Everything You Wanted to Know About the New York Knicks: A by Michael Benson

By Michael Benson

This encyclopedic directory of each guy who performed on or coached the recent York Knicks from the team's inception in 1946 to the current is choked with information on every thing from a player's careers facts to his peak, weight, and jersey quantity. incorporated is information regarding a player's lifestyles sooner than and after the NBA, collage profession, and dates of delivery and demise. Relive the respect days of invoice Bradley, Walter "Cylde the float" Frazier, Patrick Ewing, Bob McAdoo, Dave DeBusschere, and all of the different Knickerbockers during this accomplished consultant to Madison sq. Garden's most renowned denizens.

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