Charlotte Hornets vs NY Knicks 97 Playoffs Series Preview-Recap

[InfraaVerdaggens]

All except Ewing who lost the whole year with a wrist injury (he landed from up high and sat square upon his wrist in the beginning of the season). Also LJ had lost some explosiveness and plasticity from 97 to 98. In 1997 the Knicks were 57-25 while in 1998 I think they won 40-something or so.

[InfraaVerdaggens]

This is the BEST sports video uploaded on youtube so far.

[demoncleaner45]

I can't understand what Starks was saying to Rice in the tunnel.

[clutchcity25]

@demoncleaner45

"You don't want none of this. You don't want none of this. Forget the game. Forget the game."

[InfraaVerdaggens]

@clutchcity25 And what does Rice say right after in the interview?

[clutchcity25]

@InfraaVerdaggens

"That youngster should know better than to provoke me like that."

[InfraaVerdaggens]

@clutchcity25 THIS is basketball to watch and not the overrated boring Bulls.

For some reason the Rockets OWNED the Bulls in the 90's. If they had met them in the Finals they would definitely have dethroned them.

Do you agree?

[clutchcity25]

@InfraaVerdaggens I do. Vernon Maxwell was one of a handful of people that frustrated Michael Jordan. They had no answer for Hakeem, Kenny Smith was better than Paxson, and the Rockets had a better bench.

[InfraaVerdaggens]

Stern has sucked the passion out of the game and has created this faggot-tattoo mongrel of a sport that is played nowadays.

In 1997, Stern was sensing that the Knicks would dethrone the Bulls in the playoffs. They were tougher defensively and as good offensively. Oakley has always neutralized Rodman. Rodman could not guard LJ. Jordan should guard Houston. Starks would guard Jordan and Pippen. Ewing would abuse all the Bulls' centers. It would be interesting indeed.

[clutchcity25]

@InfraaVerdaggens This series, the Knicks-Pacers series, and the Knicks-Heat series were more interesting than any of the stuff with the bulls.

[InfraaVerdaggens]

@clutchcity25 The only interesting thing about the Bulls was their rivalry with the Knicks! Haha!

Anyway, in 1997, the Knicks had gotten the best out of the Bulls and the Heat and everybody during the regular season, and they were about to throw the Heat easily out in the playoffs, when Stern and Thorn game and robbed them, preventing the basketball world from watching the best playoff series of all time: Knicks-Bulls 1997 ECF.

[clutchcity25]

@InfraaVerdaggens It's sad but true. The Heat had no chance against the Bulls. The Knicks were clearly better equipped.

[InfraaVerdaggens]

Jordan admitted in late June 1997 (after winning the championship) that the Knicks had them that year and thank god they were robbed out of the playoffs.

If Stern didn't rob them, they would have beaten Miami 4-2 and the Bulls 4-3 or 4-2 most probably.

[clutchcity25]

@InfraaVerdaggens It's nuts. They should have met up in the '98 ECF as well.

[InfraaVerdaggens]

If I was gonna bet, I would bet for the Bulls in 1998 ECF, but I would bet for the Knicks in the 1997 ECF. In 1998 the Knicks were weaker than the Bulls, but in 1997 the Bulls would experience hell in the ECF!

[clutchcity25]

@InfraaVerdaggens Didn't the Knicks virtually have the same roster both years? LJ, Ewing, Houston, Starks, all of those guys.