Maybe it was like this back in the early \u201970s, in those years immediately following the first championship when the Knicks were still awfully good \u2014 good enough to win a second title in 1973, three years after the first one \u2014 but weren\u2019t nearly as dominant as they\u2019d been in 1970.<\/p>\n
Maybe in, say, 1972, when the Knicks struggled their way to \u201conly\u201d 48 wins, their fans paced nervously while watching (or, mostly, listening) along. Maybe the five-game losing streak they endured from Jan. 4 through Jan. 14 that year left people so disgusted that they declared, \u201cThat\u2019s it! I can\u2019t watch [or listen to] them anymore!\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe it was that way in 1994, too, when the Knicks lost four in a row and were playing poorly enough that Pat Riley scheduled a side trip to Reno between games in Phoenix and Sacramento to take their minds off the fact that they were a relatively pedestrian 36-19. The fans grew more despondent by the hour \u2014 and then began to feel relentlessly bulletproof as the Knicks proceeded to rattle off 15 straight wins.<\/p>\n
Maybe things then were every bit as manic-depressive as they are now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe it was like this back in the early \u201970s, in those years immediately following the first championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,191,114,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-664477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-pacers","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116249126953344101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}