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

How Brunson, KAT, and company are starting to feel more like the last team to hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy at the Garden.

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.

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