27 years ago the Spurs won their first title in their franchise history.
This doesn’t hurt me anymore
I get it. I forgave tom Brady
I’ll never forgive him for what he has done to my Jets
Same for the Bills. Damn that was a brutal 20 years.
Ehh it wasn’t really Brady’s fault, we just sucked for 20 years
Both can be true
Brady is not the reason we sucked for 20 years. You don’t go 5-11 and 6-10 every year because of one team beating you twice a year. Ralph Wilson was completely checked out by the end and let Russ Brandon run the show for years. He was awful at picking GMs and head coaches.
Pegula sucks in a lot of ways too, but it’s not exactly a surprise that the team got better when Wilson had passed away.
I hate the bills so between that and losing 4 SB I’m happy about that
Considering you’re a Jets fan, I’m guessing there are a lot of players and teams you aren’t forgiving anytime soon.
Fuck yeah we have a long list lol
Everyone except the Cardinals pretty much? And maybe Vegas.
Same for the phins even tho we had the best winning percentage vs Brady in Miami ofc
At least you guys upset him in 2011.
Just don’t think I’ll ever have it in me to forgive the Jets for what they’ve done to the Jets
You don’t count
This one never hurt too bad. I went in fully expecting a loss and I also respected the spurs stars quite a bit. Very clear that the better team won.
Houston hurt. A lot of pain between then and now, but not so much this
This is how I felt this year lol
And here, for me, it’s what got me into basketball in the first place.
94 hurt way more than this one. We pretty much knew we’d get smoked here
I was pulling for you guys in ‘99 because of ‘94.
Also just ‘cause that team was full to root for.
Revenge for 99
This was the first time I’ve watched this clip in 27 years
I get it. I forgave the Warriors.
Rubber match next year!
For another 60 years.
Hard to tell due to low def, BUT WHERE THE HELL ARE THE CONGRATULATORY HANDSHAKES!?!?!
NO SPORTSMANSHIP FROM THE KNICKS! NO CLASS!!!
I never understood the big deal with this during the finals. It’s very difficult to shake hands with a team who is jumping into a pile together.
Sometimes you get the handshakes during blowouts when everyone knows the outcome, but in close games like this (or the finals that just passed) people aren’t always gonna hang around and watch you celebrate so they can shake your hands afterwards.
What a bunch of immature brats. How hard is it to shake hands? The new york knicks are setting a bad example for the children here. God, think of the children
Gonna go out on a limb and say no handshakes is NOT the craziest thing a kid might see in and around MSG 😂
instead of congratulating their opponents they decided to head straight to the locker room. Total lack of class and maturity from the Spurs Knicks which is a bad look for them
It’s funny I’ve never seen a single Spurs fan care or complain about this. But God forbid Knicks don’t get their pats on the back 😂
I’ve never thought about it once in my life, except when they do it in hockey and remind me it’s a thing in hockey.
Did you even say thank you?
Hockey is such an amazing sport. Two teams beating the shit out of each other for 45mins and sometimes have dudes come on the ice solely to fistfight, but you better believe they’re shaking hands after the game.
You have to respect it at the very least.
Its funny because I brought this up at the time amid the “debacle”. When you mosh like that, it becomes hard to shake hands.
The victors gotta want to shake hands too. Understandably sometimes they’re busy celebrating lol
Same thing happened with the Heat in 06 which was posted.
Even when they posted the Heat’s first championship, Dirk and the rest didnt shake hands. Lmao.
What’s crazy is in the lockout season Spurs started the season rough and media was critical of Pop and saying he wasn’t head coach material, then they got their shit together and absolutely dominated the rest of the season and playoffs. 31-5 to finish the regular season and 15-2 to win the title. Became the start of a dynasty.
I worked at Circuit City in San Antonio for several years and George Gervin was a regular. He’d come in every couple of weeks and buy some Jazz CDs. well one customer asked him one time about what he thinks about Pop. He says the Spurs would be a lot better when they get a real coach.
…yeah
A lot of people felt that way, and that his firing of Bob Hill to tank for TD was slimy. Winning solves everything
They used to say that about Avery too, i think it was doug collins on the broadcast who during one of our previous years sayin “you can’t win an NBA championship with avery johnson as your point guard, its just an unfortunate reality” or something to that effect.
And at the time he was right, Avery was a guy that got kicked around the league a lot, small and had quite a few late game catastrophes but man winning that chip was so damn sweet for him in the end. I couldn’t even imagine how amazing that must’ve been for him.
Nothing shuts the doubters up like hitting the shot to win the title
I believe it was Damon Stoudemire who had said that. Maybe it was both idk.
They actually had a players only meeting, to keep him.
27 fucking years holy shoot
78-77. Oh how the game has changed.
This was an average spurs finals game until 2012
Insane isn’t it
90’s and deadball eras were something else. Remember when they allowed hand checking and zone defense at the same time (01-02 to 04-05)? If it was Spurs, Pistons, Pacers, or such, the scores were almost always that low.
27 years later the Knicks won their third title in franchise history in the same exact fashion.
Kept thinking about this during this year. Games 1-2-4-5 went to the champion. Only difference was the 2-3-2 format had the Spurs with homecourt win on a road game 5.
I know it had been a long time since the Knicks won but only 3 titles is surprising as hell to me for a franchise that is so iconic.
All time playoff game record between us is 5-5
Seems to me like another meeting is in order soon
Or we can use the cup as a tiebreaker 😉
Rejected.
I’m allow it
Same time next year?
/signed
I appreciate your premise and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Given historical results, the Spurs as an organization on a revenge tour to the NBA Finals is rather satisfying.
We’re getting a 7-game Finals series next time aren’t we?
Werid seeing a team in the 90s win a finals that isn’t the bulls
Or the Rockets
Pistons too right?
What’s ironic is that both series had the reverse outcomes.
They were both 5 game series and every game was super close.
Is that Rick Brunson behind spreewell right as the video ends?
Yup he was on that ‘99 team
Damn just 1 point
Knicks fans promised to be annoying if they won and they are certainly in here doing that. Lol
Knicks shot 20.4% from 3. They made 11 3 pointers the entire series.
old man voice
“It was a different time”
Nah 99 is even worse for offense than anything else around it.
The Spurs shot 33.9% and made 21 3 pointers.
i dont understand that play. Tim Duncan and David Robinson are clogging the middle, and they throw it to the cutter?
Spree even getting a decent shot off against TD and Robinson there was impressive
He shouldve went up right away in one motion. The layup was there
Tim Duncan had looked the exact same for almost 30 years then suddenly morphed into Bob Marley and not alot of people talk about it
Old as me
Sprewell knicks was 1st jersey I ever had, damn I loved that squad
Well win one someday.
I watch this to distract myself from the 2026 finals
Is that Latrell spreewell
He choked that last shot like a coach.
Damn.. Inflation even hits basketball hard. 78-77 final score.
That’s a half time score nowadays
here’s to another 27 until the next!
That was the M.A.S.H. Knicks. They were so banged up. The fact they got all the way there and then managed to get one is astounding
We will rest in July
NYK got their lick back
That’s a halftime score now.
Sweet revenge this year was the cherry on top !
8th seed Knicks, yeah? They took a game too. Crazy shit.
Gazey!
And it’s about to happen again 😬
Back when they played defense
78-77 man
What the hell was that play?
this is kind of a long time ago… and lebron was drafted 4 years later
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What was your excuse the other 53 years?
Wow that’s a low scoring game. High 70s. Crazy. Now we got them scoring 150 points.
Knicks in 5
And we got our get back!!!! KNICKS IN 5!!!!!!!!!
10 days ago Knicks won their first title in 53 years.
Payback is a bitch
Not really, 27 years and 4 rings later after not winning in 50 years is longest come back ever lol
How glorious it is!
Ruh roh. Someone’s salty
About what? we just made the finals off of some rookies, yall couldn’t even hit the ECF
Please continue to seethe 🤭
Incredibly lame, first seed frauds 👆👆
Wemby still a little bitch 🤣🫵🏼
I’m trolling people relax, he was also a huge baby all series
Well, he’s a really tall bitch
But a bitch nonetheless
Promise he gained more knowledge from the finals than any moment in his basketball career
Shockingly so
Never will get another one
Lol
Spurns got permanently psychotically damaged