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jimbo0618
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Willis Reed - The NYC Icon - RIP😢
Mar 21 2023 02:52PM more by jimbo0618
Tags: LA, Current Events (All tags)

Growing up in NYC, Willis Reed was a legend! He was the symbol of an athlete playing through pain way before Jordan or Kobe! He brought two championships to the City and was the best captain of the Knicks. I am still a diehard Knicks fan regardless of where I live!
I had the pleasure of meeting Clyde Frazier, another one of my Knick idols several years back. He was on the Knicks broadcasting team when they played the Lakers. I got a signed jersey by him.
He was the coolest athlete ever back in the day wearing fur coats and tailored suits! Willis set the standard for the tough big man like Moses Malone and Charles Oakley!

RIP Willis, you will be missed!
      
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PeteMalloy
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Mar 21 2023 06:31PM     link to this

Those are my first recollections of the NBA --- Lakers vs Knicks in the early 70's


Dave Debusschere

Bill Bradley

Willis Reed

Clyde Frazier

Earl Monroe

Henry Bibby



Against our beloved Lakers :


Wilt Chamberlain

Jerry West

Gale Goodrich

Keith Erickson

Elgin Baylor

Pat Riley
Its.All.Good
Murrieta, Inland Empire, CA
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Mar 21 2023 08:15PM     link to this

R.I.P.
InsearchofStarfish
Santa Ana, OC, CA
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Mar 21 2023 08:27PM     link to this

yep...RIP

these names keep rolling on by...seem to pick up some speed as we get older










Justify
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Mar 21 2023 09:16PM     link to this

even as a lifelong Laker fan, I will never forget when the shot up Reed's knee and he came out in Game 1 and shredded the Lakers, but dismay play the rest of the series....RIP Willis Reed
jldsjr1
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Mar 22 2023 08:25AM     link to this

RIP Willis # 19
That's when I really got hooked on the NBA albeit a lifelong Laker fan so 1970 and 1973 were rough.
Shows how tough it was to win multiple titles then based on the team they assembled.
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