In my mind, Jason Terry- fondly known as "Jet", will always be a Dallas Maverick.
Sure, he's with the Brooklyn Nets now, with fellow thirtysomethings Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Joe Johnson, and Andrei Kirilenko. He's got a Russian Billionaire-out-of-a-James-Bond-flick to help back up his bravado.
"Jet" may have met his match recently, though.
In a event at Chelsea Piers, Knicks guard JR Smith said that was positive that the Knicks would win the NBA Title this coming season.
Back in 2010, Jason Terry, then a Mav, went so far as to tattoo an image of the Larry O'Brien trophy on his bicep to show how sure he was that Dallas would win it all. Terry was a perfect foil to Dirk Nowitzki's quiet, more unassuming leadership style in those days. Had the Mavericks had 2 vocal leaders, they might have ended up like, err, the Lakers of the early 2000s.
Jason Terry has responded to Smith saying that the Knicks could maybe win the "Rucker Park title", referencing the popular Harlem, New York basketball court (155th and Frederick Douglas Boulevard) which has produced many an NBA cager (Satch Sanders, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Kenny Anderson, Rafer Alston aka "Skip 2 Ma Lou", etc). The Nets and Knicks have been going at it in the media over the past summer, sparking the reigniting a rivalry that, in recent years, has resided on the mellow side of things. Either the Nets, or the Knicks, have been downtrodden at one point or another in the NBA standings over the last few seasons, so much so that the rivalry hasn't been all that competitive.
So maybe Jason Terry isn't a Maverick anymore, but to Mavs fans like myself, he'll always be the feisty guard who torched the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the 2011 NBA Finals when Dirk Nowitzki had gone cold. Pair that with DeShawn Stevenson's "You Can't See Me" waves from Game 6 and what you get is an indelible image of swagger that, unlike JR Smith's claims- has, as of now, been backed up.
The Knicks certainly have the tools to win, but to "win it all"? I don't know. It seems a bit premature for that.
Newsflash- The Miami Heat are still intact.
And so are Terry's Brooklyn Nets.
MC
Friday, September 13, 2013
NBA- Guarantees?
In my mind, Jason Terry- fondly known as "Jet", will always be a Dallas Maverick.
Sure, he's with the Brooklyn Nets now, with fellow thirtysomethings Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Joe Johnson, and Andrei Kirilenko. He's got a Russian Billionaire-out-of-a-James-Bond-flick to help back up his bravado.
"Jet" may have met his match recently, though.
In a event at Chelsea Piers, Knicks guard JR Smith said that was positive that the Knicks would win the NBA Title this coming season.
Back in 2010, Jason Terry, then a Mav, went so far as to tattoo an image of the Larry O'Brien trophy on his bicep to show how sure he was that Dallas would win it all. Terry was a perfect foil to Dirk Nowitzki's quiet, more unassuming leadership style in those days. Had the Mavericks had 2 vocal leaders, they might have ended up like, err, the Lakers of the early 2000s.
Jason Terry has responded to Smith saying that the Knicks could maybe win the "Rucker Park title", referencing the popular Harlem, New York basketball court (155th and Frederick Douglas Boulevard) which has produced many an NBA cager (Satch Sanders, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Kenny Anderson, Rafer Alston aka "Skip 2 Ma Lou", etc). The Nets and Knicks have been going at it in the media over the past summer, sparking the reigniting a rivalry that, in recent years, has resided on the mellow side of things. Either the Nets, or the Knicks, have been downtrodden at one point or another in the NBA standings over the last few seasons, so much so that the rivalry hasn't been all that competitive.
So maybe Jason Terry isn't a Maverick anymore, but to Mavs fans like myself, he'll always be the feisty guard who torched the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the 2011 NBA Finals when Dirk Nowitzki had gone cold. Pair that with DeShawn Stevenson's "You Can't See Me" waves from Game 6 and what you get is an indelible image of swagger that, unlike JR Smith's claims- has, as of now, been backed up.
The Knicks certainly have the tools to win, but to "win it all"? I don't know. It seems a bit premature for that.
Newsflash- The Miami Heat are still intact.
And so are Terry's Brooklyn Nets.
MC
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