Frank Isola

They go to Atlanta, right to Atlanta.

They win the two games there.

Camby has a huge dunk over Mutombo.

It's at the Georgia Dome.

There's probably 30,000 people there.

20,000 of them are rooting for the Knicks.

They come back to Madison Square Garden.

to close out the series so they win game three and four.

But in between three and, they win game three, the crowd is chanting for Jeff Van Gundy.

Myself and Mike Wise, who was at the New York Times at the time, the story had come out that the Knicks,

are pursuing Phil Jackson.

So we asked Patrick Ewing about it.

Ewing would always do his thing with everyone.

He'd wait for everyone to be in the locker room.

He'd have his feet in ice.

He'd have both knees wrapped and he'd be wearing that blue terrycloth robe.

And he'd answer every question, but when he was done, he was done.

But if you got to know Patrick a little bit, you could kind of hang around and get something from him.

So...

I got him to say, I asked him about the whole thing with Phil Jackson.