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Of
all the thrilling baskets scored in
NBA history, there have been few
more fabled than the two Willis Reed
hit in the first few minutes of Game
7 of the 1970 NBA Finals. Although
they counted for only four points on
the scoreboard, they were worth a
million buckets of inspiration in
the hearts of the New York Knicks...Book
Willis Reed for Your Event
Of
all the thrilling baskets scored in
NBA history, there have been few
more fabled than the two Willis Reed
hit in the first few minutes of Game
7 of the 1970 NBA Finals. Although
they counted for only four points on
the scoreboard, they were worth a
million buckets of inspiration in
the hearts of the New York Knicks.
Prior to Game 7, on May 8, 1970, at
7:30 p.m., Reed, the captain and
main force of a multitalented New
York Knicks team, was apparently
sidelined with an injury that
threatened his team's chances to win
the NBA Championship. Fifteen
minutes later he had become a
legend, and the Knicks were on the
way to their first NBA title.
The words that describe Reed's
playing career may sound like quaint
clich‚s, but they are appropriate:
endurance, pride, dignity,
obligation, hard work, and courage.
For a decade he applied those
qualities day in and day out on the
basketball court, but they were
distilled into a couple of dramatic
minutes at the start of Game 7 of
the 1970 NBA Finals. Two decades
after that legendary night Reed
recalled, "There isn't a day in my
life that people don't remind me of
that game."
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