The No. 8 Seed Knicks Reach the ’99 Finals

June 11, 1999. Inside Madison Square Garden, Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals tips off between the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers. Hardly anyone expected this Knicks squad to be here — a lockout and a roster overhaul created a season of chaos. Yet somehow, New York stands just one win away from a shot at the title. Today, the Knicks become the first-ever No. 8 seed to make it to the NBA Finals. How do they overcome so much in-season chaos? And can they capture their first championship since 1973? Special thanks to our guest: Paul Knepper, Knicks superfan and author of “Knicks of the Nineties: Ewing, Oakley, Starks and the Brawlers That Almost Won It All.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The No. 8 Seed Knicks Reach the ’99 Finals is an episode from Sports History This Week by Ben Dickstein.

This episode is 27:19 long.

This episode was published on Jun 7, 2023.

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