We waited a very long time for a winter like this, for a weekend like this. It has been a long time that the fortune of the Knicks and St. John’s synchronized like this, as a result of New York Basketball had this sort of tandem, this sort of evening present.
It’s a must to return not less than in 1999 to search out something that appears like. The Knicks went to the NBA last earlier than dropping towards the Spurs of Tim Duncan. The Johnnies went to the elite eight earlier than dropping a 77-74 sorrow within the last of the southern area in Sconie Penn and the Ohio State Buckeyes.
However even it was completely different from that as a result of 1999 was the primary season of the NBA lockout, and the Knicks didn’t even begin to play earlier than February. St. John’s owned the town’s basketball projectors for themselves a lot of the yr.
It was not till April 22, 33 days after the tip of St. John’s season, when Dave Checketts invited Ernie Grunfeld for dinner in Gregory’s to White Plains. The boys had steak for dinner, and checketts gave Grunfeld a pink shift for dessert along with his espresso. The Knicks started their miracle race two weeks later.
