Jonathan Macri
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Dean of @KnickFilmSkool . Girl Dad. Recovering lawyer. ✍️ Substack Knicks fan? Download the Autograph App and get rewarded for your fandom. Use code KFS 👇
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If anyone needs a little levity today, here’s an actual text exchange between me and my wife just now:
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SOURCES: Starting at PG for the New York Knicks tonight, Isabelle Ava Macri
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Take it in, Knicks fans. You have the best offense in basketball.
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I feel so bad for Mitchell Robinson, who tried to play basketball today but couldn’t because Joel Embiid took him out of the last game with several non-basketball plays.
i feel so bad for embiid. beyond trying to just be on the floor, he tried to make big plays - the brunson pressure, the layup attempt - and match the knicks physicality and just couldn’t quite do it.
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The Knicks made us crawl through 500 yards of shit smelling foulness tonight before we tasted the sweet freedom of this Quickley, RJ, Knox, Obi & Mitch lineup.
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Fuck all the way off.
Joel Embiid says the refereeing at the end of the game was "f--king unacceptable"
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RJ Barrett: “I’m proud of us laying a foundation for the future, getting the Knicks back on the right track.”
Adds, “Shoot, I’m 20. I’m hoping to be here for a long time”
Sounds excited for what’s in store moving forward.
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If Immanuel Quickley was a drug we’d all be dead by now.
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It’s a shame the Nets are 3-4 because it would be so nice to have two good teams in New York for once.
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This is fascinating. The Knicks did NOT need to move this much salary to give Brunson a four-year, $100 million deal. It would seem that there is something more than Brunson at play here.
The Knicks are trading center Nerlens Noel and guard Alec Burks to the Pistons, sources tell ESPN. The Knicks will unload $19M more in salary, clearing the way for cap space to try and sign free agent guard Jalen Brunson.
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To every Knicks fan who has experienced a good deal of suffering since the 90’s, Josh Hart feels like a figment of our imagination.
Can’t be real.
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The Knicks just came up huge in the clutch to beat the Clips on the road, in a game LA was fully healthy and trying, to get a win they desperately needed with real stakes on the line.
This just fully hit me.
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8 points in 8.9 seconds happened on my 12th birthday party.
I’ve waited nearly three decades for something to happen that would make up for it.
It was worth the wait.
(I still can’t breath)
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Keep an eye on the Knicks starting lineup for tonight. Hearing a change is being considered.
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Knicks up 30, have a single lax defensive possession...and Mike Miller calls a timeout.
INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS.
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I’d like to belatedly congratulate Knicks Hall of Famers Jason Kidd, Tracy McGrady and Dikembe Mutombo while we’re at it.
Kevin Garnett becomes first Brooklyn Net elected to Hall of Fame
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Disheartening to see the voters recognize a guy on a last place team, playing with zero stakes, over a kid who was positively instrumental on a playoff team. Knicks are a 9-10 seed without him. There is no universe where Quickley shouldn’t be on the 1st Team. None. Absurd.
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Are people seriously upset about the Rivers deal? The Knicks (who, by the way, no one is dying to come play for) got a 28-year-old rotation player for # roughly $1 million per year over what his minimum salary would be.
Folks, I think our standards may be a *weeee* bit too high.
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Tom Thibodeau just compared Julius Randle’s leadership and work ethic to what he saw from Patrick Ewing in the 90’s.
It be like that.
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Say it with me now:
THIS
FUCKING
TEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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Congrats to the 2023 NBA Champion Denver Nuggets!
(And s/o to the only team who didn’t lose a game to them this season, the Knicks :-)
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Immanuel Quickley is the youngest Knick to have a 30-point triple double. Clyde had been the youngest.
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It’s not just that Immanuel Quickley has taken over the game. It’s that he’s having more fun than a kid on Christmas morning while doing it.
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51 y/o former player: "the Knicks aren't cool"
31 y/o current player: "the Knicks aren't cool"
19 y/o kid who couldn't wait to get drafted by New York: "Yo, I'm a Knick!"
🤔🤔🤔
Kevin Durant’s radio remarks Knicks “aren’t a cool team right now” to league’s young players who don’t know history are eerily similar to my Kenny Smith interview.
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What is the Knicks starting point guard doing. I don’t recognize these things.
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Immanuel Quickley is special.
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Think the Mitch effect isn’t real? New York is currently leading the league in fewest opponent points in the paint with 38.5 a game.
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Taj calls this season & playing for the team he grew up rooting for "surreal." Says that when he and Thibs were in Chicago, they'd talk about the 90's Knicks & Jeff VanGundy, and what it would be like to be on a winner there someday.
Guess dreams do come true after all.
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A surprise from the Knicks: Obi Toppin is probable to play!
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RJ with his career high 32...on 21 shots. At the age of 20.
If you’re not paying attention, now would be a good time to start.
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It took 154 games played together, but Julius Randle and RJ Barrett have finally scored 30 or more in the same game.
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Several reasons why the Knicks wouldn’t have won this game last season, but No. 1 for me is Jalen Brunson. What a difference a point guard makes.
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Through less than 5 minutes of fake basketball, I feel confident in saying the Knicks have attained an upgrade at the point guard position.
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RJ Barrett: “Whether its me personally or the team, we just get disrespected all the time.” Says the team pays it no mind, but at the same time, it makes winning that much more fun.
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Derrick Rose says he wasn’t worried about RJ Barrett after a rough first half... “48 minutes of basketball”.
Did call RJ a perfectionist, and mentioned he has to talk to him during the game sometimes to get him out of his own head. Rose’s vet leadership can’t be understated.
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Tom Thibodeau, echoing all of New York: “I love this team”
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Knicks have 2 All-Stars they signed to non-max contracts in free agency. Not sure if that’s ever happened before, but I’m quite certain it won’t ever happen again, at least not with anything close to the current CBA rules and contract structures.
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20 years of utter misery to get to Immanuel Quickley.
And it was worth it.
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I get complaining about Thibs. He makes it easy sometimes.
But after 23 games last season, the Knicks were 4-19 with the worst net rating in the NBA. Nobody gave a shit. No development was happening. The team was the laughing stock of the sports world
They're 10-13. Just sayin.
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Horrifying to me that Julius Randle will get praised for that quarter because the threes fell. New York has a backup 4 that also hits 3’s and does none of the tomfoolery that is largely responsible for New York being down 16. Turnovers, lazy D, outright bad D…the whole package.
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Good morning. The Knicks can clinch a playoff spot tonight.
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Can’t confirm anything is done, but hearing some rumblings on the Gordon Hayward front...how would Knicks fans feel about three years, $70 million?
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CARMELOOOOOOO AN-THONY has made the NBA’s all time 75 greatest players list! Congrats!!!
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Evan Fournier has single handedly set the “Not All European NBA Players are Soft” movement back decades.
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What a season. Tough way to end it. Nothing to hang heads about, not after this fight.
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Breen with a nice line in response to the trivia question:
“Porzingis, ahh...I forgot about him”
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Totally makes sense that ESPN, which continues to prop up the people that have the most attention-grabbing takes meant for a populace that gets dumber by the day, would let go of their best and smartest NBA analysis.
What an absolute disgrace. Guess JVG should have yelled more.
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The real-time leap RJ Barrett is taking is quite a thing to behold.
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Who are these smart Knicks.
Several reports linked Andre Drummond and the Knicks. But, as of earlier this week, there hadn’t been a significant push to acquire Drummond. More here:
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It’s so painfully obvious that Obi Toppin has become the most important component for the Knicks to function at a high level on offense. Put him with a couple solid guards and let him cook.
(The defense ain’t bad either)
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Seeing Theo Pinson and Obi Toppin give Leon Rose a high five after that Derrick Rose bucket is my new happy thought.
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Feel like the Knicks might have something with this Quickly / Obi thing
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Orlando’s arena is cheering louder for Obi Toppin than Atlanta’s half empty arena was cheering for their own team last night.
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Part of why I have so much respect for the Heat is because of those 90's battles & how Mourning & Ewing fought so damn hard every game.
But for all his passion, Zo wasn't 1/100 the dirty player that Bam Adebayo is. Riles should be disgraced at what
#HeatCulture
has now become.
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Pretty sure this is the “All Knicks Twitter Lineup” out there right now...Frank, IQ, RJ, Obi & Mitch.
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I am declaring Frank Ntilikina the Knicks answer at point guard.
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Immanuel Quickley has been one of New York’s best three players this season, and that isn’t a controversial statement.
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This is the 9th time in 24 games this season that RJ Barrett has shot above 50 percent from the field. He did it 10 out of 66 games last season.
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IDK if he’s going to get it or if the Knicks will give it to him, but Alec Burks is absolutely worth someone’s full mid level. Not a team in the league he can’t help. And this one desperately needs him.
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Rewatching the game and it's staggering how many good early looks the Knicks missed that they've been automatic on seemingly for months
I know there's stuff down the stretch to be frustrated about but there's a good argument NY lost this game in the first 8 minutes, not the last
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The New York Knickerbockers - owners of the 26th ranked defense 8 days ago after the Dallas debacle - currently have the 10th ranked defense in basketball.
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New Knick Quentin Grimes mentions that he's been working with former Knick and current Memphis HC Penny Hardaway over the last 2 months. Also says he's already received texts from RJ Barrett & Immanuel Quickley.
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Immanuel Quickley: "Outside of basketball, I don't really do anything anyway."
This was in response to whether he's gotten a chance to explore New York since being drafted, but still...if you wanted a gym rat Knicks fans, you got him.
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I thought this was Michael Rapaport for a second.
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All the excitement will be over Quickley - and justifiably so - but the notion that Knox might come out of this preseason with confidence in his shot is as big a development for the team as anything.
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Might be getting ahead of myself here, but having watched this team for more years than I care to admit, it feels like we might be at the beginning of a snowball forming that could gain speed fast and lead to alllllll sorts of unpleasantness.
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Julius Randle is getting MVP chants.
Never, ever, ever thought we’d hear them again after last season. But here we are.
Credit to him. He’s more than earned it.
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Kyrie Irving - an offensive genius with the ball in his hands who has proven he can play a significant role in helping lead a team to a title - is probably my least favorite person in the NBA. Basketball and value stuff aside, I would really rather the Knicks not trade for him.
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Meanwhile, Quentin Grimes has assured himself of a rotation spot for the rest of the year. Thibs has no choice. Needs to play. Some defensive and ball control issues but has more than made up for it.
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Asked about what it's been like to play with Frank Ntilikina, Immanuel Quickley calls Frank a selfless teammate that puts the team first and works extremely hard. Says he's one of the best teammates he's had.
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Dennis Smith Jr. in at backup PG. 10 Knicks have now played. Frank Ntilikina is not one of them.
I can’t believe we’re still doing this shit.
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I’d like to have a word with all the people who were in their feelings about Immanuel Quickley after yesterday’s game.
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Knicks going down 24 at home in what feels like a must win game is certainly something the front office should consider when deciding how to approach this trade deadline.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Four-time All-Star guard Kemba Walker has agreed to a contract buyout with the Oklahoma City Thunder, and upon clearing waivers, plans to sign with the New York Knicks, sources tell ESPN.
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OH FUCK YES
Lights please, the Knicks are shining again. Julius Randle and RJ Barrett cover SLAM 232.
Black Metal:
Gold Metal:
Original:
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I am getting evicted after the noises that just happened.
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Nice of Kenny Smith to ignore that the 2012-13 season ever happened.
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