ESPN 30 for 30: When the Garden was Eden 8 PM

[L.Kizzle]

History of the early 70s' Knicks. Watch Willis Reed knock about 6 dudes heads of in a 1966 scuffle. He was fined 50 bucks.

[Locked_Up_Tonight]

It was directed by Michael Rappaport (sic).

[mattvNJ]

50 then with inflation of now would be the equivalent of 295~ now and it would be the equivalent of us tossing out $8.10 lol

WILD

[CJ Mustard]

@ Bill Russell being called overrated in a documentary glorifying the Knicks. He led his team to five times as many rings as the Knicks entire ****ing organization.

[jlip]

History of the early 70s' Knicks. Watch Willis Reed knock about 6 dudes heads of in a 1966 scuffle. He was fined 50 bucks.

I tuned in too late. Did they show footage of the fight?

[TheMan]

Meh, watching the World Series, will catch some other time...maybe

[L.Kizzle]

Damn is Jerry Lucas and Jerry West beefing, haha. That was a funny exchange.

[jlip]

Walt Frazier was reciting his 1970 game 7 stats of 36pts 7asts 19asts 4stls. I'm wondering if he is aware of the claim that he only had nine assists that game.

[jlip]

Damn is Jerry Lucas and Jerry West beefing, haha. That was a funny exchange.

Yep.

West basically said that Lucas didn't want to admit that Wilt just destroyed him.

[sportjames23]

30 for 30 is the best thing on ESPN.

[L.Kizzle]

Interesting, I think it was Cazzie Russell who said he wondered why Wilt didn't get up on Willis and why did he let him shoot? He couldn't go by him as he was badly hurt. Was this another instance of Wilt being too nice? He didn't want to ruin a good story.

[Rake2204]

Just watched this. Educational and worthwhile. I found a lot of those Knicks to be quite likable. For the most part, I was impressed with how real they were about their accounts. I'm sure there was some glorification, but they kept it pretty real (for instance, Cazzie Russell was awfully up front with the things he did wrong and didn't look to excuse them).

Walt Frazier was reciting his 1970 game 7 stats of 36pts 7reb 19asts 4stls. I'm wondering if he is aware of the claim that he only had nine assists that game.

I'd be interested to hear more about this. The moment I heard him reel off that statline, I immediately thought to how official statistics were sometimes not too full at that point.