Over And Back: Stories About Nba History

We take a look at why the 1973 New York Knicks seem to be an afterthought compared to the 1970 team in the latest edition of Over and Back’s Basketball Mysteries of the 1970s.We are joined by Rafael Canton of the NBA Trades blog and podcast to discuss the 1970s Knicks with Clyde Frazier, Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, Dave DeBusschere, Earl Monroe, Phil Jackson, Jerry Lucas, Cazzie Russell and Dick Barnett. They are among the most popular and mythologized teams in NBA history. But while their 1970 championship season, famously punctuated by an injured Reed emerging from the Madison Square Garden tunnel in Game 7 of the Finals to inspire his team to victory, is the stuff of legends, the 1973 team rarely evokes the same kind of treatment, despite having more Hall of Famers.Included in the discussion: how important these Knicks were in terms of popularizing the NBA during the early 1970s, how players with different personalities and backgrounds came together as a cohesive force, what made the Knicks special, less-kn