The Last Fun Knicks Team: Indy-NY Game 3, 1999 (w/ Sean Fennessey & Jason Concepcion) | Book of Basketball 2.0

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🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Was Larry Johnson’s 4-point shot the last truly great Knicks moment? Was he fouled in the first place? Why was basketball so BAD back then? Why did we still love it so much? And was it a coincidence that James Dolan took over the Knicks shortly thereafter and ruined all the fun? Bill breaks it all down with The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey and Jason Concepcion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	episode 16 of the Book of Basketball 2.0 podcast on the ringer podcast network is brought to you
0:06.7	by state farm. Just like basketball, the game of life is unpredictable. Talk to a state farm agent
0:12.3	and get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected. You know, it's unexpected.
0:18.4	The next having their last great moment other than linsei and it being in 1999. We're going to
0:23.5	be covering that in a second. Get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected. Talk to
0:28.1	a state farm agent today. If you love basketball on the Bill Simmons podcast, me and Ryan
0:34.4	Rassille and Joe has we picked all of our all-star teams for both conferences and had a pretty spirited
0:41.4	conversation about why NBA ratings are down and a whole bunch other things. So if you like the
0:46.3	current league, I would highly suggest that one. If you like going backwards and if you're a
0:52.2	nix fan and things have not been going well for you the last 20 years, this podcast it will be
0:58.8	both uplifting and incredibly depressing. It's a moment in time that feels like to me that it happened
1:06.8	three years ago or that it happened 300 years ago and I'm not sure which one it is. We're
1:12.4	going to break down in my opinion the last great playoff game in nix history. That's all coming up.
1:18.8	My name is Bill Simmons. This is the Book of Basketball.
1:49.6	Patrick Ewing's Quest for a Championship now continues from the New York
1:58.9	sideline. A warrior who has endured so much this time the pain has become too great to overcome.
2:10.8	Reggie Miller has been unhappy with his performance thus far against the nix
2:15.1	and has been unsuccessful from three-point range. But he's earned the reputation of a
2:22.3	dick killer here at the garden. Can they stop his assault? The Pacers and nix are next.
2:30.4	This is the NBA on NBC. The 1999 NBA playoffs.
2:52.3	It's the Indiana Pacers versus the New York Nix. Two diehard nix fans are here. Jason
2:58.6	Catech, who already looks sad. Sean Fantasy. Hi. You could say this was the last great
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