The 1970s were the greatest decade in New York Knicks history, but the 1990s are the most warmly remembered. Chalk that up to youth, if you will, but the Knicks of the 1990s represented New York City.
It wasn’t always pretty, but those Knicks teams were blue collar workers with a desire for greatness and a willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve it.
Roughly 20 years later, team president Phil Jackson is building a team that blends the 1970s with the 1990s. Two of the players he brought in to facilitate that growth, Brandon Jennings and Joakim Noah, are already identifying with the Knicks teams of the 1990s.