While Chicago Bulls guard Michael Jordan may have been the face of the NBA in the 1990s, the era was also rich with talented big men.
On this day, two of those big men put on a show as rookie Shaquille O’Neal of the Orlando Magic and New York Knicks superstar Patrick Ewing duked it out. In the end, it was a three-pointer by Dennis Scott that helped Orlando erase a 12-point fourth-quarter deficit for a 95-94 victory.
Scott led all scorers with 29 points in the contest at Orlando Arena on Jan. 8, 1993. Scott scored 15 of those points in the third period, but that didn’t stop the Knicks from extending their five-point halftime lead to 79-67 at the end of three quarters.