He wasn’t just the best player on that 1970 team, he was their most important one, the captain, a job he assumed when the Knicks were still terrible in 1966.
The moment was captured first on radio, on WHN, 1050 on the AM dial in those days. Marv Albert was behind the microphone, and he was the only conduit to a basketball city sitting on tenterhooks, awaiting Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
Willis Reed makes a dramatic entrance onto the court prior to Game 7 between the Knicks and Lakers during the 1970 NBA Finals, inspiring the Knicks to victory.“There are times,” Willis Reed told me a few years ago, “when I swear I wake up and I hear the cheers from that night. And here’s what’s funny …”Bill Bradley mourns loss of Knicks legend Willis Reed: ‘He was the captain’They would soon enough, of course.
Said Clyde Frazier on the golden anniversary of that ’70 team: “I don’t ever remember anyone ever telling me Willis was the captain. He just was the captain.”Knicks legend Willis Reed works with Mitchell Robinson at practice on March 21, 2019.It was exactly two days into that captaincy when, on Oct. 18, 1966, the seeds of Reed’s legend were officially planted when he essentially took on the entire Lakers team with his fists in a 122-119 Knicks victory.
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