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The Origin of the Name
"Knickerbocker"
Birth of a Name
THE KNICKERBOCKER NAME...
The term "Knickerbockers" traces its origin back to the Dutch settlers who came to the New World -- and especially to what is now New York -- in the 1600s. Specifically, it refers to the style of pants the settlers wore...pants that rolled up just below the knee, which became known as "Knickerbockers", or "knickers". Through history, the Dutch settler "Knickerbocker" character became synonymous with New York City. The city's most popular symbol of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was "Father Knickerbocker", complete with cotton wig, three-cornered hat, buckled shoes, and, of course, knickered pants. The Knickerbocker name had its first use in the world of sports in 1845, the Alexander Cartwright's Manhattan-based baseball team -- the first organized team in baseball history -- was named the "New York Knickerbockers" or the "Knickerbocker Nine". The Knickerbocker name stayed with the team even after it moved its base of operations to Elysian Fields at Hoboken, N. J. in 1846.(The baseball link may have prompted Casey Stengel to exclaim, "It's great to be back as the manager of the Knickerbockers!" when he was named pilot of the newborn Mets in 1961). Thus, the Knickerbocker name was an integral part of the New York scene when the Basketball Association of America granted a charter franchise to the city in the summer of 1946. As can best be determined, the final decision to call the team the "Knickerbockers" was made by the club's founder, the legendary Ned Irish. Irish's longtime right-hand man, Fred Pondesta, was present at the Knicks' birth and recalls that the name selection was easy, quick and uncomplicated. "The name came out of a hat," says Podesta, now 82 and still a Manhattan resident. "We were all sitting in the office one day -- Irish, (Public Relations Director) Lester Scott and a few others on the staff. We each put a name in the hat, and when we pulled them out, most of them said Knickerbockers, after Father Knickerbocker, the symbol of New York City. It soon was shortened to Knicks." In keeping with another New York tradition, the team's colors have always (except for a brief period in the early '80s) been orange, blue and white...the official colors of New York City. Why "Knickerbockers"? Why not??


Here are some pages of the Knicks Players with statistics...

John Starks # 3   Patrick Ewing # 33   Larry Johnson # 2

Allen Houston # 20   Chris Childs # 1

Charley Ward # 21