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New York Basketball: Jamal Crawford, Allan Houston, Carmelo Anthony, Deuce McBride, Jacob Toppin, Tyler Kolek & John Starks at the Rucker
Jamal Crawford, Allan Houston, Carmelo Anthony, Deuce McBride, Jacob Toppin, Tyler Kolek & John Starks at the Rucker pic.twitter.com/22KwA5JyVE
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Jorge Sierra: Jrue Holiday is now No. 39 all-time in assists after passing Baron Davis last night. Also: Nikola Vucevic passed Allan Houston in scoring and Larry Bird in rebounds 👀
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On if Allan Houston or Latrell Spreewell were the ‘Jimmy Butlers’ of the Knicks’ NBA Finals run in 1999… Charlie Ward: They both are a mix of Jimmy Butler in a lot of ways, but I’m glad that we had both of those guys because they were different. They were both scorers but they worked together as scorers and that’s what made our team successful.
THIBODEAU HAS THE memory of an elephant. He doesn't forget the important characters who have defined his career. He remembers stories from decades ago that have shaped his place in the game. He remembers slights, large and small, that have motivated him along the way. Dressed in his usual gray Knicks pullover before a recent game, Thibodeau can only chuckle when he thinks about the first time he met Jalen Brunson. Rick's son, as he was known then, just 5 or 6 years old at the time, would come into the Knicks locker room after games, imitating then-Knicks stars such as Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell. Thibodeau, who originally worked as an assistant with the Knicks from 1996-2003, knew that the young boy had made an impression within a veteran Knicks locker room.
"You have no idea that he's going to end up being a pro or anything like that, but it was uncanny," Thibodeau said. "Everyone would just crack up. He had all their footwork down, jab steps, everything. "'Do Allan Houston,' boom, boom, boom. 'Do Latrell,' boom, boom, boom. So a lot of fun. He'd come in, he'd down the L for Larry Johnson. He's just a great kid. And then you saw how much he loved the game. Rick would bring him to practice once in a while in the summers. He was in the gym all the time, and he was a sponge."
Julius Randle pulled an Allan Houston, drilling an off-balance, left-corner step-back 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left to give the Knicks a wild 122-120 win at Miami-Dade Arena, their eighth straight victory. “Fate,” Randle said with a smirk, when asked about the shot. “It felt good honestly when it left my hand. I was in the zone I guess.”
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For his part, Grant Hill was more than happy to land in Detroit. After all, this was his preferred destination in the first place: “I just wasn’t excited about Milwaukee at the time,” Hill revealed in a recent podcast interview. “Detroit, you know, they were in a bit of transition. They drafted the year before Lindsey Hunter and Allan Houston at the point guard and shooting guard positions. So I thought I could slide right in at the pa at the small forward position and play along those guys and, kind of build with them.”
Detroit clinched postseason berths three times in that five-year run in teal and maroon, notably worn by Grant Hill, Jerry Stackhouse, Joe Dumars and Ben Wallace. “I think it’s great that people remember some things that we did in that era,” said Stackhouse, whom the Pistons acquired in a trade from the Philadelphia 76ers in 1997. “It wasn’t the glory days. It wasn’t the Bad Boys. It wasn’t the ’04 championship team, but in between that, you had Grant Hill, you had myself, you had Lindsey Hunter and Allan Houston. Terry Mills. You had guys that contributed to taking some ingredients from those Bad Boys.”
Jazz staffers and various figures around the league point most directly at CAA for the whispers that seem designed to push Mitchell toward requesting a trade from Utah, particularly to New York. Jazz personnel took great umbrage to Knicks executives William Wesley and Allan Houston and All-Star forward Julius Randle sitting courtside during Utah's Game 1 road win over the Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs, sources said.
After shooting 30% on 1.7 3-point attempts per game last season, Maxey leapt to 42.7% on over four attempts per game in 2021-22. Since the NBA introduced the 3-point line in the 1979-80 season, only two other players -- Allan Houston and Todd Day -- saw their percentages jump by at least 12% on such a dramatic increase in attempts, per ESPN Stats & Information research. The season it happened for Houston and Day was 1994-95, when the NBA moved its 3-point line back to 22 feet, meaning Maxey is the only player in NBA history with such an improvement from the standard 3-point line.
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