With #20HoopClass member Rudy Tomjanovich at the helm, the Houston Rockets won a thrilling Game 7 to defeat the Knicks and capture the 1994 NBA Championship.
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30 years ago today!!
Knicks had this finals in the palm of their hands. If Starks makes only 3 three pointers and free throws, they would have won. They had it….. Knicks had it…
It has been 20 years and I still carry the trauma of this game. I cried like a baby in the fourth quarter, and those tears have been tattooed on my heart. It is Greek tragedy at its deepest pathos. The heartbreaking gaze of John Starks searching for courage under the heavy weight of expectations and repeated failure, remains imprinted in my memory. It needs to be carved into marble, and his tale told by bards to children. I understood Riley’s insistence – one successful 3-pointer would have pulled Starks out of his psychological hellhole, save the game and save the man. Riley, Starks, Ewing, Mason, the New York Knicks, heck the city of New York, at its finest moment, a love and loyalty that never quit even as the cauldron of glory was slipping from their fingertips. Shakespeare could not have written a more heart-rending script. Houston can keep it gaudy trophy, just another cold metal cup for its boastful cabinet, but New York acquired a legendary story that burns and continues burning on forever in the hearts of those who loved them.
The commentators calling the death of the hand check is crazy around 10:00 mark
Still Houstons biggest sports moment. Now Space City has 4 sports titles.