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...thoughts of a Knick fan like myself inevitably drift back to the game, and how fate has done it to us once again...
Every year, fate finds a new way for the Knicks to lose. This year, the combined pressure of Camby’s personal situation and the backlash surrounding recent anti-Semitic comments by point guard Charlie Ward may have proven too much for the Knicks to overcome. That and the offense of ex-Knick Chris Childs, who never played this well in the Garden when he wore the home uniform...
...With the Knicks, there’s always something. Last year, Ewing was injured during his final Knick playoff run, and the Indiana Pacers’ frontcourt dominated the glass to advance to the NBA Finals. The year before that, Ewing tore his achilles during the playoffs, but the Knicks miraculously made it to the championship series, anyway. Fans began to talk about how much better the team was without Ewing-until San Antonio Spurs’ tandem of Tim Duncan and David Robinson made them realize that sometimes, even a sullen, aging center is better than none...
Comebacks make for great stories, but sometimes the stories can be too great. Michael Jordan retired after three championships, and then came back in 1996 for three more. Maybe I'm just a biased and bitter Knick fan who didn't like seeing the window of opportunity slam shut, but I can't help but believe that Jordan did the NBA a disservice in returning. The league had begun to promote its young talent in Jordan's absence, but then focused solely on His Airness again once he decided that a decade of torturing me wasn't enough...
...dream. A dream that one day tiny basketball coaches will be judged by the content of their character and not by how ludicrous they look stepping into the conflagrations of men twice their size. JEFF VAN GUNDY'S dream is still unrealized. In 1998 the 5-ft. 9-in. Knick coach rode out a New York-Miami playoff brawl attached like a poodle to the leg of 6-ft. 10-in. man-mountain Alonzo Mourning. It wasn't his finest moment, but he escaped unharmed. This time, he wasn't so lucky. On Martin Luther King Day, Van Gundy tried...