New York Knicks Tickets

The New York Knicks are one of the most storied franchises in professional sports. Knicks Tickets are among the hardest to get in all of sports. Woody Allen and Spike Lee are just a few of the celebrities that have Knicks Tickets, and Madison Square Garden is always packed for all Knicks home games. Just Great Tickets is the place to get your New York Knicks Regular Season Tickets, New York Knicks Playoff Tickets and New York Knicks NBA Finals Tickets.

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The Knicks' first game was played on November 1, 1946, under head coach Neil Cohalan. The Knicks were consistent playoff contenders in their early years, and made the NBA Finals in three straight years (1951-53). For the remainder of the 1950s, the Knicks would field decent, if not spectacular teams, and made the playoffs in 1955, 1956 (where they lost a one-game playoff to the Syracuse Nationals), and 1959.

After struggling in the early 1960's with some lean years and poor teams, in 1964, the Knicks drafted Willis Reed, who went on to become 1965's NBA Rookie of the Year. In 1965, the Knicks drafted Bill Bradley and Dave Stallworth. In 1967 the Knicks hired Red Holzman as their head coach. With Holzman at the helm, and young players such as Bradley, Reed and Walt "Clyde" Frazier, Knicks Tickets were the thing to have in the Big Apple. The core of what was to be a Championship team was forming. The next season, the team acquired Dave DeBusschere from the Detroit Pistons, and the team went 55-27. In the playoffs, the Knicks swept the Baltimore Bullets in three games, before falling to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Division finals.

In the 1969-70 season, the Knicks had a then-NBA record 18 straight victories en route to 60-22 record, which was the best regular season record in the team's history. Everyone in New York wanted Knicks Tickets. After defeating the Bullets in the Eastern Division semifinals and the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Division finals, the Knicks faced the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals. With the series tied at 2-2, the Knicks would be tested in Game 5. Reed tore a muscle in his right leg in the first quarter, and was lost for the rest of the game. Despite his absence, New York would go on to win the game, rallying from a 16-point deficit. Without their injured captain the Knicks would lose Game 6, setting up one of the most famous moments in NBA history. Reed limped onto the court before the 7th game, determined to play through his pain. He scored New York's first two baskets before going scoreless for the remainder of the contest. Although he was not at full strength, Reed's heroics inspired the Knicks, and they won the game by a score of 113-99, giving them their first NBA championship.

The Knicks' success continued for the next few years, and Knicks Tickets were hot. After losing to the Bullets in the 1971 Eastern Conference finals, the team, aided by the acquisitions of Jerry Lucas and Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, returned to the Finals in 1972. This time the Knicks fell to the Lakers in five games. The next year, the results were reversed, as the Knicks defeated the Lakers in five games to win their second NBA title.

After the Championship years, the Knicks fielded some strong teams in the 1970s and 1980s, but playoff successes were not to be found. Then, in 1984, the Knicks star player, Bernard King was injured, and the team bottomed out to a miserable record of 24-58. Then, destiny struck (or some say the bent corner of an envelope) when Commissioner David Stern pulled the Knicks envelope last and the were the winners of the draft lottery, securing the right to draft star center Patrick Ewing of Georgetown University. The whole sporting world was abuzz with the potential of Ewing taking the Knicks back to the promised land.

The Patrick Ewing era started slowly, but ended with 7 winning records in 8 years, six 50 win seasons and many memorable playoff performances. But no NBA Championships. The Knicks were victims of bad timing, as their run of successful seasons led by Ewing just happened to coincide with the strong Pistons Bad Boys teams of the late 1980s and the Bulls dynasty of the 1990s. The only year the Knicks were able to advance to the NBA Finals was 1993-94, when Jordan was swinging bats for the Birmingham Barons. That year, the Knicks faced the Houston Rockets in the finals. After splitting the first two games in Houston, the Knicks would win two out of three games at Madison Square Garden and came within one game of winning their first NBA title in 21 years. In Game 6, however, a last-second attempt at a game-winning shot by Starks was tipped by Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon, giving the Rockets an 86-84 victory and forcing a Game 7. The Knicks lost Game 7, 90-84.

The Knicks made another trip to the NBA Finals in the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season. After barely getting into the playoffs with a 27-23 record, the Knicks started an improbable postseason run. It started with the Knicks eliminating the #1 seeded Heat in the first round after Allan Houston bounced in a running one-hander off the front of the rim, high off the backboard, and in with 0.8 seconds left in the deciding 5th game. This remarkable upset marked only the second time in NBA history that an 8-seed had defeated the 1-seed in the NBA playoffs. The Knicks then won the Eastern Conference becoming the first eighth-seeded playoff team to make it to the NBA Finals. However, in the Finals, the San Antonio Spurs, with superstars David Robinson and Tim Duncan, proved too much for the injury-laden Knicks, who lost in five games.

In the Patrick Ewing Era, the Knicks not only made the playoffs in 10 straight years, they advanced to the Conference Semifinals all of those years. Knicks Tickets were always in demand. Knick fans have remained loyal since Ewing retired, but the wins have not been there. Isaiah Thomas has not worked out. Thomas' trades have been highly critiqued, as he has brought in expensive players, such as Stephon Marbury, Jamal Crawford, Jerome James (signed as a free agent), Malik Rose, Jalen Rose, and Steve Francis. Moreover, Thomas has also accepted many bad contracts to make these trades, such as those of Penny Hardaway, Jerome Williams or Maurice Taylor, and given up draft picks.

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