Blood in the Garden 2.0: Knicks, Heat Rivalry Renewed

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Stop us if you’ve heard this before, but the New York Knicks and Miami Heat are facing off in the NBA Playoffs. That phrase alone brings back memories of the 1990s, when the two teams engaged in one of the most intense rivalries in NBA history. While the conflict lacked the ultimate glory of championships, it was always filled to the brim with bad blood, betrayals, fisticuffs, animosity, and the occasional head coach hanging onto the leg of a star player. So today, ahead of Game 2, Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks, explains the feud between these two franchises, and how this series is bringing the 90’s back into today’s NBA Playoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.4	Tell the best sports stories in audio, day in and day out.
0:29.0	Thanks for listening.
0:30.6	Chris Herring, my guy, you and the author of the book, Blood in the Garden, the Flagrin
0:40.4	History of the 1990s New York Knicks.
0:44.2	Anybody who lived through that era, remember is how important they were for the NBA.
0:49.2	And a big part of your book is the intense rivalry between the New York Knicks and the Miami
0:53.7	Heat.
0:54.7	New teams that are currently squaring off in the second round of the NBA playoffs.
0:59.4	How would you describe this Nick's Heat rivalry over the last several decades?
1:04.6	Well, it's been pretty dormant.
1:07.6	Fan bases, the teams still dislike each other, but it takes on a new level when both teams
1:12.9	are really great or when they're competing at this point in the postseason.
1:17.6	And I think that's what you have now.
1:19.2	And I think that makes it more fun.
1:21.5	There was a time though, before this and, you know, kind of leading up to this dormant
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