Andy Rautins Square Garden

by Sean Keeley on Mar 8, 2011 8:00 AM EST

Justin Bieber. Charlie Sheen. #thingswomensay. These are the things I usually see in my Twitter Trends section.

Imagine my surprise when I see...

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The Knicks cruised to victory over the Jazz Monday night, 131-109. However the game didn't really begin until the 4th quarter when the Knicks started sending in the bench players. That's when the magic happened:

Within minutes, bored fans began chanting for the rookie Andy Rautins. Midway through the quarter, they got their wish, cheering wildly as Rautins approached the scorer’s table.

Rautins logged 5+ minutes, scoring two points, grabbing one board and coughing up three turnovers. But let's not focus on the negative. Let's focus on the fact that, after tonight, there is one indisputable fact.

Knicks fans love Andy Rautins. Even if he has no idea how to change a tire.

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Andy knows how to change a tire.

He just wants to make sure AAA knows how.

Go Orange!

by MBorkowski on Mar 8, 2011 8:48 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

been trying to find video of this

no dice yet

by Menotti on Mar 8, 2011 8:55 AM EST reply actions

I found them talking about it

They don’t say anything about calling AAA, but they talk about how it happened. It was kind of funny. At least, it was funnier than trying to study the Cold War.

http://blog.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/2011/03/fans_chant_for_former_syracuse.html

by SUKells2012 on Mar 8, 2011 12:24 PM EST up reply actions

I watched

the win over the hawks. It was nice to see Andy and Melo bro’ing down on the bench. Laughing, shoving, holding hands

by ryanwk628 on Mar 8, 2011 9:21 AM EST reply actions

Fuck

Andy Rautins is the Brian Scalabrine of the New York Knicks.

Brian Scalabrine currently occupies that role for the Chicago Bulls, but he’s fulfilled that role with Boston Celtics and the New Jersey Nets during his 10-year NBA career. Monday night at the Verizon Center, the Bulls were comfortably ahead, when suddenly Bulls and Wizards fans starting chanting, “Scal-a-bri-nee!”. 30 seconds later, Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau, maybe because he was influenced by the fans or maybe because he just wanted to clear his bench, inserted Scalabrine into the game and the fans erupted. 30 seconds after that, Scalabrine scored on a running bank shot, and cheers were deafening.

Go Tartans!

by voteprime on Mar 8, 2011 10:01 AM EST reply actions

Though Andy Rautins is WAAAAY more stylish in the role:

Go Tartans!

by voteprime on Mar 8, 2011 10:41 AM EST up reply actions

Hopefully Andy is liked better by his teammates than Scalabrine was

Yikes

Go Orange(men)!

by SUmonkey on Mar 8, 2011 11:04 AM EST up reply actions

Ok

I have no idea how Twitter works but I may check it out after seeing that the second trend down is #bootyappreciationday….is there something I should be doing for this glorious event?

by Mike Will is DoubleDown on Mar 8, 2011 1:25 PM EST reply actions 1 recs