Welcome to Fortuitous Bounce, a semi-regular Knicks blog.
The kids want to know what the bounce is and why it's, in fact, back. Let's be clear, this is our blog's first post, but the bounce may be back. Or it never left. Let's explain.
Brushing aside the surface references to Walt Clyde Frazier's favorite phrase, fortuitous bounce encompasses all things metaphysically Knicks. Since untold numbers of Isiah-era Knicks fans root for their team to actually lose because they see defeat as the best prescription for long-term success (i.e. Isiah gets fired), double meanings seem natural territory for a Knicks blog. Thus fortuitous bounce applies to the following:
- To the luck bounce of lottery balls which brought us Patrick Ewing,
- To Alan Houston's rim bouncing series winner versus the Heat,
- To the bounce in Nat-Rob's step, which may or may not prove fortuitous for the Knicks.
- To the bounce in Eddy Curry's bosom, which may or may not prove fortuitous for the Knicks.
- To the colloquial meaning of bounce which connotes "to leave" (as in "Isiah's getting bounced out of the Knicks GM position was fortuitous," or as in James Dolan saying, fortuitously, "Yo, I have to bounce as owner of the Knicks")
- To the bounce(s) involved in Nat-Rob's 30 or so attempts during last year's dunk contest
- To the fact that the Knicks don't even have the opportunity to have a fortuitous bounce in this year's NBA Draft Lottery because of the Eddy Curry trade.
- To the fact that "bounce," as a swagger-intensive state of being, which several current Knicks embody, may be in the NBA's modern era, inherently fortuitous.
- It's a catchy name.
