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Somehow, Van Gundy's team found its game before the post-season. New York finished the regular season at 57-25, tying Pat Riley's 1993-94 team for the second-best record in franchise history. But he was more aggressive and less tentative than he had been in the final minutes of a close game all season.īy winning four of their last five games, the Knicks avoided a second-round meeting with Chicago. Houston did not exactly thwart Michael Jordan, who scored 33. Allan Houston scored 21 of his 25 points in the second half. John Starks nailed a 3-pointer off a broken play with 40.8 seconds left to give the Knicks a 103-99 cushion. The Hornets won the last three games between the teams, and Rice, the deadeye shooting guard, scored 40 and 34 points in the final two.īut the Knicks should be confident after dispatching Chicago at the United Center, 103-101, on Saturday night to clinch the third seeding. ''Do I think they tanked it? No.''Ĭharlotte's only loss to the Knicks came in early November when Glen Rice was out with an injury. ''It looked like they were playing hard to me,'' Van Gundy said when asked whether he thought the Hornets tried to lose the game. The Hornets' loss led to some wild speculation by observers in the news media.
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CHARLOTTE HORNETS ROSTER 1997 SERIES
Finishing sixth appeared to make more sense, because the winner of the series between the third- and sixth-seeded teams would not have to face the Chicago Bulls in the second round. Detroit, which will face the Atlanta Hawks in the first round, won the tie breaker and finished fifth. That was also the final record of the Detroit Pistons, who won in overtime against Indiana earlier in the day.
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They were run off the floor by the moribund Bucks in Milwaukee, 120-100, to close the regular season at 54-28. How the Hornets, who took three out of four from the Knicks in the regular season, wound up with the sixth seeding is a tale in itself.