Word: knick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really likes to have a good time. He is not at all hung up by his professional role. He is not personally mean, despite what he may do in public. He is a hedonist with a mischievous sense of humor and fun: his bedroom is filled with toys and knick-knacks and a huge mirror is hung under the canopy...
...recent years the event usually meant bad news for the New York Knick erbockers. Invariably, some sportswriter would point out that once again the pooches drew more spectators to the Garden than did the Knicks, the dogs of the National Basketball Association...
Simple Shuffle. After the Baltimore game, reporters swarmed around Knick Forward Bill Bradley, apparently in the belief that only a former Rhodes scholar could articulate the secret of the team's success. "I've never seen a team pull together the way this one is now," said Bradley. "Pulling together isn't just an effort of will. The important thing is that we're getting to know one another - -personally and in terms of the way we play." Injuries hurt the team but, preaches Bradley, "adversity tends to make a team pull together. Everyone thought...
...Knick Coach Red Holzman believes in tangibles, like the trade he made two months ago that sent Center Walt Bellamy and Guard Howard Komives to the Detroit Pistons for Forward Dave DeBusschere. At the time, the Knicks were fifth in the Eastern Division with an 18-17 record. Many of the team's troubles revolved around Bellamy, who slouched in the keyhole like a huge, 6-ft. 11 -in. question mark, playing won derfully one night and indifferently the next. DeBusschere's arrival allowed gan gly Willis Reed to move from the cor ner to his old position...
...three-time Princeton All-America once said that the emphasis on shooting in the pros was "overdone." Brad ley is now gunning from all angles, has scored 20-plus points in four of the last seven games. Even so, the fact that not a single Knick is among the top-ten scorers in the league attests to Bradley's philosophy of the intangible...