Four straight Celtic games!!!!!
God I hate the Celtics…
When it comes to painful losses, this game never gets
mentioned. To no fault of their own, Knicks fans do not have any recollection
of this game whatsoever because there isn’t a plethora of NBA footage from the
60s.
The Knicks were favorited to win this series; they won six
of the seven regular season meetings. But after going down 3-1 in the series, the
Knicks managed to get a Pyrrhic eight point victory, as Walt Clyde Frazier
suffered a groin injury in the final minute.
The injury hampered Frazier and the Celtics won game six , by
one point, and would go on to win the
NBA Championship, defeating the Lakers in seven games.
“I took one look at Clyde and knew we were out of it.”
-Willis Reed
That quote says it all: Imagine if social media was around
back then!
The good news: That loss, along with Bill Russell’s retirement,
propelled the Knicks to win their first NBA title, which led to approximately
203,309,390 books about that historic team.
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