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Stop it, breh. They gave this dude a 5th year with no fukking insurance while being cognizant of his knees giving out in 3 years. I'm not blaming STAT but these fukks knew better.
Stunts, Blunts & Basketball: The 2013-14 New York Knicks Season Thread
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Tarik is my name ✊✊✊
If knicks move Shumpert, they should pair with a bad contract
In priggie we trust 
http://m.nydailynews.com/sports/bas...prigioni-key-knicks-success-article-1.1548895
http://m.nydailynews.com/sports/bas...prigioni-key-knicks-success-article-1.1548895
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Knicks ready to stick with Pablo Prigioni at point guard spot
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Pablo Prigioni gets up for a reverse layup after a steal in a win over the Hawks Saturday. With the Argentine in the starting lineup, the Knicks are 19-3 in the past two seasons.
The Knicks were looking at Toronto’s Kyle Lowry as a potential upgrade at point guard even before Raymond Felton went down last week with a hamstring injury.
Barring an immediate trade, however, the Knicks will stick with veteran guard Pablo Prigioni, who has posted an impressive 19-3 record as a starter over his two NBA seasons. Those totals include a 4-2 mark this year, which is one more win than the Knicks have managed in their other 17 games this season (3-14) entering Monday’s home game against Washington.
“I feel like I’m more in Europe, you know, because it’s the same job that I did there,” Prigioni said after totaling 11 points, six assists and four steals over 31 minutes in Saturday’s 111-106 win over Atlanta. “I feel comfortable, and with more minutes, I get more rhythm, I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands and I don’t know, confidence.”
Despite the Knicks’ success with Prigioni in the lineup late last season — alongside Felton in a double point-guard alignment — Mike Woodson stubbornly has attempted to employ a bigger backcourt this season. That has meant using either Iman Shumpert or J.R. Smith as the starting shooting guard, but both players continue to be mired in offensive funks.
Shumpert, averaging just 6.6 points per game, has been ensnared in trade rumors for weeks, including as part of a potential package for Lowry.
Smith, who is shooting just 33% from the field, sat out the entire fourth quarter against the Hawks in favor of rookie Tim Hardaway Jr.The benching followed a blowup with Woodson — as reported by the Daily News — before Smith’s odd one-shot night in Friday’s loss in Boston.
RELATED: BLOWUP TO BENCHING? COULD SMITH'S SHOOTING STRUGGLES LAND HIM ON PINE?
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Could Prigioni be the answer for the Knicks point guard woes this season?
When Woodson was asked if Hardaway has earned more late-game minutes the coach said, “Without a doubt that could happen. He was great tonight on both ends of the floor.
“J.R. and Iman, I just got to keep working with them and got to pat them a little more and then get them back, because I need them desperately to pick it up and play.”
Woodson added that Prigioni also “was great all throughout (Saturday’s) game,” but the 36-year-old Argentine was at his calming best as the Knicks pulled away in the fourth quarter. He nailed a 3-pointer, completed a steal and layup and executed a behind-the-back pass to Andrea Bargnani for another three as the Knicks extended a four-point lead to 15.
“Pablo’s playing great. He’s able to create some tempo for us, got us in a lot of pick-and-roll action. He’s playing really well,” Amar’e Stoudemire said.
“They’ve got the European game going on,” Carmelo Anthony added of Prigioni and Bargnani, who added 23 points against Atlanta. “The last couple of nights it’s been very effective at times, especially with Bargnani being in the pick-and-roll, and Pablo knowing how to take his time on that and find Bargnani when he’s popping out.”
With Felton expected to be out up to three weeks, Prigioni ()(10 points on Saturday) will continue to man the point guard spot.
“At this point we don’t know what’s going to happen with the lineups, with guys being out, guys being injured. You don’t know who’s going to be in there in the fourth (quarter),” Anthony said. “The last couple games it’s been Pablo, Bargnani, Amar’e’s been out there a little with us. It’s been a lot of mixing up. We’ve got to adjust to that."
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Smith — unlike almost every other free agent who signed in July — did not become eligible to be traded Sunday, the traditional Dec. 15 marker.
Under a quirk in the new collective bargaining agreement, Smith is eligible to be traded Jan. 15 and the way things are going, the Knicks would have to explore it.
Smith is one of seven free agents signed in July who won’t become trade eligible for another month because their teams are over the salary cap and they signed for 120 percent more than their prior season’s salary.
http://nypost.com/2013/12/16/knicks-cant-deal-smith-until-mid-january/
Under a quirk in the new collective bargaining agreement, Smith is eligible to be traded Jan. 15 and the way things are going, the Knicks would have to explore it.
Smith is one of seven free agents signed in July who won’t become trade eligible for another month because their teams are over the salary cap and they signed for 120 percent more than their prior season’s salary.
http://nypost.com/2013/12/16/knicks-cant-deal-smith-until-mid-january/
On a serious note though...
J.R Smith is a loser, and it's so sad. I've mentioned this before...
He reminds me of one of those New York High School stars who is a bit of a knucklehead, involved w/ the wrong people, and not focused even though he has so much potential and athleticism. You root for him, hope he sees the opportunity that he has before him but he never gets out of the hood and becomes a janitor for Christ the king HS mentoring HS stars about how he had his chance but lost it and they need to believe in themselves... *Que Lifetime movie music*
It's just perplexing that he mad it to the NBA and I still feel like he lost.
We need try to shop him when we are able to (Jan 15th). One day he'll be cut from an NBA team... Won't be able to get work from any NBA team even on the veteran's minimum and he'll show up to MSG and be on some 5 heartbeats and approach Tim Hardaway Jr. in a wrinkled & soiled Knicks uniform like... "I'm BACK! Nights like this..."
Then when Timmy walks away form the nikka...he'll get tight and be like, "How does it feel to BE ME!"
why in da hell the knicks do that
Full heel turn for JR 
On a serious note though...
J.R Smith is a loser, and it's so sad. I've mentioned this before...
He reminds me of one of those New York High School stars who is a bit of a knucklehead, involved w/ the wrong people, and not focused even though he has so much potential and athleticism. You root for him, hope he sees the opportunity that he has before him but he never gets out of the hood and becomes a janitor for Christ the king HS mentoring HS stars about how he had his chance but lost it and they need to believe in themselves... *Que Lifetime movie music*
It's just perplexing that he mad it to the NBA and I still feel like he lost.
We need try to shop him when we are able to (Jan 15th). One day he'll be cut from an NBA team... Won't be able to get work from any NBA team even on the veteran's minimum and he'll show up to MSG and be on some 5 heartbeats and approach Tim Hardaway Jr. in a wrinkled & soiled Knicks uniform like... "I'm BACK! Nights like this..."
Then when Timmy walks away form the nikka...he'll get tight and be like, "How does it feel to BE ME!"
Some dudes are just uncoachable sociopaths. He isnt the first.
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