it's something I always wonder of what could have been if it wasn't for that brawl in Miami, that squad with Johnson, Childs, Houston along with the regulars never got a chance to face Chicago in the playoffs. Do you think they would have been able to defeat them in a best of seven?
do you think the 1997 Knicks team would have dethroned Chicago?
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MSGKnickz33
The Gold Mac
im not sure about the knicks but had the magic kept shaq and penny they could have eliminated the bulls. penny owned jordan, he was the one player jordan couldnt even slow down. magic beat the bulls in 95 but they lost to houston in the finals
prime penny >> mgay
prime penny >> mgay
New New York
Quiet Storm
Great Question!
I always felt that we could've gone 7 with them. No way they wouldve handled us the way they handled the Heat in that series against them. Remember we stopped them from making history by beating them the last game of the season preventing back to back 70 win seasons -Allan Houston knocked down that clutch three in Pippens grill!-. I know it seemed as if The Bulls were destined to win those six seasons, but, I have always thought we couldve beat them. Remember we were the only team to beat them each of those three championship seasons, and the only team to beat them twice during the 97 season including one of only three teams to beat them at home!
I always felt that we could've gone 7 with them. No way they wouldve handled us the way they handled the Heat in that series against them. Remember we stopped them from making history by beating them the last game of the season preventing back to back 70 win seasons -Allan Houston knocked down that clutch three in Pippens grill!-. I know it seemed as if The Bulls were destined to win those six seasons, but, I have always thought we couldve beat them. Remember we were the only team to beat them each of those three championship seasons, and the only team to beat them twice during the 97 season including one of only three teams to beat them at home!
King Ewing
Banned
Another one of the many reasons I HATE David Stern and am waiting for the day he is no longer the NBA commissioner.
adamsilver
Rookie
I think we would have, but it is a what-if situation and we honestly can't give a legitimate prediction. But I was under the belief at the time that we would've taken them to 7 and finished them off.
TR1LL10N
Hannibal Lecter
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't we play them twice? The last two games, one at MSG and one in CHi and we won both...at least that is my memory of it!
New New York
Quiet Storm
Yeah typical of our team we blew a forth qtr. lead and Pat saved us with a lucky bank shot from the corner when the Bulls got the lead to just two. That was the home game
And the second game H20 hit a three to beat the shot clock with 4 secs on the game clock to put us up 4.
Akamu
The King
Co-sign
If we didn't have the injuries/suspensions we could have topped them.
I was never a big Jordan fan like everyone else, his game was tight but the guy was a straight asshole personality wise.
Penny was gangsta with it back then, one of my favorites: (Too bad he wasn't able to have the typa career he had in Orlando with us, I was shocked that he was a Knick, those injuries set him back)