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Opening Night Game Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: New York Knicks vs. Cleveland Cavaliers 10/22/25 7:00pm

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Re: Opening Night Game Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: New York Knicks vs. Cleveland Cavaliers 10/22/25 7:00pm 

Post#541 » by Synciere » Wed Oct 22, 2025 10:55 pm

Guano wrote:This is the night kat loses his job to Hukporti.


Madness in here I tell you.
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Re: Opening Night Game Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: New York Knicks vs. Cleveland Cavaliers 10/22/25 7:00pm 

Post#542 » by Synciere » Wed Oct 22, 2025 10:56 pm

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yabu and kat ? dear lord


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Post#544 » by TKKnicks1 » Wed Oct 22, 2025 10:57 pm

When is the last time anyone from Inside the NBA ever said the Knicks are going anywhere let alone the NBA finals. Wow! I really hope this team doesn't embarrass themselves this year.
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Post#545 » by Synciere » Wed Oct 22, 2025 10:58 pm

Capn'O wrote:
god shammgod wrote:i look at kat and mikal more like charles smith and monty williams


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:rofl: the only possible response


Jeez Louise?!?
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Post#546 » by Synciere » Wed Oct 22, 2025 10:58 pm

TKKnicks1 wrote:When is the last time anyone from Inside the NBA ever said the Knicks are going anywhere let alone the NBA finals. Wow! I really hope this team doesn't embarrass themselves this year.


Are we ignoring our overall history out of jest or is it willful naivety?
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Post#547 » by NoDopeOnSundays » Wed Oct 22, 2025 10:59 pm

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god shammgod wrote:mitch out...i still won









No extension, Huk starting game 1, could be the end of Mitch's time in NY if Huk looks good. It's IHart all over again, you'll be hating on Ariel soon enough. Sad.


mitch has proven himself in the playoffs over and over. he's not easy to replace. you know it's true. i'm not even arguing this sh*t anymore. if you say otherwise, you're just lying. if huk looks good, it's cool. we need two defensive centers. i wanted horford here. he might have demanded to start. and if that's what it took they should have done it. instead they overpaid a fat precious who can't play defense. make it make sense.



I have accomplished my goal for tonight's opener, got you to type out more than 2 sentences.


Just wait till Yabu gets down to 275lbs, we'll be fine then.
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Post#548 » by god shammgod » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:00 pm

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ctorres wrote:I was looking forward to Inside The NBA being gone. I did not expect them to be involved through ESPN tonight. They are massively overrated.

Kenny can stay, but Shaq and Charles might hurt the game more than help. We need guys who actually enjoy watching the game to comment on it.




I think this will be their last season to be honest.

It's really Shaq, he's the worst. The show was fine before he showed up, after he came around it just became this forum in TV form.


it's just barkley really. he's the talent. you could put him with a lot of guys and he'll still be funny.

if someone was smart up there they should go after teague or lou will and spank when this ends. someone like that. people like the show because it's funny. we don't need to see dwayne wade or whoever up there.
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Post#549 » by jvsimonetti0514 » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:01 pm

ctorres wrote:I was looking forward to Inside The NBA being gone. I did not expect them to be involved through ESPN tonight. They are massively overrated. They just get paid millions to BS wit each other throughout a broadcast.

Kenny can stay, but Shaq and Charles might hurt the game more than help. We need guys who actually enjoy watching the game to comment on it.


Last season was the final straw for me. Kinda realized that they were everything wrong with nba coverage. They have their moments and can be funny but they’ve spent way too much time defending their careers and era without being ambassadors for the game. Shaq is the biggest villain of the group when it comes to that. Dudes considered a top 10 player in history and he’s mad insecure about everything other big man in the game. I’ve got a bunch of issues with silver but the one thing that he was 100% right about is the nba needing better media.
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Post#550 » by robillionaire » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:02 pm

jvsimonetti0514 wrote:
ctorres wrote:I was looking forward to Inside The NBA being gone. I did not expect them to be involved through ESPN tonight. They are massively overrated. They just get paid millions to BS wit each other throughout a broadcast.

Kenny can stay, but Shaq and Charles might hurt the game more than help. We need guys who actually enjoy watching the game to comment on it.


Last season was the final straw for me. Kinda realized that they were everything wrong with nba coverage. They have their moments and can be funny but they’ve spent way too much time defending their careers and era without being ambassadors for the game. Shaq is the biggest villain of the group when it comes to that. Dudes considered a top 10 player in history and he’s mad insecure about everything other big man in the game. I’ve got a bunch of issues with silver but the one thing that he was 100% right about is the nba needing better media.


Honestly for me it was their overwhelming unbearable presence at the all star game
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Post#551 » by Capn'O » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:02 pm

It's happening!!!!!!!

Synciere wrote:
Capn'O wrote:
god shammgod wrote:i look at kat and mikal more like charles smith and monty williams


jesus

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:rofl: the only possible response


Jeez Louise?!?


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Post#552 » by Guano » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:03 pm

Synciere wrote:
Capn'O wrote:
god shammgod wrote:i look at kat and mikal more like charles smith and monty williams


jesus

mpharris36 wrote:jesus


:rofl: the only possible response


Jeez Louise?!?


Sham id and1 your post but im too lazy to search it out but not too lazy to acknowledge its greatness.
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Post#555 » by thebuzzardman » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:04 pm

ctorres wrote:I was looking forward to Inside The NBA being gone. I did not expect them to be involved through ESPN tonight. They are massively overrated. They just get paid millions to BS wit each other throughout a broadcast.

Kenny can stay, but Shaq and Charles might hurt the game more than help. We need guys who actually enjoy watching the game to comment on it.

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Post#556 » by Zenzibar » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:04 pm

Wow, we're here!

Excited to see Mike Brown tonight and exactly what management vision to morph the Knicks into a higher level team looks like.

We as fans complained about the minutes last year, about Mikal speaking out and here we have a reknown coach with the perfect philosophy to compliment what Thibs left behind.

Thibs got us here, and I'm grateful. But Thibs philosophy wore out the starters and the bench wasn't prepared for the playoff grind.
Mike Brown tries to develop the team collectively, where more players are gelling and closer to the imapct the starters have.

This reminded me of when Torre replaced Showalter and led by their captain, the rest is Yankee lore.


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Post#557 » by NoDopeOnSundays » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:05 pm

god shammgod wrote:
NoDopeOnSundays wrote:
ctorres wrote:I was looking forward to Inside The NBA being gone. I did not expect them to be involved through ESPN tonight. They are massively overrated.

Kenny can stay, but Shaq and Charles might hurt the game more than help. We need guys who actually enjoy watching the game to comment on it.




I think this will be their last season to be honest.

It's really Shaq, he's the worst. The show was fine before he showed up, after he came around it just became this forum in TV form.


it's just barkley really. he's the talent. you could put him with a lot of guys and he'll still be funny.

if someone was smart up there they should go after teague or lou will and spank when this ends. someone like that. people like the show because it's funny. we don't need to see dwayne wade or whoever up there.




I'm just a Shaq hater, all the stories that come out about the stuff he's done in locker rooms would have gotten him stabbed or shot if I were his teammate and he did it to me. Hearing his takes on TNT, and knowing all the foul **** he's done, I can't listen to that dude talk about anything. Plus, he sounds like his mouth is full of gauze when he speaks.

Teague would be a much better hire than Arenas, I don't know what any network is thinking getting him involved, he's entirely too unstable to have on TV.
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Post#558 » by god shammgod » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:06 pm

i can't believe we're back in the era where the leg opening on the pants covers the whole shoe. pants scraping the concrete and picking up dirt as you walk. nah man. i'm good on that.
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Post#560 » by jvsimonetti0514 » Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:09 pm

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jvsimonetti0514 wrote:
ctorres wrote:I was looking forward to Inside The NBA being gone. I did not expect them to be involved through ESPN tonight. They are massively overrated. They just get paid millions to BS wit each other throughout a broadcast.

Kenny can stay, but Shaq and Charles might hurt the game more than help. We need guys who actually enjoy watching the game to comment on it.


Last season was the final straw for me. Kinda realized that they were everything wrong with nba coverage. They have their moments and can be funny but they’ve spent way too much time defending their careers and era without being ambassadors for the game. Shaq is the biggest villain of the group when it comes to that. Dudes considered a top 10 player in history and he’s mad insecure about everything other big man in the game. I’ve got a bunch of issues with silver but the one thing that he was 100% right about is the nba needing better media.


Honestly for me it was their overwhelming unbearable presence at the all star game


Completely forgot about but yeah that was insufferable. It’s like guys you do a halftime show. You’re not reporting the news. You make jokes during the highlights simmer down a little bit.
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