Knicks vs Celtics Rivalry Explained by Tommy Heinsohn
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Since I’m a kid the media has always discussed any matchup between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks as a renewed “rivalry.” My only real experience with a Celtics vs Knicks epic post season show down were 1990, 2013 and, of course from old VHS, 1984 game 7 at Boston Garden.
Not hard to remember the elimination games lost on the parquet in ‘90 and ‘13. Both cued the end of eras for fans of that generation.
By the time the NBA playoffs rolled up in spring, 1990, Larry Bird had played 79 regular season games after missing all but 6 games the previous year due to bone spurs that required surgery, Bird has returned to the usual hype train that followed legends making comebacks. He finished the year averaging 24.3 PPG but his FGP had slumped to a career low. The Celtics were also not the same time. Danny Ainge was traded to Sacramento during the prime of his career to help bring some much needed length to the 1989 roster absent Bird. Dennis Johnson, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish were a year older and the Knicks were up and comers.
After demolishing Patrick Ewing and company in games 1 and 2 at Boston Garden, the Celtics dropped the next 3 straight and the series.
Larry Legend would limp through 2 more injury plagued seasons but not before the 1990 offseason where Red Auerbach gave the franchise their biggest shakeup since Bird entered the league.
Though the years had passed, players and coaches had come and gone. By 2013, Danny Ainge was now the General Manager and patriarch Red Auerbach had passed on. Larry Legend had retired 2 decades earlier and a new ‘Big 3’ had returned Boston to Basketball Championship glory. Like some 23 years earlier, the new living legends roaming the parquet were well past their pride. As Bird was preparing to pass the torch to Reggie Lewis in 1990, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett were handing over the reigns of the franchise to Rajon Rondo but the all star PG was out of the series due to injury. The aged Pierce and Garnett gave a valiant effort but the Knick youth and speed were too much as the Celtics went fishing in the first round for first time in the New Big Three era. With out time wasted, Danny Ainge traded off KG, Pierce and Jason Terry for a treasure chest of draft picks that would become the franchise players of today.
But that can’t define the Celtics Knicks hype, could it?
Well… not so much and even in this early 90’s segment, the quintessential Celtics legend confirms that “the Knicks always resented the Celtics, there’s no question about it.”
Gotta love how the old Celtics had confidence supreme and trash talking didn’t retire when they did.
So it had to be Tommy Heinsohn and Bill Russell dynasty Celts…. Right? Wrong.
Upon further investigation it’s apparent that Heinsohn was there, but coaching, not playing. The titans of the 1970’s, 2 title teams, had the hardest fought series against the Knicks in
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Since I’m a kid the media has always discussed any matchup between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks as a renewed “rivalry.” My only real experience with a Celtics vs Knicks epic post season show down were 1990, 2013 and, of course from old VHS, 1984 game 7 at Boston Garden.
Not hard to remember the elimination games lost on the parquet in ‘90 and ‘13. Both cued the end of eras for fans of that generation.
By the time the NBA playoffs rolled up in spring, 1990, Larry Bird had played 79 regular season games after missing all but 6 games the previous year due to bone spurs that required surgery, Bird has returned to the usual hype train that followed legends making comebacks. He finished the year averaging 24.3 PPG but his FGP had slumped to a career low. The Celtics were also not the same time. Danny Ainge was traded to Sacramento during the prime of his career to help bring some much needed length to the 1989 roster absent Bird. Dennis Johnson, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish were a year older and the Knicks were up and comers.
After demolishing Patrick Ewing and company in games 1 and 2 at Boston Garden, the Celtics dropped the next 3 straight and the series.
Larry Legend would limp through 2 more injury plagued seasons but not before the 1990 offseason where Red Auerbach gave the franchise their biggest shakeup since Bird entered the league.
Though the years had passed, players and coaches had come and gone. By 2013, Danny Ainge was now the General Manager and patriarch Red Auerbach had passed on. Larry Legend had retired 2 decades earlier and a new ‘Big 3’ had returned Boston to Basketball Championship glory. Like some 23 years earlier, the new living legends roaming the parquet were well past their pride. As Bird was preparing to pass the torch to Reggie Lewis in 1990, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett were handing over the reigns of the franchise to Rajon Rondo but the all star PG was out of the series due to injury. The aged Pierce and Garnett gave a valiant effort but the Knick youth and speed were too much as the Celtics went fishing in the first round for first time in the New Big Three era. With out time wasted, Danny Ainge traded off KG, Pierce and Jason Terry for a treasure chest of draft picks that would become the franchise players of today.
But that can’t define the Celtics Knicks hype, could it?
Well… not so much and even in this early 90’s segment, the quintessential Celtics legend confirms that “the Knicks always resented the Celtics, there’s no question about it.”
Gotta love how the old Celtics had confidence supreme and trash talking didn’t retire when they did.
So it had to be Tommy Heinsohn and Bill Russell dynasty Celts…. Right? Wrong.
Upon further investigation it’s apparent that Heinsohn was there, but coaching, not playing. The titans of the 1970’s, 2 title teams, had the hardest fought series against the Knicks in
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