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<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Big Nasty:</div><div class="quote_post">It is hard to pinpoint what is happening in the NYC, but something is astir.
"Buzz" seems too pedestrian a word. Rather, it is that feeling that compels one, in the morning, to pick up the paper and see when that movie is playing. To call a good friend and see if they'd like to go downtown and stroll through that new exhibit. To try and be the 19th caller on the radio giveaway, to get those seats. That sense that if you don't get off your butt and take out your wallet, you'll miss something special.
It is that way again in the Garden, where the crowds don't need video prompting to cheer anymore, where Spike Lee again holds court in the crowded postgame hallway. No disrespect to the Nets, but even if they move to Brooklyn -- "I could walk to where they're talking about putting up the arena from my office," Lee says -- it won't be the same to this town as when the Knicks matter. As they are beginning to matter again.
There is no way of knowing how this will turn out. The Knicks, after all, are just fighting for the last playoff spot in the JV conference at the moment. Isiah Thomas knows that this is just a beginning, that the real work may not begin until the offseason. But everything Thomas has done so far has built on what he did before. First, make a trade -- any trade -- to show that, after three years of torpor, that the Knicks had an organizational pulse and would do a deal. Done, with Clarence Weatherspoon going to Houston for Moochie Norris. Then, change the franchise's focal point. For the last three years, it's been Allan Houston's $100 million contract, which he could never live up to in Gotham unless he came out for warm-ups wearing pinstripes. By bringing in Stephon Marbury, Thomas changed the story.</div>
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"Buzz" seems too pedestrian a word. Rather, it is that feeling that compels one, in the morning, to pick up the paper and see when that movie is playing. To call a good friend and see if they'd like to go downtown and stroll through that new exhibit. To try and be the 19th caller on the radio giveaway, to get those seats. That sense that if you don't get off your butt and take out your wallet, you'll miss something special.
It is that way again in the Garden, where the crowds don't need video prompting to cheer anymore, where Spike Lee again holds court in the crowded postgame hallway. No disrespect to the Nets, but even if they move to Brooklyn -- "I could walk to where they're talking about putting up the arena from my office," Lee says -- it won't be the same to this town as when the Knicks matter. As they are beginning to matter again.
There is no way of knowing how this will turn out. The Knicks, after all, are just fighting for the last playoff spot in the JV conference at the moment. Isiah Thomas knows that this is just a beginning, that the real work may not begin until the offseason. But everything Thomas has done so far has built on what he did before. First, make a trade -- any trade -- to show that, after three years of torpor, that the Knicks had an organizational pulse and would do a deal. Done, with Clarence Weatherspoon going to Houston for Moochie Norris. Then, change the franchise's focal point. For the last three years, it's been Allan Houston's $100 million contract, which he could never live up to in Gotham unless he came out for warm-ups wearing pinstripes. By bringing in Stephon Marbury, Thomas changed the story.</div>
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