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Post by commond on Mar 15, 2023 18:17:11 GMT -5
RIP, Bobby Caldwell.
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 16, 2023 4:05:34 GMT -5
Bobby Caldwell was white??? I'll be damned!
Cei-U! Love that song!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2023 14:29:23 GMT -5
RIP to actor Lance Reddick who passed at age 60. He is known for his work in John Wick, the Wire, and was the voice of the dragon Thordak in Critical Role's Legend of Vox Machina.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 17, 2023 15:16:48 GMT -5
RIP to actor Lance Reddick who passed at age 60. He is known for his work in John Wick, the Wire, and was the voice of the dragon Thordak in Critical Role's Legend of Vox Machina. -M I was just going to post this. He was so damn good as Cedric Daniels in The Wire. 60 is just ridiculously young. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 17, 2023 15:22:01 GMT -5
RIP to actor Lance Reddick who passed at age 60. He is known for his work in John Wick, the Wire, and was the voice of the dragon Thordak in Critical Role's Legend of Vox Machina. -M I was just going to post this. He was so damn good as Cedric Daniels in The Wire. 60 is just ridiculously young. Way too young. He is/was also superb in the Bosch series as another chief, Irv Irving. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 17, 2023 17:10:35 GMT -5
Damn, sad news about Reddick. Yeah, he was good in everything, and yeah, way too young.
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Post by foxley on Mar 18, 2023 4:51:47 GMT -5
I mostly knew Reddick from Oz, where he played Det. Johnny Basil, a.k.a. Desmond Mobay; a cop who went undercover in Oz, where he ended up getting addicted to drugs while maintaining his cover and eventually committed a murder, and wound up incarcerated in Oz for real. Needless too say, this was very complex character to portray and Reddick did it brilliantly.
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Post by commond on Mar 21, 2023 16:55:36 GMT -5
RIP to New York Knicks legend, Willis Reed.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 21, 2023 18:28:16 GMT -5
I remember seeing Willis Reed limp onto the court to lead the Knicks in game 7 of the 1970 Finals. I wasn't a big basketball fan then but that was the kind of moment that transcends all sports.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 21, 2023 19:15:58 GMT -5
I was listening to that game, called by Marv Albert, and the Reed moment was galvanic. It was as if he just took Chamberlain and the Lakers out of the game in those first few minutes.
In the NYC area, we couldn’t see it until they reran the broadcast that the rest of the country got to see live. I couldn’t wait that long. What a team: Reed (The Captain, the real one, long before Jeter was even conceived), Bradley, De Busschere, Dick Barnett, Phil Jackson, MIke Riordan, Cazzie Russell, and of course, Walt “Clyde” Frazier.
I know you’re a Blazers fan, but someday, Rob, read “The City Game,” by Pete Axthelm, that parallels that great Knicks season with the story of the Rucker League and guys like Connie Hawkins .
One of the best sports books ever.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 21, 2023 19:46:59 GMT -5
It's likely that I didn't see it live; it may have been on the evening news. As I said, I wasn't a big fan then, but for a young male in a heavily African American part of the New York area in 1970, the Knicks were inescapable. People talked about them in school, they were on the TV news and in the papers. And of course a few years later, Bill Bradley represented us in the Senate.
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Post by commond on Mar 21, 2023 19:54:15 GMT -5
I know everyone remembers him for Game 7, but he had a really nice game. Check out his mid range game for a center, and his soft touch.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 21, 2023 19:56:47 GMT -5
It's likely that I didn't see it live; it may have been on the evening news. As I said, I wasn't a big fan then, but for a young male in a heavily African American part of the New York area in 1970, the Knicks were inescapable. People talked about them in school, they were on the TV news and in the papers. And of course a few years later, Bill Bradley represented us in the Senate. Yes, the Knicks were a true team. Sixty wins, and yet , IIRC, nobody amongst the league leaders in most categories. True teams don’t come along too often, but those Knicks were one of them. |
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Post by commond on Mar 21, 2023 21:04:19 GMT -5
Reed had a season for the ages in ‘69-70 — NBA MVP, NBA Finals MVP, All-Star MVP, All-NBA First Team, NBA All-Defensive First Team. That’s incredible and would have brought him much more acclaim in today’s league. He only played in the NBA for 10 seasons, which makes his accomplishments and the Knicks two championships all the more impressive.
Often lost in the narrative surrounding the 1970 championship is the heartbreak from the previous year where the Knicks lost to the aging Celtics despite having home court. You don’t often see a team bounce back from that type of situation but the Knicks fought back and went on a nice three year run.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2023 12:58:22 GMT -5
The family of Joe Giella posted that the longtime comic artist has passed yesterday (3/21) at age 94.  -M |
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