Everything You Wanted to Know About the New York Knicks: A Who's Who of Everyone Who Ever Played On or Coached the NBA's Most Celebrated Team

by Michael Benson

Overview

This encyclopedic listing of every man who played on or coached the New York Knicks from the team's inception in 1946 to the present is jam-packed with details on everything from a player's careers statistics to his height, weight, and jersey number. Included is information about a player's life before and after the NBA, college career, and dates of birth and death. Relive the glory days of Bill Bradley, Walter "Cylde the Glide" Frazier, Patrick Ewing, Bob McAdoo, Dave DeBusschere, and all the other Knickerbockers in this comprehensive guide to Madison Square Garden's most famous denizens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589793743
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	09/27/2007
Pages:	328
Sales rank:	409,574
Product dimensions:	6.28(w) x 9.46(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

A lifelong Knicks fan, Michael Benson has written extensively about basketball and is the author of Dream Teams in the Sports Illustrated for Kids series. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Editorial Reviews

Prolific author Benson (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly New York Giants) knows the Knicks. Listed alphabetically, each entry here begins with vital data for the player or coach in question, including college attended, jersey numbers, and birth and death information. Following that is a brief biography. Most are at least three paragraphs long, while biographies of prominent players and coaches (e.g., Walt Frazier, Pat Riley, Dave DeBusschere) are up to three pages long. There are other publications that tell the history of the teambetter-as opposed to separate bios-such as Dennis D'Agostino and Walt Frazier's Garden Glory: An Oral History of the New York Knicksor George Kalinsky's The New York Knicks, but this is a comprehensive book only lacking in additional photographs, especially of the earlier players. An essential purchase for libraries collecting the history of this team or of professional basketball generally.
—Todd Spires

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