Knicks alumni chief John Starks donated scrubs to hospitals Saturday and got a shout-out from Mayor de Blasio at his Saturday press conference. “Thank you to John Starks — he has dished out an assist,’’ de Blasio said. “This time not with a basketball, but with 3,000 scrubs for our health care workers.”
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John Starks
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Born: 08/10/65
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:190 lbs. / 86.2 kg.
Earnings: $24,958,000 ($40,033,986*)
Born: 08/10/65
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:190 lbs. / 86.2 kg.
Earnings: $24,958,000 ($40,033,986*)
Steve Popper: Bianchi’s record as Knicks GM included trading for Charles Oakley, signing Starks, Johnny Newman and Rod Strickland and also signing great future coaches as players – Rick Carlisle and Billy Donovan.
“It’s always going to be a Knicks town. That’s all we grew up on,” Gibson told the Daily News. “What the Nets are doing is great, don’t get me wrong. That’s amazing. But I grew up a Knicks fan. I grew up watching John Starks. Times have changed. But New York is always — you see behind you, they have Knicks hats on.”
DeShawn Stevenson on his high-school-to-NBA transition: “Mine was tough. I feel like I had to grind harder. I didn’t get the same chances as most straight-out-of-high-school guys. I went to a team that had been to the Finals two years in a row and was trying to compete for a championship and they had John Stockton, Karl Malone, Byron Russell and John Starks. We had seasoned vets, so I didn’t play that much. Also, I had a coach who was hard-nosed in Jerry Sloan; he didn’t play any games. I came out of high school and was flashy, so it was an adjustment. I kind of got stereotyped… It was tough, man. Sometimes I would get picked on really bad…”
Enes Kanter: It was an honor to meet the guy who dunked on MJ 🏀💪 #Knicks legend John Starks 🤙 @StarksTheDunk
John Starks: People love to rank NBA eras, so let me be clear — my generation was the best. The way we played the game was incredible. Even if you were watching the game on TV, you could feel the passion on the court. People on the street come up to me all the time and say, “John, we miss that game. We miss the physicality!” Players were getting after it every night. Pro basketball used to be a contact sport.
With all that being said, I don’t want people to forget just how good the NBA was back when I was playing and how hard we competed with one another. On that note, here are the five toughest defensive assignments of my 14-year career. Mitch Richmond: Mitch was a big guard — 6′ 5” and about 220. (I was about 6′ 2″, 185.) He could do it on both ends of the court. He was a solid defender and took pride in it.
