Knicks vs. Heat Recap: Road Trip

March 1st, 2011 by Jared Dubin Leave a reply »
MIAMI ROAD TRIP: PARTY LIKE IT’S 1999

A friend of mine from college called me up in October and said, “Dubin, I got two tickets to Knicks-Heat in Miami on February 27th. If you can get down here, the second ticket is yours.”

That phone call was the inspiration for what became a week-long trip back to my old stomping grounds in Miami, starting last Monday in Coral Gables, continuing most of the week in South Beach and ending this past Sunday in American Airlines Arena.

I have so many thoughts on this game that I just had to document them.  Some of them are poignant;, some of them are rambling and incoherent; all of them are somehow related to the Knicks’ 91-96 throwback victory over the Heat.

1. I’m not saying it affected the way they played, but I know for a fact that two prominent Heat players were at Liv in the Fountain Bleu on Friday night until at least 4 a.m. when I left.

They had just ordered something like their fifth round of four bottles of champagne and were showing no signs of leaving. Not sure if either one of them was even drinking it (it was absolutely impossible to even ge ...

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