Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Ziron, brought to you by The Nation Magazine.

Right now, we're going to do our latest in what we've been calling basketball butterfly effect with basketball savant, Darya Shirazi.

But we're not doing a butterfly effect this week.

Usually we do a butterfly effect, like what if this person had drafted this person?

And, you know, what if the wind had blown off somebody's hat right when David Stern was about to speak?

I don't know.

I just saw Miller's crossing.

Hats in the air are very much on the brain.

The question what we're facing today, though, is not a butterfly effect, although you could argue that we could find a lot of

butterfly effects over the course of five decades regarding this topic but the question we

want to answer is why in the blue hell have the New York Knicks not won a title in 50 years

this is New York City it It's the city game.

It's the game that made the game.

It's where Curtis Blow wrote basketball.

It's the site of some of the most dynamic teams in NBA history.

It's just that those dynamic teams kind of curdled up and died in

1973. So what the hell has happened in the last 50 years? How has this town

remained titleless when it comes to basketball of all sports? How is Eli Manning won-2 and the Knicks 1-0? It makes no damn sense. So are you

Shirazi first and foremost, welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast brought to you by the Nation

magazine. Thanks very much, Dave. I'm looking forward to talking about this. So five decades, are you? Five decades and

no title for just a team that is iconic. And the thing about it that troubles me, I just want you

to start throwing some reasons at me why you think that's the case. But a couple of the things

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