The Dark Side of the Knicks
[The 1969-70 New York Knicks went down in NBA history as one its all-time great championship teams. A veritable sea of ink has confirmed this appraisal, then and through the 50-plus years since. There is one notable exception. It is the 1970 book Miracle on 33rd Street written by the late Phil Berger This excerpt and dark, heavy dose of realism from Ber…