Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / The Last Time Knicks Were In The Finals
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I might have fan. Good morning, it's Kubby Christine, producer
- 0:02Speaker 1: Christian and a lot of happy Knicks fans. Yeah, New
- 0:07Speaker 1: York Knicks. They wrap up the Eastern Conference Championship last
- 0:11Speaker 1: night and they were headed to the NBA Finals first
- 0:13Speaker 1: time since nineteen ninety nine.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Very nice taken.
- 0:17Speaker 1: On either the Oklahoma City Thunder or the San Antonio Spurs,
- 0:20Speaker 1: and they don't play. The Knicks won't play for another week.
- 0:23Speaker 1: In a day.
- 0:24Speaker 2: They're resting.
- 0:25Speaker 1: They're resting, but it's a good little break they're gonna get.
- 0:28Speaker 1: And you know, they came off a little rusty at
- 0:31Speaker 1: the beginning of the Cleveland series, but then they just
- 0:33Speaker 1: demolished them. So hopefully that rest won't make them too rusty.
- 0:36Speaker 1: But what was going on in nineteen ninety nine, the
- 0:39Speaker 1: last time the Knicks were in the NBA finals.
- 0:41Speaker 2: It's always so fun to look back, isn't it.
- 0:43Speaker 1: It's scary to look back because I I don't want
- 0:46Speaker 1: people to feel old, you know, but it might make
- 0:50Speaker 1: you feel little oldier.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Uh Well, I think it'll bring up some things that
- 0:53Speaker 2: we love that we may have missed a little bit.
- 0:55Speaker 1: So in nineteen ninety nine, SpongeBob square Pants just came
- 1:00Speaker 1: on to the scene.
- 1:01Speaker 3: Are you already kids, I can't hear you.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Sorry, that's some good stuff, I know. And then you
- 1:16Speaker 2: cut it just when we're ready to sing.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Well, that was the clip that was in there. It
- 1:19Speaker 1: stopped on its own, not my phone, please. The Sopranos
- 1:24Speaker 1: was big. The Matrix All Day debuted, Yes, what else
- 1:29Speaker 1: was popping?
- 1:30Speaker 2: One thing that I never had. I don't think you
- 1:32Speaker 2: did either. The BlackBerry was released.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Yeah, there were there were two kinds of people out there. Yeah,
- 1:37Speaker 1: they were just your cell phone get people or the
- 1:40Speaker 1: BlackBerry people.
- 1:41Speaker 2: I was always so impressed when I saw people on
- 1:42Speaker 2: a BlackBerry.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Right, like wow, Yeah, and remember how they wanted to
- 1:47Speaker 1: hold onto those blackberries well into the iPhone days. Yeah,
- 1:50Speaker 1: until finally BlackBerry just went on.
- 1:52Speaker 2: He's like, okay, you're on your own.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Google was only a few months old the last time
- 1:56Speaker 1: the Knicks win the NBA Finals.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Couldn't answer many questions. Just haven't learned yet, right, right.
- 2:01Speaker 1: We had asked dot com back then, I.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Think that we did, which just shut down, shut down exactly.
- 2:07Speaker 1: And one of your favorite albums was just coming.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Out eminem YEP, Slim Sadie, My Name is My.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Name is, My name is. We had no idea who
- 2:21Speaker 1: Eminem was until this song came out in nineteen ninty nine.
- 2:25Speaker 1: My name is. I gotta be careful of the dirty version.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Yeah, oh really, okay, I don't.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Think the dirty version would be in our computer. You
- 2:32Speaker 1: never you never know. Have we ever played even a
- 2:35Speaker 1: clip of light of Eminem on light FM ever?
- 2:38Speaker 2: Just now, just now, yes.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Now here's a song we've played a lot on light
- 2:42Speaker 1: FM and this was huge in nineteen ninety nine, the
- 2:45Speaker 1: last time the Knicks were in the finals. Joy, Wow,
- 2:52Speaker 1: every clip on the clip there, they're being cut off
- 2:55Speaker 1: the clip clips. Have we heard that song enough?
- 2:57Speaker 2: I think we know how? You really need to hear
- 2:59Speaker 2: the It was song of.
- 3:01Speaker 1: The year, it was.
- 3:02Speaker 2: It's just that you just take it to the point
- 3:03Speaker 2: of and then you're like huh yeah, and you're done.
- 3:05Speaker 1: That's a story of my life. Yea.
- 3:08Speaker 2: My Space didn't even exist for another four years. Wow, right,
- 3:13Speaker 2: no MySpace, which means no Facebook.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Yeah, so my space wasn't ntil three.
- 3:18Speaker 2: We weren't tweeting, We weren't Wow, we had lives.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Yeah we did. MTV's TRL wasn't even a year old.
- 3:26Speaker 1: The last time the knickt Ye in the finals.
- 3:27Speaker 2: Can't like almost can't wrap my head around that.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Try to wrap in your head around this final fact.
- 3:33Speaker 2: Half of the knicks current roster wasn't even born yet.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay, so that one hurt a little.
- 3:40Speaker 1: All the players on the court for the Knicks, if
- 3:43Speaker 1: you look up their ages, I bet you they weren't
- 3:45Speaker 1: even alive in nineteen maybe maybe one or two.
- 3:47Speaker 2: But they're in the two thousands.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Yeah, unreal. Well, go Nicks again, NBA Finals. You're in
- 3:53Speaker 1: it first time since nineteen ninety nine and Game one
- 3:56Speaker 1: of the finals begins June third,