when did the new york knicks win a championship?
1970 NBA Finals 1973 NBA Finals
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 The New York Knicks and the Raptors had a playoff rivalry in 2000 and 2001 . The Raptors made their first @-@ ever playoff appearance during the 1999 – 2000 season , in which they were swept by the Knicks in the first round 3 – 0 . The following season , the Raptors redeemed themselves , defeating the Knicks in the first round 3 – 2 ; this effectively ended the Knicks ' run as perennial NBA championship contenders , which began in the early 1990s . 

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 New York finished 11 – 1 – 1 in 1927 . Their league @-@ best defense posted 10 shutouts in 13 games . New coach Earl Potteiger led the team into a late @-@ season game against Chicago with first place on the line . New York won 13 – 7 in what lineman Steve Owen called " the toughest , roughest football game I ever played . " Then they won their final two regular season games to secure their first championship . 

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 The following year , the Lakers and three other NBL franchises jumped to the fledgling Basketball Association of America . Mikan led his new league in scoring , and again set a single @-@ season scoring record . The Lakers defeated the Washington Capitols in the 1949 BAA Finals . 

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 New York announced their official All @-@ Time Four Decade team in 2003 which , was determined by the fans of the team . 

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 In 1985 , following in the footsteps of Einhorn who had purchased a United States Football League franchise in 1984 , he purchased the Chicago Bulls as part of a syndicate for US $ 16 million and quickly turned the team from one that averaged 6 @,@ 365 fans per game at the 17 @,@ 339 @-@ seat Chicago Stadium in 1985 into one with an 8 @,@ 000 @-@ person season ticket waiting list . He did so by drafting Horace Grant and Scottie Pippen , and trading for Bill Cartwright to join John Paxson and Michael Jordan under the tutelage of head coach Doug Collins . In 1989 , the team signed Phil Jackson as the final piece of the championship puzzle . From November 20 , 1987 through Jordan 's 1999 retirement the Bulls sold out every game . 
