{"id":7806,"date":"2012-05-28T16:02:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2012-05-28T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T21:02:35","slug":"nba-update-the-resurging-new-york-kncks-have-signed-their-coach-of-the-future-mike-woodson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=7806","title":{"rendered":"NBA UPDATE: THE RESURGING NEW YORK KNCKS HAVE SIGNED THEIR COACH OF THE FUTURE, MIKE WOODSON,"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIKE WOODSON, A FORMER\u00a0 1ST ROUND \u00a0DRAFT PICK OF THE NBA IN 1980 BY THE NEW\u00a0YORK KNICKS HAS\u00a0 RETURNED TO HIS ROOTS BY TAKING \u00a0OVER THE HEAD COACHING\u00a0 POSITION OF THE KNICKS AFTER GUIDING THE FRANCHISE TO IT’S FIRST POST SEASON IN SEVERAL YEARS. MIKE D’ANTONI’S UNSUCCESSFUL BID AT THE POSITION CREATED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR WOODSON WHEN THE KNICKS FRONT OFFICE DECLARED THAT D’ANTONI WASN’T THE MAN THEY WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH AS THEIR TEAM LEADER. WOODSON HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL AS A HEAD COACH GUIDING THE ATLANTA HAWKS TO BACK TO BACK PLAYOFF APPEARANCES PRIOR TO ACCEPTING THE ASST’S JOB WITH THE KNICKS. HE HAS HAD A STORIED COLLEGE CAREER, PLAYING FOR BOBBY KNIGHT, WINNING THE NIT IN 1079 ALONG THE SIDE OF ISAIAH THOMAS WHILE PLAYING FOR THE HOOSIERS. ANOTHER ACCOMPLISHMENT PRIOR TO ENTERING THE NBA WAS THE PAN AM GAMES WIN, WHERE HE AND THE UNITED STATES TEAM WON THE GOLD. AFTER BEING DRAFTED TWELVETH IN THE 1ST ROUND BY THE NEW YORK KNICKS, THE 6’5″ GUARD FROM INDIANA, ENJOYED A GREAT CAREER AS A PLAYER IN THE NBA, AVERAGING 19.7 PONITS(PER 36MIN PLAYED), SCORING A TOTAL OF\u00a0 10891 POINTS, 1838 REBOUNDS, AND 1822 ASSISTS \u00a0DURING HIS NBA PLAYING DAYS WITH SUCH TEAMS AS THE, NEW YORK KNICKS, THE HOUSTON ROCKETS, LA CLIPPERS, CLEVELAND CAVALIERS, AND THE KANAS CITY KINGS. <\/strong><\/p>\n

SINCE HIS ARRIVAL INTO THE NBA COACHING FRATERNITY, MIKE WOODSON HAS BEEN KNOWN AS A DEFENSIVE GURU, AND WITH THAT INCORPORATED INTO THE NEW YORK KNICKS PRESENT CULTURE, WHO’S RECENT HISTORY HAS DISPLAYED A JOY FOR SCORING, WOODSON BRINGS BACK THE INTENSITY OF DEFENSE THAT WAS DISPLAY BY THE NEW YORK KNICKS DURING THEIR CHAMPIONSHIP YEARS IN THE 70’S, THAT INCLUDED ONE OF THE BEST OFFENSIVE-DEFENSIVE GUARDS OF ALL TIME, MR. WALTER “CLYDE” FRAIZER.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW HIRE, AND THE MYBOYSAY SPORTS NATION’S \u00a0BASKETBALL ENTHUSIASTS WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU BACK TO THE HEAD COACHING RANKS OF THE NBA.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MIKE WOODSON, A FORMER\u00a0 1ST ROUND \u00a0DRAFT PICK OF THE NBA IN 1980 BY THE NEW\u00a0YORK KNICKS HAS\u00a0 RETURNED TO HIS ROOTS BY TAKING \u00a0OVER THE HEAD COACHING\u00a0 POSITION OF THE KNICKS AFTER GUIDING THE FRANCHISE TO IT’S FIRST POST SEASON IN SEVERAL YEARS. MIKE D’ANTONI’S UNSUCCESSFUL BID AT THE POSITION CREATED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[330,11,8,14,106,1,9,10],"tags":[440,21,405,390],"class_list":["post-7806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball-sports","category-business","category-entertainment","category-most-commented","category-nba-sports-news","category-news","category-us","category-world","tag-mike-woodson","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-total-sports-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}