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5-25-1993: Starks Dunks Bulls into 0-2 Hole

Filed Under On This Day . . ., NBA, Loose Balls

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Coming into the 1992 Eastern Conference Semifinals, the New York Knicks figured to be a mere stop on the road to another title for the defending champion Chicago Bulls.

Little did the Bulls know what was in store for them.

After destroying the Knicks in a 3-0 series sweep in the first round of the 1991 NBA Playoffs, the Bulls were shocked at home by New York in Game One of the 1992 playoff series.

Led by the scoring of Patrick Ewing, the nastiness of Xavier McDaniel, Charles Oakley and John Starks, and the suddenly physical philosophy of Head Coach Pat Riley, the Knicks pushed the Bulls to seven games in a tense, rough-and-tumble series that set the stage for a heated rivalry.

After losing this classic series, the Knicks revamped its team in the summer of 1992 with the goal of knocking off the Bulls.

While McDaniel and Gerald Wilkins were respectively lost to the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers via free agency, New York traded point guard Mark Jackson to the Los Angeles Clippers for big man Charles Smith.

The team also brought in veterans Doc Rivers and Rolando Blackman.

With a 60-22 regular season record, the Knicks entered the 1993 NBA Playoffs as the number-one seed in the Eastern Conference.

On an inevitable collision course, the Knicks and Bulls met in the Eastern Conference Finals.

After winning Game One, the Knicks took a 2-0 series lead 16 years ago today when the spunky and punky Starks threw in a nasty, left-handed baseline dunk over Horace Grant and Michael Jordan near the end of the second game at Madison Square Garden.

Check out Starks’ dunk around 10 minutes of this video.

With Chicago on the ropes, it looked like the Knicks were going to dethrone the Bulls.

Showing the heart of a champion not ready to relinquish what it had earned, the Bulls destroyed the Knicks in Game Three at a rocking Chicago Stadium.

After struggling through the first three games of the series, Jordan would score 55 points in Game Four on Memorial Day, allowing the Bulls to tie the series.

Coming back to the intimidating Madison Square Garden, the Bulls stole a Game Five classic, with B.J. Armstrong hitting a late three and the Bulls sending back Smith several times at the rim in the game’s final moments.

With all the momentum on its side, Chicago defeated a reeling New York team back at home in Game Six to make the NBA Finals for the third straight season.

After defeating the Phoenix Suns in six games in the 1993 NBA Finals, Jordan would retire. The Knicks would finally break through against the Bulls in a 1994 Eastern Conference Semifinals series that went seven games and was not without controversy.