**These facts are crazy. If you tell me 2001, I honestly don’t think it was that long ago. When you compare it to these facts…holy shit, that was SO long ago.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, I was 10 years old. Odds are close to none but if the Knicks could win this series, aka take the next three games, it would be as epic as watching the 2004 Red Sox take the ALCS from the Yanks.**
was on April 29th, 2001. The following is a list of events and facts also of that time:
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, Iman Shumpert was only 10 years old.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, they beat a Vince Carter led Toronto Raptors.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, most people didn’t even know who Osama Bin Laden was.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, most people didn’t know what a Wikipedia was since it just launched that year.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, George W. Bush was in his fourth month as POTUS.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, the X-BOX had not been released yet.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, the word “iPod” had not yet entered our lexicon.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, MySpace, Facebook and “social media” was non-existent and people were mostly using LiveJournal.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, people were still using “Ask Jeeves”.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, Harry Potter was just getting popular.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, Halle Berry became the first African-American to receive an Academy Award for Best Actress.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, American audiences were enamored by French Manic Pixie Dream Girl Audrey Tatou for the first time.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, the band At The Drive-In had just called it quits.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, Michael Jackson was still recording his album Invincible.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, Joey Ramone had passed two weeks prior.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, Alex Trebek still had a mustache.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, I had just received my driver’s license and got my first car.
The last time the Knicks won a playoff game, Deion Sanders was training for the Cincinnati Reds.
OK I have beaten this point to death by now, but really the last time the Knicks won a playoff game, it was quite a different world we were living in. It’s truly amazing to think that it’s actually taken THAT long for them to even get back to this point. I mean we’re celebrating them winning just a SINGLE game, in a series that I dare not even entertain the idea of them conceivably coming back from. But here we are eleven years later (11 years, 8 days to be exact) and I have to say, for the time being, it feels pretty good.
(mark)
(h/t Benjamin Hoffman/NYT)
