About a month ago, I opened a contest in which P&T friends could submit works of Knicktion to be read, judged, and voted upon by the P&T community. The submissions are in and will be posted daily (sometimes twice daily) for your pleasure. Voting and prizes and stuff will take place once all the entries have been posted. By request, I won't reveal the identities of our submitters until the end (or whenever the authors feel it is appropriate). Well, except for our first submission. Sorry, YuckFou.
A few notes on the pool of submissions as a whole: Some are long, some are short. Some are prose, some are poetry, some are floetry. All were acceptable. None of the submissions have been in any way edited by me (although I'll probably have to play with some formatting), but in some instances, I sent the submission back to its composer for a bit of proofreading. No matter what, please be respectful in the comments. But you knew that
Previously: "Twas The Night of the Big Game"
Take the jump for submission #2.
When Crazy Cocks Attack
It was a cold and gloomy March 17th when Danilo the "Cock" Gallinari turned on the tube on the 26 inch screen in his man cave also known as Mike D'Antoni's basement. Ever since the Knicks gutted their roster to hang out with La La Vasquez the Gallinator has had a few sleepovers arranged by D'Antoni's good friend poppa Rooster. Danilo watched the Knicks mercilessly tear apart the Memphis Grizzlies. With every three pointer that Toney Douglas hit was another dagger to the young cock’s heart. 9 threes later and Danilo decided it was game time.
He decided to bring back the old crew he called up Malik Rose at the studio, hit up Darko Milicic who was in an alcohol induced rage, Nate Robinson for comedic value and Marko Bellinelli (they hang out on the weekend and talk about inconsistent shooting efforts in Italian). This was Danilo's starting 5. The team sat around the dinner table over some of D'Antoni's Meatballs and devised and evil plot to get back at Toney for chasing them out of town. They were going to get him if it was the last thing they would do.
Malik who was obviously brought on the team for his locker room presents, handed out a few candy bars to all of his buddies. Nate started jumping up and down doing 360's off of the couch so Danilo took the child outside to play......
30 minutes later
The team regrouped and Danilo started ranting about D'Antoni's short rotation, about the fact that they traded away his only friend David Lee and now he is stuck talking to Wilson who has absolutely nothing to say. The cock was pissed.
After about a 20 minute Darko tirade the team was fired up. They decided if Toney is actually going to play defense and run through picks they were going to make him pay.
The fantastic five challenged Toney to a mid evil jousting match. Toney accepted but little did he know that Danilo was a trained equestrian. The two faced off in a battle of epic proportions. The crowd was cheering the Knicks city dancers were out and about (everyone knows the kids are better though) and the gong sounded.
Toney took off... lance in his hand
Danilo screamed "Pasta Fagoili" and launched his stallion forward
Toney looked at Danilo
Danilo looked at Toney
It was on!
In one foul swoop Danilo’s ridiculous wingspan clipped the shoulder of Toney Douglas sending him spiraling down off of his donkey.
They match was done Danilo and the fearsome 5 celebrated Douglas's injury... knocking him out of the lineup leaving Anthony Carter as the only 1 guard on the team.
That is all for now...until next time when Toney's attack!