Echoes of the Past: How This Knicks Team Has Shades of the 1970s

Fifty years. That’s how long it’s been since two Knicks players were starters in the All-Star Game, when the Rolls Royce Backcourt of Clyde Frazier and Earl Monroe did it. Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns have broken that streak and will start in this year’s All-Star Game in San Francisco. Ironically, the All-Star Game in 1975 was also out west, in Phoenix.

In this context, these four players are now linked in Knicks history. Upon further observation, there is quite a bit more shared DNA in their team situations than you might expect. The Knicks can only hope that they lead to the same result: a championship banner in the rafters of Madison Square Garden.