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They’re Playing Basketball?

Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring

February 4, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

This book has been years in the making. And it did not disappoint. I wasn’t a big NBA fan in the 1990s. College was more my thing (Let’s goooooo Murr-Land!/clapclap). To the extent that I followed the league in that time, I was aware of two things: 1. Michael Jordan’s Bulls won everything, 2. Patrick Ewing’s Knicks were the toughest ticket in Manhattan. As I got older and read more about the league, I began to be fascinated with the Knicks of that time: their […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: basketball, Blood in the Garden, Chris Herring, NBA, New York Knicks, Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing

Jake's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: basketball, Blood in the Garden, Chris Herring, NBA, New York Knicks, Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing ·
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