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Subject: Salem State via Harvard to the Knicks Author: SpuytenDuyvil76 (verily) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 06:10:30 05/13/25 Tue NY Knickerbockers head and assistant coach, Tom Thibodeau and Eric Bunson respectively, learned their basketball on the (not so hardscrabble) courts of Salem MA. Thibodeau played for Salem State, coached there, became assistant at Harvard. Whilst with the Crimson, coach T apparently had less interest in recruiting Bunson père than in playing against him in the summer league. Bunson would go on to play at Temple before (A)raising a son who is the current floor general of the Knickerbockers and (B) following Thibodeau thru the pro coaching ranks. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Excellent piece. Thank you. Author: Valmas (Stoic) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:19:12 05/13/25 Tue Probably haven't heard them referenced as "Knickerbockers" since 1973 - recall a late spring morning of that year when I camped outside the Madison Square Garden ticket office to purchase Eastern Conference Finals playoff tickets; played against a Celtics team that won 68 regular season games. Amazingly enough, the Knickerbockers won that series in seven games; getting a huge contribution from a J.Brunson-type player of that day, Harlemite, Dean "The Dream" Meminger. And maybe they'll do it again! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Salem State via Harvard to the Knicks Author: SpuytenDuyvil76 (sadly) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 05:39:34 05/14/25 Wed For the Celtics, this maybe it for the post-season. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]