In 1992, New York became the first club to push Jordan and the title-era Bulls to a seventh game. The Knicks followed that up with the wrenching defeat in 1993, after the winnable Charles Smith sequence. They were a 2-for-18, Game 7 John Starks performance away from winning the whole thing in 1994. A Game 7, Patrick Ewing finger roll at the buzzer away from beating Indiana to make the conference finals in 1995. A bench-clearing dustup against the Heat from getting one last good crack at Chicago in 1997. And then a Ewing Achilles injury away from having the size to go toe-to-toe with the Spurs
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