I always want to remove emotion from my articles. If you’re gonna write about sports, you have to remove your biases and your opinions as best you can. Nobody wants to hear a homer in dark times, nobody wants to hear a doomer in great times. Personal stuff is mostly put to the side.
This is an exception.
I was not alive when the Knicks last advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals. My older brother was in middle school, my parents hadn’t met yet, and I know all of your lives have changed tremendously in the last 25 years, even if you did witness the 2000 ECF.