Patrick Ewing was the center, Mark Jackson was at the point, the Knicks City dancers were new and edgy and Pat Riley was young and the epitome of cool.
Twenty-seven years. That’s how long it’s been since the last time the Knicks failed to sell out their home opener at Madison Square Garden. Yet, a little more than two hours before tipoff of last night’s against the Atlanta Hawks, team president Steve Mills said on ESPN Radio that their were about 1,000 tickets that had yet to be sold.
Of course, the struggle to fill their home arena may be the only thing that the Knicks team that beat the Hawks, 126-107, last night has in common with the Knicks team that had more than 4,000 empty seats on Nov.