Since I began to have a love of basketball, the NBA became my favorite league in the 90's and there was a team that I started to like because of their players' claws and how competitive they were against their rivals, that moment awakened my passion for the New York Knicks.
The Big Apple team, which plays at Madison Square Garden, also called the Palace of the Three Lies first because it is not on Madison Street, second is not square and third has no garden. At that time I was in high school but I didn't miss the Knicks' games, especially in the playoffs when they were playing the Bulls against their strongest rivals.
The duels between the Knicks and Michael Jordan's Bulls were to the death, so to speak, they were totally physical and intense games, it was clear that the mentality was different.
I remember how every play was so important and the great interest I had in the team, this feeling that binds us to a sports franchise is fed in a fluid way according to the behavior that your team played throughout the championship, when the Knicks faced their rivals was something very serious.
Patrick Ewing was the guide of those Knicks who were very close to winning their most recent championship a few years ago, but a few Houston Rockets prevented them from enjoying that triumph, I just remember clearly that game 6 of the finals, where a shot from John Starks' perimeter could have given the NBA championship to the Knicks but that shot was missed and Houston was alive, then in the next game the Rockets would be champions with Hakeem Olajuwon.
I have to confess that in recent times the team has been trying to improve but it has been periods of many defeats, even with the acquisition of Porzingis which I think has a bright future, but the team still does not have the performance to reach the playoffs as in the Ewing era. We need to add better players around Porzingis and where team cohesion is being adjusted, so that those great years can return to the big apple.
But despite everything that has happened with the team and their absence in the playoffs I am always aware of any signs of improvement from my legendary team to support them, but in recent years have not had a presence in the playoffs and not feel bad, support for other emerging teams of the Western Conference, as it is the case in the season that I just finished supporting Boston and the Sixers because I saw a great resurgence in those franchises, this does not mean that I have betrayed or stopped supporting the Knicks, but rather to continue to have interest in the league and good new projects.
New York Knicks will always have a special space as my favorite NBA team and with which I have lived great moments, that someday will return, because it is clear that the teams also have their gray years, as what has happened with the Lakers, the Sixers lived, and those casualties are normal in the sport.
I believe that patience is fundamental in rebuilding a team and in this day and age, that's what those of us who support the Knicks' jersey should have, I know that a great franchise like the Knicks, in the not too distant future will be able to have great years like it once had and at some point in time it will be able to lift the NBA championship trophy.
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