Strike Up The Frickin Band; tell the Drum Majorettes to start practicing because there will soon be “The Mother Of All Parades” taking place in New York City! The New York Knicks are truly on a roll; not only have “MY BOYS” now won four straight games but Team President Donnie Walsh just signed the player guaranteed to take New York Vinnie’s team all the way to the Frickin top!
The “Associated Press” has reported that the Knicks have signed highly sought after NBA Free Agent forward Jonathan Bender to a contract for the rest of the season. Well; he was not truly highly sought after. To be totally honest with you New York Vinnie believes that New York may have been the team to show any interest. However Bender must be very well rested since the last time he played in an NBA game was February of 2006.
Bender played starting in the 1999-2000 season for the Indiana Pacers until chronic knee pain forced him to end his career after playing in just 2 games in the 2005-2006 season. However the season before that was much better for Bender as he played in a whopping 7 games in 2004-2005. The only time “Broken-Down Bender” played anything close to a full season was back in 2001-2002 when he played 78 games and he averaged 7.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per game. Those were the best numbers of his NBA career.
Now Donnie Walsh is incredibly excited about this signing! The New York Team President released a statement that read “Jonathan has worked extremely hard in preparing himself for a return to the NBA. I know him to be a young man of the highest character from my relationship with him that dates back 10 years to his rookie year and I think he will be a fine addition to our team both on and off the court.”
Well he may be a stiff but at least he is a good guy; that certainly is comforting to know that! New York Vinnie is finally starting to get a handle on Donnie Walsh now into his second season as the Team President of the Knicks. New York Vinnie’s Grand Pops used to have a word for guys like Walsh. It’s an old-fashioned word and it is not used to often these days. But the word fits Donnie Walsh perfectly. New York Vinnie’s Grand Pops would have said that Donnie Walsh is full of “Malarkey.”
That’s another way of saying someone is full of bull but “Malarkey” just seems far more fitting in Walsh’s case. He is like a Frickin used car salesman or an old time politician. Mean while he is trying to pull the Frickin wool over all of our eyes. Well Donnie that Crapolla might work in the Frickin sticks of Indiana; but you can’t expect it to fly in “The Greatest City On The Planet” New York City. We did not just fall off a Frickin corn truck My Man; we know our Frickin hoops in NYC and we are Frickin passionate about the Knicks and the NBA.
Now you may remember Donnie was very excited about another young player the Knicks were bringing in this season; Darko Milicic. Walsh told reporters “He was a very skilled player when he was drafted. I think the thing that’s held him back is he’s been thought of as a guy that has to play with his back to the basket. And everywhere he’s been, people have tried to do that. I don’t think that will be the case here. The way Mike (Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni) plays, the fact that he’s a skilled, fairly athletic, long big man who can run the floor and can dribble the ball, shoot the ball, pass the ball, he might fit into this system better. That’s what I’m hoping.”
A reporter asked Walsh if he could he come up with a player that the Knicks Team President could compare Darko to in order to show how much his game might improve by being put in this new system. Walsh said “Nash to a degree. He was a very good player in Dallas and became the MVP of the league in Phoenix.”
Darko Milicic has played in 8 games so far this season and has averaged 2.0 points and 2.5 rebounds per game. Do those numbers look anything like what Steve Nash’s averages are? But “Mr. Malarkey” is never called on this stuff; it’s like the New York City media consider him to be their kindly old uncle!
Well that might fly for others ”Mr. Malarkey” but that kind of Crapolla was the same thing that the guy who preceded you used to pull. New York Vinnie did not buy it from Zeke and I will not buy that smoke and mirrors act from you ”Mr. Malarkey.“ ”Broken-Down Bender” will be another great addition to the Frickin scrap heap you have built since you got here.
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