Was a good game, my favorite era of NBA Basketball! Kendall Gill was an extremely underrated wing player, very similar to what Jimmy Butler has evolved into today... The Charlotte Hornets bench was underrated deep! Dell Curry, Johnny Newman, David Wingate and Kenny Gattison off the bench....
Seriously. I've seen so many NBA on NBC intros but missed this one. Hilarious, especially with the sped up Flight of the Bumblebee while Hammond hits every bee/bug reference he can. Damn I miss old school ball!
Everyone always talks about the 1993 NBA MVP, if it wasn't Barkley it should have easily been Patrick Ewing. John Starks was the second best player on the Knicks that year and they won 60 games.
The way Ewing is disrespected and never talked about is criminal! The man had the total package for a center. Blocking, rebounding, shooting, with post up moves, and powerful inside. If you hear in this broadcast this was another year he was an MVP candidate. They label him as a failure because of no championship but him and the Knicks always gave teams problems even the Bulls. Yes they lost but Jordan and the Bulls did not just blow out and sweep them those series were always tough, close and there was always a deciding game 7.
The Knicks team took the "unbeatable" Houston Rockets to game 7 in 1994. People gloss over history. Sure, he never got a chip, but he didn't have a super deep bench or a killer from the perimeter. Its kinda like the Pacers, Reggie Miller never won it all, but the team was always in the conversation. Patrick Ewing was a mean, game-changing big man for years. Any team wouldve been lucky to have him.
The Bulls swept them in 91 but you're about them having tough series vs the Bulls. 92-94 were the toughest ones. (Jordan wasn't around for the 94 series but still would've been a war if he was there)
SAS and the Casuals ripped on Ewing ONLY because he didn’t deliver a Championship to New York. The man had quite a remarkable HOF career and what’s amazing was he performed at an elite level playing on both busted knees
I wish the Knicks played Rolando Blackman more during this season. He still had some gas left in his tank and was a much more efficient shooter than Starks. Starks would have been a perfect 6th man with his hustle and energy.
@@lemmiwinks09 Why would he sit Starks for Blackman as if he should've known the outcome of game 7 beforehand? Starks was coming off a 27 point game 6.
Trading Kendall Gill from Charlotte to Seattle for Eddie Johnson was a terrible trade if the Sonics kept EJ, he definitely would've helped the Sonics prevent the upset, and also, leadership and three-point shooting were missing
If the Knicks would've got Ewing one consistent scorer to help during these years they coud've got at least one ring with three or four trips to the finals. If they could've got Johnson before he had back problems who knows? Other than sir Charles, I don't know who was available during this three to four year span. Maybe the glove?
