SUNS-KNICKS: CATWALKING VIOLATION
So I'm at the World's Most Famous Arena, watching my favorite team as a boy (the Knicks) play my favorite team since my teen years (Phoenix).
First Knicks game. I think it was 1974. My dad took my brother and I. The Knick starters were Walt Frazier, Earl Monroe, Bill Bradley, Dave Debusschere and Willis Reed (all now in the Hall of Fame) and the sixth or seventh man was Phil Jackson. The opponents were the Milwaukee Bucks, who started Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Oscar Robertson (two of the top ten players in league history) and--I think--Lucius Allen, Bob Dandridge and Curtis Rowe. Anyway, that was the beauty of the NBA when there were about half the teams that exist today.
Great thing about the Garden's p.r. staff: they hand out a "Photo Tip Sheet" to us scribes to let us know what celebs are in the house. Tonight's sheet includes eighteen names, eight of whom are designated as "models". Spike Lee is here, but he's not on the sheet. They've sort of retired his number.
Patrick Ewing is here under the affiliation "Knicks Legend". I would have written "Knicks Legend/Model Connoisseur".
For your enjoyment this evening, I'll try and feature a different model in each blog entry tonight. For my entertainment, too, of course.
The Game
If you think counterintuitively, which I like to do, you have to go with the Knicks tonight. Because everything is slanted against them. Two nights ago the 'bockers gave up 27 unanswered points at Miami, which is believed to be a league record. And one night before that the Suns outscored the Minnesota Timberwolves 31-2 during one stretch of the game.
I'm going with the Knicks tonight.
Speaking of 31-2, should the Suns win tonight that would be their record in their past 33 games.
I like the Knicks.
The Suns scored 76 first-half points at Washington last night.
Knicks cannot lose. You think I'm kidding, but I'm not.
Finally, the Suns currently lead the NBA in FG %, FT %, 3-point % and scoring. Never has an NBA team led the league in all four categories.
Knicks. Pick the Knicks. It'll be close, but this is the Knicks' seventh game of the World Series. For Phoenix it's Wednesday night and they're pissed that they have to fly out to Milwaukee right after the game.
KYLE McALARNEY UPDATE
Last night Notre Dame announced that its senior starting point guard was expelled for the semester, which is pretty much SOP for that institution. That may sound harsh to some outsiders considering that McAlarney is a "good kid" and that all he did wrong was have a joint in his car.
Simply put, though, them's the rules. And Kyle McAlarney was not in his first semester there. He knows the rules.
The good news for McAlarney, though: If he's smoking weed, he is totally ready for the NBA Life.
I must admit I'm a little surprised by how much negative press this move is getting. Really? With all the columns people write about what's wrong with sports and how student-athletes get away with murder (that's still just a figure of speech...for now), here's one school that stuck to its established rules, that refused to curry favor just because the offender was a high-profile athlete, and they're still getting ripped.
I'm moving to New Zealand. Who's coming with me?
As Promised
Our model du blog entry: Alhia Chacoff
http://www.boutiquemodels.com/models/images/largeformat/alhialarge2.jpg
Update
Knicks 29, Suns 26
What'd I say?
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Ck out the BLING on Marbury's ears. Each lobe can send a twin thru college!
Maybe this is my inner xenophobe talking, but doesn't "Alhia Chacoff" sound like a name only J.K. Rowling could come up with? Seriously, isn't she a blodger from Ravenclaw?
I'm pretty sure you can get those earrings for $15.