NY Knicks: Franchise Doubly Cursed by Patrick Ewing?

May 26th, 2012 by Sean Hojnacki Leave a reply »
I don't believe in curses, but after watching the NY Knicks' persistent futility over the past dozen years, it seems entirely possible that Patrick Ewing has put a hex on the team—and not once, but twice.

As a Yankees fan, I don't know or care about the Curse of the Billy Goat or the Curse of Babe Ruth. Those "curses" do not affect me. However, I do believe that for employees of the service industry, karma is a boomerang. And I agree with Paul McCartney that, "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

And on that basis, it seems entirely possible that the Knicks have been doubly cursed by Patrick Ewing.

First, the mellifluous Patrick Ewing era in New York was cursed by the rigged 1985 draft lottery, dooming the team never to win a championship and be thwarted variously by Michael Jordan, Reggie Miller and Hakeem Olajuwon.

The very first year of the draft lottery was 1985, and as the story goes, David Stern wanted to bring a marquee player to New York to resurrect the franchise, so he conspired with the accountant from Ernst & Whinney to have them win the first pick. See the video where the fourth envelope is ...

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