Kudos to the Knicks for successful the NBA Emirates Cup.
As a Spurs fan, I clearly needed them to win. However as a Spurs fan, I used to be impressed and actually barely astounded they made it to the Cup Finals. It hadn’t dawned on me and in earlier years, I had not given the Cup competitors a lot thought.
I’m not bitter. Final night time at rehearsal one in every of my bandmates mentioned the “refs gave the win to the Knicks.” I don’t agree and totally settle for the result for what it’s.
However what I don’t agree with is popping a win in a midseason competitors in 2025 into redemption for the 1999 NBA Finals.
Patrick Ewing, Allan Houston, Latrell Sprewell…Jeff Van Gundy…1999? Who’s looking for Latrell Sprewell?
To start with, eight of the eighteen at the moment rostered Knicks weren’t born but. Mitchell Robinson was in diapers (think about the scale of these Pampers). One other seven had been below the age of 5. Leaving two gamers: Jordan Clarkson, who was seven and had moved to San Antonio the earlier 12 months and almost certainly would have been roosting for the Spurs, and P. J. Tucker, who was fourteen on the time.
On the Spurs facet, solely seven present gamers had been alive, and all below the age of 9.
So the gamers themselves had nothing vested within the consequence of the 1999 NBA Finals.
Hear, it was laborious sufficient to get the remainder of the non-Spursian basketball world to respect the Silver & Black, and it took multiple title because the 1999 Finals occurred in a lockout 12 months and weren’t thought of legit by all. (I’m speaking to you, Mr Phil “kiss my asterisk” Jackson.)
The NBA Cup is its personal factor. It’s 4 video games for all after which three extra for many who maintain. Seven video games complete. It’s not a playoff run requiring 16 wins after an 82-game season. It deserves the respect it will get and the group that wins will get paid and has some bragging rights.
It doesn’t proper wrongs from 1 / 4 century in the past or validate the gamers from a bygone period.
So, please, let’s cease utilizing the time period redemption to explain the result of the twenty sixth sport of the season.
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