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New York Hosts NBA Home for the Aging

10/1/2012

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If you’re an NBA player nearing retirement age, no need to worry, the Knicks have a home for you.  The Knicks now have the oldest squad in the league, with veteran players like Jason Kidd, Marcus Camby and our most recent recruit, Rasheed Wallace, listed on the roster.

The Knicks appear to be using a new strategy, if that is what you want to call it. It is about the same as calling the team’s upcoming season as “interesting”.  My guess is the Knick management decided something like this: “Let’s try to gather as many players past their prime as we can, and we’ll tell everybody that we meant to do that. We won’t admit that we didn’t make any awesome trades this summer and that we planned to get rid of Lin anyway.  We will say that we wanted these guys all along and we succeeded in getting them on our team. We’ll say we wanted to go with ‘experience’ and that youth is not all that great after all. I mean sure the other teams will have more energy, speed, endurance, and prime talent but we got experience.”  
So, that is the news spin put on this year’s NY team, it’s all about experience. Now, I think experience is a good thing when it is combined with a team that also has stamina and some star talent at his peak. For example, David Robinson had experience and veteran leadership to combine with Tim Duncan's youthful talent. It's not that older players can't win, it's just that they can't take it all the way. Last year, the Celtics put on a great performance with an older team. But, in the end, they did not have what it takes to get past the younger guys. While, I appreciate the experience of the Knicks squad, I would have preferred younger guys with a different type of experience, such as winning a title. Please comment.
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Wadler
10/2/2012 06:46:45 am

😀 This is very funny!
I heard Magic Johnson still plays a little, maybe the Knicks will pick him up!
I think the Knicks are loaded at power forward and center, when stat gets injured you can have camby and Wallace team up and take his place. Melo will play more 3 then 4 this year and I think they don't want Melo playing down there against bigger guys.
Great post!!!

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DaddyMan
10/4/2012 01:44:47 am

A lot of teams stack up veterans when they make a championship run so looking at what has happened thus far with the Knicks is very exciting. The only part I don't understand, and not to harp on the Jeremy Lin stuff again, but all of these new additions could still have been made and we still could have kept Lin. Are we a better team with all of the new additions without Lin or are we a better team with the same new additions PLUS Lin? That's where I keep bouncing back and forth with in my mind. My choice and opinion is that we would have been better with the same new additions while still keeping Lin.

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Mike V. link
10/4/2012 09:52:12 am

We really should have kept Lin. And the crazy part about is that we could have done every single off season move that we did this year and still have kept Lin. Thanks for posting!

Mike V. link
10/4/2012 09:49:57 am

Yeah that's a funny comment about Magic. I think about if he actually came back sometimes. Thanks for posting!

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Uncle Rich
10/9/2012 09:08:19 am

Super article and great insight! Keep up the great work

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Mike V. link
10/9/2012 09:51:55 am

I certainly will! Thaks for posting!

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