Evan recently wrote that, like an abused spouse, one needs to cut themselves off from the Knicks in order to protect oneself emotionally. I couldn't agree more, and came to that conclusion some years ago.
However...
Aren't we allowed to look at photos or videos now and then and remember what the good times were like? Are we entering the dangerous trap of allowing oneself to reminisce and thus re-opening that scar tissue?
I must. (Isn't YouTube great?) Partly for nostalgia sake, but partly to look back on better days in the NBA. Days of true hatred and passion, cold-hearted bad-ass "villians" like Reggie Miller, and gritty, kick-ass teams like the Knicks.
I was a senior in high school. It was spring of 1994. The Knicks were great. Jordan retired and the door was open for a championship. The Knicks got to the Eastern Conference semi-finals and first beat those pesky Bulls who put a righteous scare into them...
Can you imagine the level of emotional devastation we all would have felt if the Knicks lost to the Bulls sans Jordan? It could've happened.
The Eastern Conference Finals brought the Indiana Pacers. Reggie Miller did this in Game 5.
Fucking amazing. That is the definition of "on fire". In particular, that long 3 at 5:40 takes some fucking balls to take. But we were triumphant:
Finally, in the midst of the O.J. insanity, the Rockets finally did us in. It was bittersweet, to come so close and come up short. How short did we come up? This short:
(sigh)... Will I ever love a team again like those Knicks teams?
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Oh it was perfect timing for me, though -- NBA interest peaked; Rockets fan for the randomest of reasons, etc.
Those reasons being anti-bandwagon sentiment over the '86 Mets.
I hear you Walt, I just looked at the roster of the 94 Knicks Team,
the guys we sometimes forget...
the Eric Anderson's, the Rolando Blackman's, the Tony Campbells, the Derek Harper's and his moustache hy. And Herb Williams who is starting his 26th season for the Knicks.
That 94 team had a lot of heart.
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