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74 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2024.08.07)”
Hey Geo, how about a new round of “Is (insert poster that we haven’t heard of in a while) still around?” ? Should i go first, or will you?
So Markkanen is not holding the market up anymore, will it be Ingram now? Or will the market start to flow? Or maybe it’s just that the market is flat and teams are ok with what they have for now. 😛
I don’t think Ingram’s holding up the market at all. He’s a guy that’s at his best when the offense is running through him but he really isn’t good enough to have the offense run through him. And he’s not that good off the ball. Don’t think there’s much of a market for him.
Good vibes?
Yeah, i agree. It seems like the Warriors want to improve, but i’m having a hard time seeing their team go far, unless 36yo Steph Curry turns back the clock.
I would put Ingram and LaVine in the same class of player. Not my cup of tea at any price, but especially at anything close what LaVine is making or Ingram wants to make.
No to what LaVine is making or what Ingram wants to make, for sure.
I watched the US Brazil game last night and I can’t get over how good Derrick White & Jrue Holiday are.
The Celtics are such a peculiar team. What makes them special is the supporting cast. The Porzingis Horford combo at center is perfect, too.
Tatum is the most fungible piece on that team. Replace him with any volume scorer and I doubt they miss a beat. They might even be better bc frankly I think he sucks as a primary option in the playoffs, but his supporting cast is too good for him to fail.
howdy cyber, I hope all is well for yourself and the family 😊
you know, I’m really enjoying the conversations on KB with the folks we have…
and, it seems we’ve been fortunate in that many of our old regular posters stop by to drop a note every so often…
as much as I enjoy the season, here at KB the summer time threads are by far some of my favorite…
just the recent thread on driving was incredible, a lot of fun…
honestly, other than dj phan, I can’t really think of anyone whom has disappeared for a while…
shoot, as long as jowles drops by every once in a while to let us know he’s okay – then I’m okay 🙂
Oh, I’m okay alright, geo. I’m fully (and happily) single for the first time since I was 29 and let me tell you something about the market for a near-38-year-old man with a decent job who can string together several complete sentences without aneurysm and has tennis glutes forged from cold-rolled steel: I’m exhausted, my dude. And several parts of my body are completely fucking chafed. I need to bathe in Eucerin to keep the peace.
Hate to come in here swinging a sock stuffed with a banana back and forth, but I am bloody loving this shit. #30somethingwhiteboysummer
And fuck the Celtics.
Jowles living the life of an Olympic pole-vaulter, good times
“I take comfort in that, knowin’ he’s out there. Jowles. Takin’ ‘er easy for all us sinners …”
Geo with the summoning spell. No rituals or reagents. Just boooom! Bravo.
For a brief time in my late 30’s I was single and living in the ultimate bachelor pad of all time, a mid-century modern apartment that was designed and built by Richard Neutra. When I moved in I spent a bunch of money on Eames pieces, a Nelson bubble lamp, and an audiophile stereo system. I had just got out of a nightmare relationship with a complete psycho and I was determined to live it up for the rest of my days.
The apartment was next door to the hottest bar in town, and I was playing in the hottest and best band in town. There was often a line to get into the bar, but I knew the people who ran it so I’d get full Studio 54 velvet rope treatment.
It was an amazing year, but eventually it backfired on me because I just became TOO cool and was able to date and eventually marry a woman who was out of my league.
Still have the bubble lamp and coffee table though. And the wife.
I’ve done this once, was worth it, plan to do it again
A very interesting thread developing here. Thinking which story to share.
Don’t look at me, I just got divorced after 29 years and am living in Mongolia with my son…
Rama, you just made me choke.
JK, apologies for the Doogie-like word-smithing, but I’m trying to understand it backfiring if you married someone out of your league and you’re still married. Kinda sounds like it worked like a charm…
Or is it that you wake up every single day feeling horribly unworthy?
It backfired only in the sense that I’m no longer the cool youngish guy in the impossibly dope apartment in Silver Lake regularly partying into the wee hours. I thought that would last forever.
Building Legos with my six year old is kinda better if I’m being honest.
No one warned me to live my 30s as a bachelor, so i was busy having a kid and raising him. LOL
I’d like to summon Bruno, my fellow portuguese speaking KB brother.
Rama, except the divorce obviously, that sounds amazing. You have to tell us more stories about Mongolia. I love to get to know distant countries from what real people do there and not through articles in the media/internet.
Rama didn’t you tell us once about a beauty queen in somme exotic country dumping her boyfriend for you on the spot?
Ahh…sniff…sniff…love the smell of testosterone in the mornin’
Has heterosex world caught up to sniffies yet? It’s ahmahzing…
I think we all could have used a course on relationships, dating, and picking the right person. When your permanent alternating dinner options are Tofu, Salmon and beans, either your wife is into healthy living or revenge.
I dated the daughter of a billionaire pretty seriously for a while (we lived together). She’s lovely but it didn’t work out in the end. However I grew from the relationship and got meet Pat Riley through her dad, courtesy of Pat giving us court side seats right next to the Heat bench. Win-win.
On Macri’s pod, Bobby Marks says ~$30M AAV sounds about right for Randle and if he were Randle he would seriously consider taking a 3/$100M extension. I beg everyone not to kill the messenger!
I saw my husband in a movie on the USA network a few years before I met him. He was and is way above my punching weight. I was on a lucky streak on the pool table that night (looking and acting like color of money was my jam – it is) and he knocked a beer over on me by mistake. We kissed before we talked. Ten years later all our friends were meeting and cavorting on the apps and then we decided to wade into the primordial sex muck. We’re twenty years in and having a sexually pluralistic open sex journey together and apart is pretty fucking dope. I don’t own his sex and he doesn’t own mine. Fun gossip at the dinner table too.
If there’s no market for Ingram that must inform the market for Randle to some extent no? Randles much better but not significantly different?
hell yeah brother get all sorts of weird up in there
I just briefly had a fling with a NYU girl out here who was close friends with James Dolan’s son in college or something, until he allegedly professed his love for her and she loled and bailed
apparently JD and the Straight Shot is even worse live than via YouTube
so yeah btw I pounded out a hot whip-smart redhead that Dolan’s son couldn’t wrangle (but to be fair, neither likely could I; stop texting me from across an ocean, K.; we’re not gonna make fetch happen)
gimme the W
seriously I need more Eucerin
I’m jealous of all you guys that had such swinging bachelor lives at one point in your life.
Don’t judge me by how I sometimes behave on forums with Knicks fans.
I am proof that a great job, more money than I knew what to do with, a higher than average IQ, a new car, my own place, an easy going personality, decent sense of humor, wide range of interests and willingness to try new things, and no shortage of female friends that told me I was cute and couldn’t understand why I didn’t have date that weekened….will not necessarily get you laid very often.
Those same female friends that told me I was cute would immediately have a look of horror on their face if I suggested we might be more than friends even before we got into the friend zone.
How I wound up with the woman I did wind up with is a great mystery to me because I clearly do not understand women at all and they never found me attractive. She is WAY too good for me based on prior results.
She must have a mental health problem I am unaware of that most other woman do not suffer from. If I disappear from the forum one day, maybe it finally surfaced. 😉
hmmm, you have peaked my curiosity darules 🙂
well mister honorable jowles – wonderful to hear life is moving along well for you, or like everyone else – making the best of it all…
maybe not quite as appealing a visual as yourself in action – i too got to FINALLY experience a little chafing…
bested friend to geo has been back out here in cali now for a couple of months, soooooooo – one saturday not too far back we were going at it all day…and i remember exclaiming at one point just how perfectly pleased i was with my performance (yeah, just what you wanna hear during “the moment” – your partner exclaiming just how magnificent they are, at least to themselves)…
i was just so happy i could do that all day long…well, sure enough a few days later it turns out that rubbing myself the right way all day – damn near caused 3rd degree burns down below…
went with the neosporin for care – cause i didn’t know about eucerin existed…
player to player ( 😛 ), thanks for the tip…
something to keep in mind THCJ…a while back mister bo nateman was wondering when i would get my old tired backside back to nuevo york…
i think the time is coming close…i remember you heading back there a while back for a family event…
hopefully something this fall brings you back again…i’m thinking once the new season schedule gets released i’m gonna pick a couple of games close together to come back to new york for and enjoy…it would be pretty perfect if you happened to be in the area at the time…
My grad-school mentor has a book release in October that I may come back for. I assure you that if I come back during the NBA season I will be screaming FUCK JOEL EMBIID into a microphone outside the Garden and making myself available for KB meetups.
oh hell yeah monsieur Geo. Make sure you give us a head’s up.
Guys, don’t underestimate the health benefits of a good orgy with lots of toys. And a little tape cleaner goes a loooooooong way.
Godspeed, Evil Donte.
Yes, gents. Keep on keeping on.
A Harvard study showed men who ejaculated 21 or more times a month enjoyed a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer.
Evil Donte is a great nickname, or should i say knickname. 😀
How does it fare on the Knicks all time nickname list?
New song i’ve been playing on repeat mode!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09FgFvriASs
Cyber, I would say the top historical Knickname belongs to the top historical Knick: Walt “Clyde” Frazier.
Trying to think of other players with memorable monikers. Kenny “Sky” Walker, obviously. “Dollar” Bill Bradley. Calling Willis “The Captain” feels like it shouldn’t quite count, as that’s his title more than his Knickname. Who else? “Linsanity” was less referring to Jeremy Lin than to the phenomenon around him. People call Gallinari “cock” and “rooster,” but I feel like that came up much more in his later stops than here.
Ha, that’s true, it was Miss India (who I met at a diamond gala I was dragged to while visiting a friend in India). She gave me her number, unsolicited, but I was married so I didn’t call her. My friend, though, threw a party for me on my last night and invited her. She came…along with her very angry boyfriend, who stared daggers at me the whole night. I focused on the beauty next to me instead, who I hit it off with, and at some point Miss India came and literally stood between us at the table to talk to me while her boyfriend got even more pissed off. It was nuts, but hilarious even in the moment. It was like living in Bizarro World. Maybe I should be in India and not Mongolia. At the moment I’ve only got Eucerin Dreams…
Geo, all hail! So glad you and your friend finally “reconnected.” Calling out your own name is pretty solid if it’s been many years in the desert, I think. Jowles does it even when it’s only been a couple days.
Sorry to hear that, Noble. Given what Clarence testified, maybe polyamory would have been the answer….
It didn’t catch on outside of KB but Shawne “Extra E” Williams was an all time great.
“Oak” is just a shortening of his name, but it’s also one of the most accurate (and evocative) nicknames ever.
The tune is great Cyber. Thanks for sharing. I had the pleasure of seeing Karen O right up front with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs a couple decades ago and still have a crush. That show was great… McCarren pool…. Sonic Youth opened.
Ay, that’s the rub.
Don’t forget about Truck Robinson. We used to call Louis Orr the Stringbean.
Yeah, those are the top, Alan. The Captain, Clyde, Dollar and Sky. And Oak too, Raven.
Cock or Rooster for Gallo it’s because that’s what “gallo” means in italian. Well, in portuguese too, but with only one L.
Extra E is great, Hubert. Maybe Novakaine is another great nickname.
That must have been great indeed. Yeah, it’s easy to have a crush for Karen O because she’s great. 😉
Sonic Youth opening for Yeah Yeah Yeahs twenty years ago!? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? At least for my generation, it should. 😛
One word: Jorts
Heads will roll was in every Brooklyn bar without fail around that time. If they wuz hip, heads will roll. Sonic Youth was awesome.
Jorts!!! Those were the times! LOL
Spree is a great nickname too. Now i’m starting to think that i find all the Knicks nicknames to be great. 🙂
Jorts
Speaking of Karen O – has anyone read Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman? It’s an oral history from most of the major players in the early 2000s nyc scene.
I know that this is a completely unsolicited recommendation of a book that came out 7 years ago, but it’s a really great read.
The Pearl is up there.
From the previous thread (which many of the rest of you also do):
Downtown Doogie Brown says:
August 6, 2024 at 22:32
“Life is pretty good set to Blue Danube.”
I’m really glad that you seem happy again, Clarence Beeks!!! 🙂 What does this mean, though? I mean, of course I know “Blue Danube.” I’m just not certain how your life is set to it.
Of course, nothing against Grimes, but it’s not like I’m worried about him becoming a star or something for his post-Knicks team, like I was a little bit about Quickley (but not RJ).
Saw the movie based on the book. Pretty dope.
Yeah but that’s like his 4th best nickname behind Jesus, Black Jesus, and Black Magic.
Can we consider DWTDD a nickname because I’ve always been fond of that.
When I was like 17 ish I was hanging out with this really cool lesbian who worked for Gokart records on st marks (punk label). She was in love with this lesbian punk band, the Lunachicks(mainly the drummer squid) and we’d get to some fun shows in the late 90’s. One night, and a highlight of my life, we got into this underground basement party where Debbie Harry was celebrating her 50th birthday party. My little brain and septum have been deviated since. Talk about girl crushes. It was cool to see the scene pop a little in the 2000s after Juliani did his best to murder joy. Still remember when he pushed the unhoused folk in Penn station onto the streets in the sub zero dead of winter. Bad juju.
I was at that show, as well! Went two nights in a row, IIRC.
Karen O was a spell caster, for sure. But the queen of that era imho was Amanda Tannen, the bassist for stellastarr*.
Heads Will Roll is decades ago? Ay caramba. The first time I saw them was at Brownies when I was in college and they were about a million miles from opening for Sonic Youth at that point let alone the other way around. She seemed like she was legitimately off her meds out of her mind and I don’t remember the spitting beer and stuff playing all that hot in the moment. Still, time was you’d go to a Cat Power show for the 50/50 chance she’d spaz out and this was a sure thing.
Werk.
“Werk”?
I liked Pete vescey’s derogatory nicknames…like…”invisiBill”…for bill cartwright….
Goddammit, I can’t believe I forgot about Jorts.
I’ve let everybody down, myself most of all. I’m so sorry, guys.
I can’t believe you guys have forgotten the “Human Eraser,” Marvin Webster. RIP
nicknames are just so damn silly…seriously, like a bunch of kids…
The Dude abides.
That’s a great story Rama. Thanks for retelling it.
For many years, Geo, that was all we had… Anytime I see a roster from 2015-2020 I wonder about my sanity
Xavier ” X-Man” McDaniels
Open couple > Single in your 30s > Long term monogamous relationship