Rest in Peace, Anthony Mason, Knick

Anthony Mason, the former Knick, died over night from heart problems.  He was just 48 years old.  Mase was probably my favorite Knick during the Riley Era.  I prattle on about the team nature of basketball, and the effort nature of playing D out there.  Anthony Mason embodied both concepts and would have been a good and effective Knick on the Holzman Knicks or any Knick team, ever, because he got it and had the understanding and want to to make any team better.  He had probably surpassed the physically compromised version of Larry Johnson that we traded him for at the time of the trade, and thus I was pretty unhappy about it when the deal was made, not that I don't like Larry Johnson - I do - it's just that Anthony Mason was a KNICK and we can always use more and not less of them.  We still need more Knicks, and we lost this one way too soon - and twice.