This is the first time in 46-plus years when the Knicks and Nets have had winning streaks of at least six games at the same time.
If it feels like it’s been a while since we’ve enjoyed this level of matching basketball prosperity around here … well, that’s because it’s been awhile since we’ve enjoyed this level of matching basketball prosperity around here. into Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night when they host the Golden State Warriors — minus Steph Curry, out a few weeks with a left shoulder subluxation.
In that Christmas season of ’74, the Nets were defending ABA champions and the Knicks were only 19 months removed from winning the 1973 NBA title, and while they mostly pretended to ignore each other’s existence when they were both playing well it was impossible not to get caught up in it. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
“Are the Knicks playing well, too?” Julius Erving said with a knowing wink a night later, when his team-high 19 points with the NBA’s red-white-and-blue ball helped the Nets clobber Marvin “Bad News” Barnes and the Spirits of St. Louis, 117-96, at Nassau Coliseum, their sixth straight in what would grow to a 10-game winning streak.
Well, he’s right of course. And if there’s one thing less relevant to Thibodeau than the Knicks’ winning streak, it’s the Nets’ winning streak — or anything having even remotely to do with the Nets, for that matter. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
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