To be clear about this at the beginning: not all Madison Square Garden’s great villains are also a great player. PJ Brown, for example. He was a good useful player for 15 years of the NBA. He has just finished 14th in the MVP vote a year as a member of the Hornets 2004-05 (and yes, I had to verify that too).
But he became a villain from Garden Pantheon on the night of May 14, 1997, when at first he became entangled with, and then all but the body, Charlie Ward on the ground in the second dying of game 5 of the semifinals of the East Conference, a WWE maneuver that changed that series and cost Patrick Ewing and his best support chose an opportunity in a championship.
In addition, just as important: Not all players who torture and burn the Knicks are automatically a villain. Michael Jordan, for example, caused one hundred meals in his visits to the garden, but the notion that a full house sings “f – mj!” It is as unfathomable as the Pope that are booed in San Patricio, even if it is a sestilla of the Eagles.
A previous generation, a reluctant respect similar to Earl Monroe, at a time when the pearl played for Baltimore’s bullets and was the only player in the league that could be more Frazero in the garden before Diglehtse Dengentsse Witendents in 1971. Brilla, but he made them to ingenuity.