FANATICS OLD SCHOOL CLASSICS DANCE-SPIRIT TEAM COMPETITION, Group 1

At Knicks Fanatics, we don’t play.  This is “Knicks Spirit Week” and we are going to start it off with a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. 

Forget about the Miami Heat’s heart stopping championship Dance Team.  Sure the most popular dance team in the NBA is the perennial best, but they root for the D-Wade posse not the D’Antoni disciples.  We like the Knicks dance team too.  Despite their more respectably family friendly attire (they don’t dress like they live on the beach often enough), we can imagine them in a shirts and skins water-basketball game.

But we can’t spend the entire season sleeping with the enemy’s cheerleaders on our minds.  That’s not in keeping with the spirit of Knicks Spirit.  And MSG doesn’t give us enough of the Knicks women to get us through a season of even minimal stress and distress. So, in order to keep our spirits up during the upcoming season, I’m proposing we get our own cheerleaders.

What would our cheerleaders do? Cheer us up silly. Lift our sprits. Our cheerleaders would pop up at the most appropriate (and inappropriate) times on this blog and in our Live Blogging (LBEs) coverage of games.  They will help keep us engaged, if not to our girlfriends, at least in our efforts to love our Knicks through thick and thin, better or worse (worse will never happen – Knicks Spirit Week, remember?).

I’m thinking that for this year’s cheerleading job, we need to choose amongst the best Spirit Movers in history.  I’m thinking, on this blog, we are fans of the classics, we are fans of the best.  We need Mega-cheerleaders and what better place to get them than back at the Old School – believe me when I say the creator has always been a fantastic architect of human form.  I’d put my old school team up against today’s best anytime.  Move over Beyonce, you’re a Nets fan anyway, aren’t you?

So this is the deal.  We have received about 24 portfolios from some of the most talented (most of them can really dance) and beautiful women in not-too-long ago popular culture.  It is our task to check them out, look them over, evaluate their talent for our purposes and then choose the final 12 who will lead us into the 2009-2010 season.  The portfolios are divided into two groups.  Group 1 will be introduced in a couple of seconds.  Group 2 will be introduced on Tuesday.  They all will return on Thursday when you will be asked to vote and the 12 with the most votes will become our Knicks idols for the year.

And finally, thanks to the Fanatic Connoisseurs of Fine Spirits for the recommendations to the team.  Good work folks.  (Warning: if your boss catches you lingering over this post, tell her you’re looking for a new secretary; if your girlfriend catches you, tell her how disgusted you are at the blogger who did this to one of your favorite blogs. If that doesn’t work, I can’t help you. )

So without further ado, I present to you the ladies who look to join the Fabulous Fanatics Dance-Spirit Team.  LGK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“It’s Knicks Spirit Week”

What’s Up NYK Fanatics around the world and blogiverse?  It’s eight days before training camp and the perpetual rush of pro basketball excitement.  Can’t you feel it.  I can hear it coming closer — the melodic sound of crossover dribbles, popping nets, cheering Fanatics and sexy body-popping diversions, flying t’s whizzing through the air, a rhyming hall of famer and an old school announcer crooning about how players, like Nate Robinson,  should do it his way.  Eight days and it is on like David Kahn.

Ladies and Gents, pre-season is like spring for the B-Ball fan; it is a time of hope and a time of promise.  Pre-season is the time of the greatest unknown.  After a period of personnel moves and decisions, including the draft, free agency signings, trades, retirements and un-retirements, we enter the period of the great what’s up with that?”.  It is a time of certain uncertainty when you just don’t really know how good or how bad the season will be. It is so exciting.

As for the 2009-2010 Knicks, not knowing is really exciting.  We don’t know shyte.  We don’t know who our starting five are. We don’t know when Nate Robinson will sign.  We don’t know if our near-all-star power forward will sign. We don’t know how our potential star, imported from Italy, will come back from back injury.  We don’t know if our star coach will put the “D” back in defense. We don’t know whether those players wearing Protege sneaks or an entire team of expiring contracts will have career years.  We don’t know whether LeBron James is pulling our leg to empty Cleveland’s pockets.  We don’t know how much better than us the teams vying for the 6th-8th Eastern Conference playoff spots are.  We don’t know jack and that is good.

   

So this is a perfect time to hope for the best and see the Knicks as we really are – great fans, happy, happy, happy to root for our Knicks for another season. Now is the time to celebrate the great possibilities of a glorious future. It is time to encourage the best of our players.  Right now, LeBron is the enemy.  Kobe sucks.  Chris Paul is a jerk and Blake Griffin is an alien from another planet.  Our guys in Orange and Blue are the ones we root for, the ones we want to take us to a championship.  They are the ones who need the collective power of our super Fanatic energy so that we can sleep better at the end of game nights, knowing that our guys did their best and their best ended in more than moral victories. 

Therefore, with the power God invested in me, I declare this KNICKS SPIRIT WEEK. KNICKS SPIRIT WEEK is a time when we give the Knicks unconditional love and support no matter how negatively we may feel about our home team.  It is the time that we can show them love and help them realize their potential. It is the time when we can be assured that our cheers and hopes will not be dashed in the win-loss column.  It is a time for believers.

So, all week long, this blogger will flip his tired script and show mad Knicks love.  You can call this “Happy Week,” “Delusional Week,” “Koolaid Slurping Week,” or whatever, but now I will drink Koolaid instead of Hateraid.  If I don’t bleed Orange and Blue, I won’t bleed at all. 

I encourage you to join me and follow the rules of “KNICKS SPIRIT WEEK” or face the prospects of being subjected to a David Stern Warning or a Goodell Suspension for bringing weapons of destruction onto the blog.  I implore you to not worry, be happy.  The Knicks have the greatest fans, the most patient management and the hungriest expiring contracts in the league.  Now, today, this week, we celebrate our current Knicks in the best way possible.  We pretend everything is alright.

Let’s Go Knicks.