Happy Birthday Dick Barnett

He should have patented that left handed jump shot. Bring back the Knicks glory days. Many more Happy Returns Dick Barnett.
 
[quote="William T. Cicio" post=399334]He should have patented that left handed jump shot. Bring back the Knicks glory days. Many more Happy Returns Dick Barnett.[/quote]
He doesn't need a patent as nobody else shoots like that. ;) :)
 
[quote="bamafan" post=399339][quote="William T. Cicio" post=399334]He should have patented that left handed jump shot. Bring back the Knicks glory days. Many more Happy Returns Dick Barnett.[/quote]
He doesn't need a patent as nobody else shoots like that. ;) :)[/quote]

Nobody else could ever shoot like that. Physically impossible lol. As a kid, I can remember me and my friends trying to mimic that shot. No one could even come close. Happy birthday Dr Barnett. Another member of arguably the most cerebral team(on and off the court) in the history of basketball.
 
From the Monte vault. Had no idea he was from Gary, Indiana, hometown of The Jacksons, [attachment=1631]E7792C7E-F5C6-4133-86D1-94D5749739F3.jpeg[/attachment] [attachment=1632]95D5C333-65DB-438F-A4A8-FCDAFEE4C6FB.jpeg[/attachment]
 
[quote="Monte" post=399340][quote="bamafan" post=399339][quote="William T. Cicio" post=399334]He should have patented that left handed jump shot. Bring back the Knicks glory days. Many more Happy Returns Dick Barnett.[/quote]
He doesn't need a patent as nobody else shoots like that. ;) :)[/quote]

Nobody else could ever shoot like that. Physically impossible lol. As a kid, I can remember me and my friends trying to mimic that shot. No one could even come close. Happy birthday Dr Barnett. Another member of arguably the most cerebral team(on and off the court) in the history of basketball.[/quote]

It was the legs. Knees almost together, and legs bent at at least a 45 degree angle. Impossible to get any air like that.

Funny, in those days, we all studied the moves of our favorite players as well as their mannerisms.
 
Definitely my favorite sports team(s) of all time were those two Knick championship teams of 1970 and 1973. If I had to pick a favorite between the two, I think I'd go for the 1970 team with Barnett as the other guard and Cazzie, Mike Riordan, Dave the Rave Stallworth and Nate Bowman off the bench, mainly because they brought the championship home first which was an incredible thrill for me as a fanatical teenage Knick fan. Dick's fall back baby jumper was a classic. All the best to you Dick. Hope you are enjoying your golden years with lots of great memories!
 
[quote="NCJohnnie" post=399362]Definitely my favorite sports team(s) of all time were those two Knick championship teams of 1970 and 1973. If I had to pick a favorite between the two, I think I'd go for the 1970 team with Barnett as the other guard and Cazzie, Mike Riordan, Dave the Rave Stallworth and Nate Bowman off the bench, mainly because they brought the championship home first which was an incredible thrill for me as a fanatical teenage Knick fan. Dick's fall back baby jumper was a classic. All the best to you Dick. Hope you are enjoying your golden years with lots of great memories![/quote]

Same boat as you. First win was a little more special. Both great teams though. The big question when the Knicks traded for Earl The Pearl was whether or not he and Clyde could play together. Not only did they play well together, but they thrived. Most of that credit goes to The Pearl, who was "the man" on the Bullet teams, and adjusted his game to fit in seamlessly with the Knicks. When those are the first teams you ever watched as a kid, the bar is set very very high. Since then, I have yet to see any NBA team play with the same kind of cohesiveness those Knick teams. Maybe one of the reasons I don't enjoy watching the NBA any more, I was spoiled as a kid.
 
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The Knicks basically moved NBA basketball into the limelight as a mainstream sport. Few of us have much of a recollection of the Celtic championship teams that preceded the Knicks, mostly because games weren't televised. The championship game was often aired on Saturday afternoon, pre-recorded as part of the ABC Wide World of Sports. The Knicks taking the city by storm after trading Bellamy for DeBusschere, which allowed Reed to play center, plus the development of Frazier and Russell along with Bradley made the Knicks incredible.

Barnett I believe was the number 2 pick in the draft, not exactly a slouch, but on that team, he is often not remembered by Knick fans as the great player he was. .
 
Wishing Dick Barnett a Happy Birthday. He was truly a very good basketball player as evidenced by his accomplishments:
In 1955 ' his team played Oscar Robertson's Crispus Attucks team for the Indiana State Championship. The very first time that two all Black high schools played for the championship.
Three time All American at Tennessee State.
Three time NAIA Champion. ABL Champion with George Steinbrenner's Cleveland Pipers.
1970 NBA Champion with the Knicks.
Fifteen year Professional Basketball career.

However, the lesson young athletes should take from his life is what he understood and accomplished outside of basketball. He tore his achilles in 1967 while playing for the Knicks. He said that this lead him to realize that he had to prepare for life after basketball.

He did this by:
Getting a Masters Degree from NYU in Public Administration.
Getting a Doctorates Degree in Education from Fordham University.

He was also a Professor in the Sports Management Department at St Johns for four years.

He has shown himself to be a Role Model on the court and off.
 
Fantastic memory of those Knick teams, loved '70 more. Dick B was so good at scoring and bringing those legs close in like that was not to be replicated. After '73, I lost interest in the NBA and frankly the Knicks too, though from '65 to '75 I was an avid Knicks fan. I followed them only casually during the Ewing years.

Happy Birthday Dick!

Red Holzman was the driving force, his "see the ball, see the man" defense was a pleasure to watch. His "hit the open man" offense was unselfish basketball at its finest. The ball almost always ended up with the best open shot in the sequence. No chucking it up from anywhere with a guy draped on you. If you did that Red sat you down. No one on that team was hung up on individual stats, it was all about the team and winning.

What a brilliant team, right down to Dayton U's own Donnie May, Ohio State's Bill Hosket and our own John Warren (2.5 ppg)

Interesting Phil Jackson was not on that team, but he was on the '73 team.

I am old enough to remember when Knicks were coached by Dick McGuire/Eddie Donovan and had Howie Komives, Walt Bells Bellamy and Dick VanArsdale and lost a lot. The Dave DeB trade along with Holzman turned it all around.
 
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Once again, the correct answer is Tom Thacker, the only player to compete for NCAA, ABA, and NBA championship teams.
 
[quote="BrookJersey Redmen" post=399367]Fantastic memory of those Knick teams, loved '70 more. Dick B was so good at scoring and bringing those legs close in like that was not to be replicated. After '73, I lost interest in the NBA and frankly the Knicks too, though from '65 to '75 I was an avid Knicks fan. I followed them only casually during the Ewing years.

Happy Birthday Dick!

Red Holzman was the driving force, his "see the ball, see the man" defense was a pleasure to watch. His "hit the open man" offense was unselfish basketball at its finest. The ball almost always ended up with the best open shot in the sequence. No chucking it up from anywhere with a guy draped on you. If you did that Red sat you down. No one on that team was hung up on individual stats, it was all about the team and winning.

What a brilliant team, right down to Dayton U's own Donnie May, Ohio State's Bill Hosket and our own John Warren (2.5 ppg)

Interesting Phil Jackson was not on that team, but he was on the '73 team.

I am old enough to remember when Knicks were coached by Dick McGuire/Eddie Donovan and had Howie Komives, Walt Bells Bellamy and Dick VanArsdale and lost a lot. The Dave DeB trade along with Holzman turned it all around.[/quote]

Cardiac or back problems.
 
[quote="Beast of the East" post=399369][quote="BrookJersey Redmen" post=399367]Fantastic memory of those Knick teams, loved '70 more. Dick B was so good at scoring and bringing those legs close in like that was not to be replicated. After '73, I lost interest in the NBA and frankly the Knicks too, though from '65 to '75 I was an avid Knicks fan. I followed them only casually during the Ewing years.

Happy Birthday Dick!

Red Holzman was the driving force, his "see the ball, see the man" defense was a pleasure to watch. His "hit the open man" offense was unselfish basketball at its finest. The ball almost always ended up with the best open shot in the sequence. No chucking it up from anywhere with a guy draped on you. If you did that Red sat you down. No one on that team was hung up on individual stats, it was all about the team and winning.

What a brilliant team, right down to Dayton U's own Donnie May, Ohio State's Bill Hosket and our own John Warren (2.5 ppg)

Interesting Phil Jackson was not on that team, but he was on the '73 team.

I am old enough to remember when Knicks were coached by Dick McGuire/Eddie Donovan and had Howie Komives, Walt Bells Bellamy and Dick VanArsdale and lost a lot. The Dave DeB trade along with Holzman turned it all around.[/quote]

Cardiac or back problems.[/quote]

Van Arsdale was lost in the expansion draft for Phoenix and became a very good player, with nearly identical stats to his twin brother Tom, from my recollection.
 
[quote="panther2" post=399366]Wishing Dick Barnett a Happy Birthday. He was truly a very good basketball player as evidenced by his accomplishments:
In 1955 ' his team played Oscar Robertson's Crispus Attucks team for the Indiana State Championship. The very first time that two all Black high schools played for the championship.
Three time All American at Tennessee State.
Three time NAIA Champion. ABL Champion with George Steinbrenner's Cleveland Pipers.
1970 NBA Champion with the Knicks.
Fifteen year Professional Basketball career.

However, the lesson young athletes should take from his life is what he understood and accomplished outside of basketball. He tore his achilles in 1967 while playing for the Knicks. He said that this lead him to realize that he had to prepare for life after basketball.

He did this by:
Getting a Masters Degree from NYU in Public Administration.
Getting a Doctorates Degree in Education from Fordham University.

He was also a Professor in the Sports Management Department at St Johns for four years.

He has shown himself to be a Role Model on the court and off.[/quote]

Great job Panther! The 1973 team may have been the smartest NBA team in history, with Barnett, Bradley (Rhodes Scholar, Princeton) and Jerry Lucas (4.0 GPA at Ohio State) among others.
 
think Barnett was off the team by '73; but your point is well taken, Jerry Lucas had a photographic memory; he would go on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (from NYC) and have the Manhattan telephone book memorized Johnny couldn't stump him (Young-ins we once had big fat thick telephone books!)
 
[quote="Beast of the East" post=399370][quote="Beast of the East" post=399369][quote="BrookJersey Redmen" post=399367]Fantastic memory of those Knick teams, loved '70 more. Dick B was so good at scoring and bringing those legs close in like that was not to be replicated. After '73, I lost interest in the NBA and frankly the Knicks too, though from '65 to '75 I was an avid Knicks fan. I followed them only casually during the Ewing years.

Happy Birthday Dick!

Red Holzman was the driving force, his "see the ball, see the man" defense was a pleasure to watch. His "hit the open man" offense was unselfish basketball at its finest. The ball almost always ended up with the best open shot in the sequence. No chucking it up from anywhere with a guy draped on you. If you did that Red sat you down. No one on that team was hung up on individual stats, it was all about the team and winning.

What a brilliant team, right down to Dayton U's own Donnie May, Ohio State's Bill Hosket and our own John Warren (2.5 ppg)

Interesting Phil Jackson was not on that team, but he was on the '73 team.

I am old enough to remember when Knicks were coached by Dick McGuire/Eddie Donovan and had Howie Komives, Walt Bells Bellamy and Dick VanArsdale and lost a lot. The Dave DeB trade along with Holzman turned it all around.[/quote]

Cardiac or back problems.[/quote]

Van Arsdale was lost in the expansion draft for Phoenix and became a very good player, with nearly identical stats to his twin brother Tom, from my recollection.[/quote]

I feel like there should be a Dick Van Dyke or Harry Van Arsdale(Blvd) joke in there somewhere
 
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