Knicks Fans Forget About the Bad Times and Savor a Record Run to Their First NBA Finals Since 1999
Jalen Brunson earned Eastern Conference finals MVP as New York outscored Cleveland by 37 points in the clinching game.
- The New York Knicks swept the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday with a 130-93 rout in Game 4, clinching the Eastern Conference title and reaching the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999.
- After 27 years of mediocrity, the franchise endured a 17-65 season in 2018-19 and won only 10 playoff games from 2000-01 to 2021-22 before this remarkable turnaround.
- New York's 11-game winning streak featured a combined 262-point margin—the largest in any such span in NBA history—with a +271 point differential ranking third all-time; Jalen Brunson earned the Larry Bird Trophy as Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
- Game 1 tips off Wednesday, June 3 against either the Oklahoma City Thunder or San Antonio Spurs, with New York hosting Game 3 on June 8 at Madison Square Garden for the first Finals game there in 9,845 days.
- Though favored opponents await, Knicks fans believe the championship drought will end; longtime fan Anthony Mills said the team will win, invoking Joe Namath's Super Bowl guarantee as Brunson seeks New York's first title since 1973.
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The New York franchise swept Cleveland Cavaliers to crown the East Conference with Jalen Brunson as MVP.
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The New York Knicks are headed back to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, and that sentence still doesn't feel real.Think about the timeline: A kid born the last time the Knicks played for a championship is now 27 years old. An entire generation of Knicks fans, including Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet, reached adulthood having never once watched their team play meaningful basketball in June.Now here they are. Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anth…
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