I had the privilege and blessing of watching this live. My two favorite teams! 🙌🏾 Also, my favorite players was Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Patrick Ewing! 🙌🏾
My parents told me that they watched this game at the hospital the day before I was born. This was my first introduction to the game even though I had no idea.
One of the most heated rivalries back in the 90s. I miss rivalries like this because of the animosity and hatred towards each other. We need more rivalries like this again besides Boston-Miami. It’s good to see NY-Indiana rivalry revived again. P.S.: the NBA is returning to NBC after next season and I’ll be watching every single game on NBC/Peacock.
This Knicks team was a championship team. They simply ran into a more battle-tested Chicago Bulls team in this series, and that experience paid off all the way to the Bulls third straight championship.
First of 3 straight 60 win teams. The bulls played in the ECF. In fact? The last 4 championship teams. 93,96-98. Faced a 60 win team. In every conference/nba finals. Except the 98 pacers. Who were 58-24! Id say every last team including the pacers? Was championship caliber!
I haven't watched any highlights of this game since it happened. The Knicks played their ass off but just couldn't get the stops at the end. Broke my heart.
crazy stat. woulda been interesting if they woulda met in the 97 ECF how that woulda turned out. Knicks were very good that year and split the season series in 4 very close games. i think the Bulls would won of course prob in 6 or 7 with MJ being the difference as usual, but woulda been a fight
classic series. Really wish MJ neva "retired" in fall of 93. 94 with MJ woulda been scary. They were deeper in 94 compared to 93. 93 bench was weak. 94, they added Kukoc, Kerr, Wennington, Longley etc as well as still having most that 1st 3peat core in tact. I rem being PISSED MJ wasn't there
The thing that fascinates me about this series is that the Knicks were hungry and determined yet the Bulls never fell into complacency (as we saw with prior threepeat attempts where uneasy lay the head that wore the crown).
@@chrisuncleahmad MJ had a killer instinct as the leader and refused to let his teammates lose focus, it would've been interesting to see how 94-95 against the Rockets turn out if MJ's beief first retirement in 1993 didn't happen.
Yup, that's why I do not watch today's game. Men back then looked like men and acted like men. Now we see a bunch of dudes raised by women who don't know how to carry themselves like men. That's the huge difference.
Game 3 of this series was my favorite. They beat the Knicks by 20 in that game with Jordan shooting like crap but making up for it with his defense, passing and free throw shooting. And the Bulls had a couple of face to face situations. Pip vs Starks, then Jordan vs Starks. But Game 3 was the game I knew the Bulls would win this series.
In my opinion when you allow men to be physical "within the rules" it naturally brings out your competitive nature which in turn gives you a better product on the court. NBA is missing that today and ratings are down...
This series I was thinking to myself that the Knicks were just too strong and physical for the Bulls who were more of a finesse team. The Knicks made them prove otherwise. The Bulls were forced to go toe to toe with the big physical NY Knicks.
This was probably the last great Bulls-Knicks playoff series. Sure, their series 1994 was a thriller even w/o MJ, but the Knicks had no chance in 1996, not like in 1992 and 1993.
Judging by how the Bulls almost swept the Heat in 97 ECF, which was a Knicks clone, don't see how the Knicks would beat Chicago.. unless Ewing would turn into Dirk 2011 with going unstoppable, which wasn't gonna happen with Pats knees.. Also the NBA wasnt interested in the Knicks beating MJ in the playoffs at all. Crucial call against the Knicks was bound to happen if it reached game 6 or 7.@@Classicbasketballdvds
I'm sure these videos take a lot of work, but I have no idea what the score of the game is for the last like 10 minutes of the video. It's never on the screen
@@BUPMY1 yeah yet they were far superior than this weak 1993 team. Also remember 1999 was only a 50 game season and the Knicks had new players Latrell Sprewell & Marcus Camby. They needed time to develop together and find a system. The early 1990's Knicks were Patrick Ewing and a bunch of role players who played hack defense
Yall praising this game but wont acknowlede, the Knicks were overrated, and two, distance shooting was horrible in the 80s and 90s. Anthony Mason and Oakley couldnt make a basket outside of 15ft. The game has evolved.
