Comments on: Unsung Knick History – How the Pacers Helped the Knicks Get a Pearl http://KnickerBlogger.Net/unsung-knick-history-how-the-pacers-helped-the-knicks-get-a-pearl/ The NBA's indispensible, premier analytical blog. Mon, 20 May 2013 22:10:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nick C. http://KnickerBlogger.Net/unsung-knick-history-how-the-pacers-helped-the-knicks-get-a-pearl/#comment-307233 Nick C. Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:51:24 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=5422#comment-307233 I didn’t want to turn this into a Melo thread, though the parallel you describe, Z, is there. Perhaps if we fast forward (sorry for the unfunny pun) a few years the NYK had Spencer Haywood and Bob McAdoo in their prime on the same squad. To be honest I don’t think that worked well but that is very dim, very young memory and they may well have been higher in the league food chain so to speak than Amare and Melo.

]]> By: Z http://KnickerBlogger.Net/unsung-knick-history-how-the-pacers-helped-the-knicks-get-a-pearl/#comment-307232 Z Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:24:34 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=5422#comment-307232 Another great piece Brian!

Should we be drawing parallels between these events in 1971 and what is going on now, 30 years later– a highly paid player trying to leverage a trade to a big market… A debate as to whether a trade to NY is redundant… The threat of the league collapsing looming over the process…

Just saying, it all worked out pretty well for the ‘Bockers 30 years ago is all….

]]> By: Nick C. http://KnickerBlogger.Net/unsung-knick-history-how-the-pacers-helped-the-knicks-get-a-pearl/#comment-307229 Nick C. Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:25:25 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=5422#comment-307229 Great story. I had read he was holding out but never knew the Pacer twist.

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