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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Samson Sit-Down: Chris Herring | Author: Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s another Samson Sit-Down. Chris Herring is an author and journalist. He wrote Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks.  You can buy the book now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Blood-in-the-Garden/Chris-Herring/9781982132118 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Their skiff'd have ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

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It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was

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all wrapped up but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and

0:16.0

had a little ribbon on it and I was so gas. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of

0:20.0

big on cycling around my area now so for that one change really.

0:24.0

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:31.0

New York next nothing personal word of the day. It's a Samson sit down and I have been looking

0:56.0

forward to this since the minute I heard about this book we are so lucky to have Chris

1:02.0

Herring an author of a book that if you don't read I don't know you just must not read.

1:07.0

It's called Blood in the Garden the flagrant history of the 1990s New York.

1:12.0

This is 85 down the middle for me and I'm sort of fanboying a little bit because I'm so happy

1:18.0

you're here Chris thank you for joining nothing personal.

1:21.0

Thank you so much for having me David I really appreciate you want to have me on.

1:24.0

Well this was when I saw that you were writing this book you we don't know each other and you were

1:29.0

gracious enough to answer my email which thank you Pablo by the way who gave me your email

1:34.0

address without asking you first I believe so I apologize for that but thank you for responding.

1:39.0

So people who are fans of nothing personal know that my first love is basketball even though I was in

1:44.0

baseball for 18 years and the nicks are my true love and a true love last of lifetime as hard as

1:49.0

it's been to love the nicks for the past 22 years the reality is that the 90s nicks and I was

1:55.0

with them unfortunately I was born in 68 I started being a fan if you can believe it in 74

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when I moved to New York so I missed the championships and all I wanted was a title that's it

2:07.0

and the 90s were the the best era for the nicks I have to start by asking you what made

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