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It Was 1973, and the Knicks Were Heading to Game 5 …

Lifelong fans reminisced on the team’s last championship win. “When the Knicks won, it was like a different New York City,” one said.

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Dave DeBusschere in the 1973 N.B.A. Finals. The Knicks forward’s tenacious rebounding helped propel the franchise to its only two championships.

Has There Ever Been a Crazier Sports Moment for New York? Actually, Yes.

13 June 2026 at 15:00
In the spring of 1994, the World Cup arrived, the Knicks were great and so were the Rangers. And in the middle of it all, an infamous White Bronco chase.

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Just as the World Cup arrived in New York, the 1994 Knicks made a run the N.B.A. finals, hunting their first championship in decades. Sound familiar?
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