Willis Reed - The Knicks Legend - RIP

Willis Reed, the New York Knicks' geatest player, passed last week. With him at center the Knicks won two won championships. The team has been cursed under the ownership of the amateur guitarist, James Dolan, but Knicls fans old enough had to have shed a teat remembering Reed walking out of the dressing room before the seventh game against the Los Angles Lakers of the 1970 championship. The crowd in Madison Square Garden went crazy, since the hometown center had torn a thigh muscle that had previously kept him out of game six and he was considered unlikely to play in game seven.

Later he said, "I didn't want to look in the mirror twenty years later and say I wished I had tried to play."

A giant.

RIP Captain.

MSG Disgrace

The New York Knicks were one of the original teams in the NBA. Red Holzman coached Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Earl Monroe, Dave DeBusschere, Dick Barnett,Phil Jackson and several other players to championships in 1970 and 1973. The Knicks fell apart in the ensuing years, but they were lucky enough to draft Pat Ewing in 1985 and Pat Riley coached a very good team to a series of pay-off runs throughout the 90s. # 34 Charles Oakley defended the paint for that team. The Knicks came close to victory, however they ran into the Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bills, Houston Rockets, and Miami Heat.

James Dolan purchased the franchise in 1999.

The Knicks descended into purgatory under his ownership and reached a new bottom this last week.

Charles Oakley came to the Garden.

Security followed him from the entrance to his seat.

The Knick legend spoke with fans until security approached him and said he had to leave the Garden.

One of them knocked Oakley off his feet. An altercation erupted between the security crew and the Oak Man, ending up with his being physically ejected from MSG and arrested by the NYPD.

MSG released a video and a statement saying Oakley needed help.

I'm a Celtics fan, but I think Oakley was completely within his rights to defend himself from the abuse of James Dolan and his thugs.

Check out this URL from the NY Post.

http://nypost.com/2017/02/10/msg-bans-charles-oakley-for-life/

Fuck James Dolan.