The Knicks' second-round playoff series begins Sunday afternoon at the Garden, and who they're playing has significance. The Knicks and Heat may not be the most historic rivalry, but for a time, it was the most intense. OvermyerTV has that story.
' second round playoff series begins Sunday at Madison Square Garden, and who they're playing has significance.It started with a fight.
Thibodeau was a Knicks assistant back then. In a physical and competitive series in 1997, emotions boiled over. In fact, it was the heaviest playoff suspension in history and likely cost the Knicks the series.The animosity actually began two years earlier when Pat Riley surprisingly quit the Knicks via fax and bolted to Miami. With that, the fuse for the rivalry was lit.
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