53 Years in the Making
By now, most of America knows that the New York Knicks are NBA champions. However, this did not come easily. The Knicks fought through years of hardship and drought that many thought they would never overcome. To fully grasp how monumental this championship win truly is, we need to be taken back to the last time this historic franchise reached the ultimate basketball summit. It’s May 10, 1973; the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam just two months prior, the nation was emerging into a new era, and famil