The New York Knickerbockers are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The franchise was established by Ned Irish in 1946 and was one of the founding members of the Basketball Association of America, which became the NBA in 1949. Alongside the Boston Celtics, the Knicks are one of two original NBA teams still located in its original city. The team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden, an arena they share with the NY Rangers of the National Hockey League.
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The New York Knickerbockers are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The Knicks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden, an arena they share with the NY Rangers of the National Hockey League. Alongside the Boston Celtics, the Knicks are one of two original NBA teams still located in its original city. The name comes from the pseudonym used by Washington Irving in his book A History of New York, that became the name of the descendants of the original Dutch settlers of what later became New York. The franchise was established by Ned Irish in 1946 and was one of the founding members of the Basketball Association of America, which became the NBA after merging with the rival National Basketball League in 1949. In May 1946, Irish approached successful St. John’s University coach Joe Lapchick to be the first head coach for the Knicks. In the first year of the league, there was no guarantee that the Knicks or the league itself would thrive, so teams signed college players from their respective cities as a way to promote professional basketball. The first season of the NBA saw the Knicks make three consecutive appearances in the NBA Finals, all of which were losing efforts. Since 2000, they have struggled to regain their former successes, but won their first division title in 19 years in 2012–13, led by a core of forwards Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire.
They have failed to make the playoffs since, and have not won an NBA championship since the 1990s. They were known for playing tough defense under head coaches Pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy, making NBA Finals appearances in 1994 and 1999. They also won two NBA championships under Red Holzman, in 1970 and 1973, but were unable to win the NBA championship during this era. The New York Knicks won the NBA title for the first time in 2008-09, but have not made the playoffs in the last five years. The NBA title was their first since the 1996-97 season. They are currently one of only two NBA teams located in New York; the other team is the Brooklyn Nets. The Brooklyn Nets are based in Brooklyn and play their home games in the Barclays Center, which is located in Brooklyn, New York’s Brooklyn Nets’ home arena. The Nets are also based in Manhattan and share the arena with the NHL’s New York Rangers, which they play in with the Rangers. They won the league title in 2007-08, the first season the Knicks played in the league’s Atlantic Division, and the second year the Knicks were part of the East Division. They lost the Eastern Division title in the 2010-11 season, but went on to win it in the 2011-12 season. It is the only time the Knicks have won a division title outside of the Northeast Division since the 1970s and 1980s, when they also won the Western Division title.
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