It is funny how certain teams assume certain years, right? If you say the year “1970” to a room crowded with New York sports fans, and ask them the first thing that pops into their minds, 99.9 percent of them will say “Knicks!” leaving the other 0.1 percent to explain (fruitlessly) why they would have picked anyone else.
Say “1969?” That belongs, exclusively, to the Mets, even though on the 12th day of that year the Jets won the Super Bowl.
1994 is an exception, because the Rangers and the Knicks both carried us into June, and even though by rights ’94 should belong exclusively to the Rangers, who actually won a championship, there just happen to be more basketball fans than hockey fans in New York, so the Knicks still retain co-ownership.