Love me some Starks and will never get enough of this one. One of the few times MJ wasn't making the poster. One of my fav NY sports moments for sure
Gotta love ESPN's caption saying he "dunks all over Charles Oakley..." Oak man started a Bull so it might be confusing, but I'm pretty sure you can only posterize the
other team
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Still not sure it offsets this...
Nice try Pat... - ( New Window )
Wasn't that the series they went up 2-0, and ended up losing the series 4-2?
Great memories but it sucks when stuff like this from years that weren't even championship years are all we have.
Maybe one day the Knicks will actually be looked at as a contender again. Only been about 20 years since the 99 Finals.
While I agree the Knicks harp too much on non-championship garbage the various MSG buildings have 4 Stanley Cups and 2 NBA Championships not 3. This particular Garden (MSG 4) has only had 3. Which is quite sad. Still think the Knicks let 94 get away.
But, I went from absolutely dismal Knicks teams when I started watching basketball at the end of the 70s to so-so teams led by a dynamic player in King, to a great team built around Ewing and a bunch of scrappy guys. I started out a Lakers fan because I grew up hearing about Alcindor/Abdul-Jabbar and then Magic was drafted.
But, King on the hometown team got me watching them. In the 80s I was a Georgetown fan for one reason only...Ewing. When he was drafted, my time with the Lakers was done and I was all Knicks. There were some ups and downs the first few years. But, it was fun to see how the 90s teams were built and the players grew.
More than anything, I think the Knicks lack of a title boiled down to the decision to let King walk as a FA. After fighting for nearly 2 years to return, he showed he could still play. He proved it at a high level in Washington as an all star. Imagine just a few years of Ewing and King with Jackson as the PG.
Then, you have the revolving door of PGs. I never understood that. Jackson stepped on the floor as a rookie and just made the whole team better. He had uncanny chemistry with Ewing, always knowing where the big man was and how to get him the ball. So, you let him go for Rod Strickland. OK, except, you let Strickland go a couple of years later and he turned into another all star. Then you spend 2 decades looking for a PG, with a couple of good years here and there by an aging vet.
Then, the Knicks had a chance to really rebuild. They throw it away. In the same season, Ewing and Childs had deals that were expiring. They could have let them play out their deals for one final run and then had a ton of cap space. It wasn't bad enough that they traded Ewing before the season for essentially Glen Rice, getting no cap relief. But, then in the season they deal Childs for an old Mark Jackson. Then, to add insult to injury, about 2 games into Jackson's return, they actually give him a 2 year extension, guaranteeing no cap relief. They went from prime position to rebuild to the start of the mess we are still in the midst of.
Great memories but it sucks when stuff like this from years that weren't even championship years are all we have.
Maybe one day the Knicks will actually be looked at as a contender again. Only been about 20 years since the 99 Finals.
Im having difficulty rooting for Dolan, just very hard to root for a team when you can't stand the owner.
But yalls convinced me, I'ma go kill myself instead
Go suck an egg there mr sunshine
It's not called the Worlds Greatest Arena solely because the Knicks and Rangers play there.