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5,242 days.
That’s how long it’s been since a major 4 pro sports New York team played for a championship, when the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots on February 5, 2012, winning Super Bowl XLVI.
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Since then, the Yankees, Mets, and Rangers have all advanced to their respective championship series, but all won just a single game.
11,679 days.
That’s how many days it’s been since the New York Knicks woke up with a chance to win a championship. That was June 22, 1994. Game 7 of the 1994 NBA Finals against the Houston Rockets. They had two cracks at it, losing Game 6 after John Starks had a pull-up 3 to win it and losing Game 7 by six in Houston.
19,392 days.
That’s how long it’s been since the Knicks were champions of the world. Game 5 of the 1973 NBA Finals. A 102-93 win in Los Angeles against the Lakers. At that time, the Knicks had won two of the last four titles, played in three of the last four Finals, and six of the 27 in league history. It would be unfathomable, at this point, to imagine that this historic franchise would go another 53 years without tasting victory champagne.
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But we all know that’s what happened. Despite the promise and grit of the 1990s, tonight will be just the third time in the last 53 years that the Knicks are one win away from a title, and unlike in 1994, they aren’t staring down the barrel of only road games remaining.
Even if the Spurs show some life and force a Game 6 back in New York, it’ll be the first time since Game 7 back in 1970 that the Knicks will have a chance to clinch a championship at home. As things stand, the Knicks are -500 to win the series on FanDuel, but +172 to close it out tonight as 5.5-point underdogs.
It’s almost too close. For a franchise that has constantly waited for the other shoe to drop, it’s a surreal feeling.
Is it really happening? It’s too good to be true. Everything that’s happened in this playoff run has been a degree of impossible to improbable that makes you shed the feeling of existential dread and really makes you believe this is something different.
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