LeBron (James) and what it did to that community and how important it was for them. You look at what is going on now in Miami or in Oklahoma City.
“It’s great for whatever city gets the benefit, but I don’t think one city is more important than another.”
ANDERSON SHOOTS: Injured rookie guard James Anderson ramped up his rehabilitation Sunday, engaging in light shooting drills after practice.
Initially diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right foot on Nov. 11, an injury that required surgery and eight weeks of recovery, Anderson remains on track to return to full contact later this month.
“He’s closer to wearing a uniform than he is to wearing civilian clothes,” Popovich said.
Anderson will not make the Spurs’ upcoming three-game road trip to New York, Boston and Indiana.
WEEK OF LOWS: After the Spurs set another new season best for field-goal percentage defense in Saturday’s 101-74 win over Oklahoma City, even Popovich had to recognize his team’s renewed focus on that end.
It marked the third time in a week the Spurs had turned in a new best, surpassing lockdown efforts against Washington and the Lakers.
The point total was the lowest of the season for the Thunder and for a Spurs opponent. The Spurs held NBA scoring leader Kevin Durant to 16 points, matching a season low, and held Russell Westbrook to season lows in points (eight) and assists (two).
Durant and Westbrook came into the game as the NBA’s highest-scoring duo at 50.5 points per game.
I'm just being an asshole. I saw the interview with Jefferson. I know what he said. I find it hard to believe that a) anyone in NYC is reporting on this b) anyone would think what Jefferson said was "controversial" c) the Knicks are using it as inspiration.
That link is just another Spurs fan website . . .
It's actually the Spurs primary beat writer in a blog on the Spurs' hometown newspaper.That link is just another Spurs fan website . . .
tomato, tomahto . . . it's not anyone in NYC twas the point.
Last edited by ohmwrecker; 01-03-2011 at 05:51 PM.
Yeah, I think you're right. It was on bleacherreport, which I don't know how credible or far reaching they are. I'm sure there is more important news coming out of the Big Apple.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/basket...ival-1.2583523
R.J. unimpressed with New York revival
10:02 AM By Alan Hahn
The Spurs come to town with their blazing-hot 29-4 start, with Tony Parker admitting the Knicks were his first choice had the Spurs let him walk and Richard Jefferson unzipping his fly and relieving himself on the notion that basketball was back in New York.
“Even though they had a bunch of great teams for a bunch of years, they haven’t won a championship since the 1970s,” Jefferson told the San Antonio Express-News on Sunday. “This is not a Boston Celtics team or like the Lakers franchise. What year was the last time they won a championship? 1973?
“So to say basketball is back in New York, what does that even mean?”
Jefferson knows the New York area well. He called the area home for the first seven years of his career when he played for the Nets and even chose to live in Manhattan. But he wasn't buying into the idea that a winning Knicks franchise is any better for the NBA than, say, a winning team in Cleveland.
"You look at how great it was for Cleveland having LeBron and what it did to that community and how important it was for them. You look at what is going on now in Miami or in Oklahoma City," he said. “It’s great for whatever city gets the benefit, but I don’t think one city is more important than another.”
So is he right?
Television ratings, of course, factor into this debate. When LeBron and the Cavs met the Spurs in the championship round in 2007, it produced a 6.2 rating, which was a record low for an NBA Finals. It drew on average 9 million viewers per game.
When the Knicks hosted the Heat on Christmas Day 2010 was the most watched ESPN game of the 2009-10 season with 2.65 million viewers, which is impressive for a noon tip-off, which is when most families who celebrate Christmas are still clearing the wrapping paper off the family room floor. And this year's Christmas game between the Knicks and Bulls brought in even more at 4.02 million viewers.
Gregg Popovich has a different opinion than of his player.
“You have to be realistic,” Popovich said. “It’s a huge market. Having good basketball teams in huge markets like New York would be a no-brainder. It’s good for the sport. It’s good for everybody.”
It was also good for Pop, who celebrated his first championship with the Spurs in the Big Apple in 1999.
“Madison Square Garden, that’s the place,” Popovich said. “You think about playing basketball in the Garden is like the pinnacle of the sport.”
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* - The Knicks are practicing later this morning. Danilo Gallinari is expected to undergo an MRI to get a better idea of the condition of his left knee after it gave out in the fourth quarter when Brandon Rush fell into him. At this point it's being diagnosed as a Grade 1 sprain, but nothing has been determined regarding his ability for Tuesday's game against Jefferson and the Spurs.
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RJ deserves an ill will facial.. or better yet, a tooth to the bicep..I say - F* YOU RJI hope Ronny clobbers him.Can someone please put RJ on his *** for this?Jefferson needs to smacked across the face with an iron even though his face looks like it has been already.I hope the whole crowd boos him and throws beer in his ears even though nothing will go in there since they are the size of pennies.can we at least throw a few dunks down on him, or a few embarrassing blocks. An elbow or 2 would work also...
Heh...we better win this ing game, though.
It never ceases to amaze how stupid people are . . .
i hope RJ scores 30 in a win against the knicks tomorrow.
do you think he will get booed
Last edited by BanditHiro; 01-03-2011 at 08:08 PM.
RJ should've kept it P.C. until after the results were in our favor. Small like this gives your opponent that extra boost.
I doubt any players on the Knicks really give a what RJ said . . . of course, I've been wrong before.
You gotta love the New Yorkers though..funny stuff. Think we need to win!
Not the players I was thinking about..I doubt any players on the Knicks really give a what RJ said . . . of course, I've been wrong before.
Not the players I was thinking about..
Fans?! Who cares?
So it is fun to tease knicks fans ah. Reggie Miller was definitely having fun doing that. lol
RJ didnt' say anything that wasn't true. The Knicks aren't doing anything "oooooooh". They started off strong but since then they've been rather mediocre. Sure, compared to last year they are better, but they aren't Boston. Even Paul Pierce said "what rivalry?".
It's all media bull .
thanks RJ for sealing the Loss
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