8. New York Knickerbockers
Last Title: 1973.
Last Truly Devastating Defeat: Games 6 and 7 of the 1994 NBA Finals were more recent, but 1993’s Charles Smith Game might have been the all-time NBA Stomach Punch loss. We’ve never seen anything approaching that final sequence in a basketball game, before or since. It’s remarkable. If you showed that play on a loop in a crowded Manhattan bar, within 15 minutes, it would incite a riot.
Rock Bottom: The Isiah era. Additional Thoughts: Slowly becoming the pre-2004 Red Sox of basketball. Right down to the 45 shameless writers who would release a quickie book if the Knicks ever turned things around and won a title. Wait, I think I just made fun of myself.

Yup, that’s my team.

Bill Simmons: The Levels of Losing - ESPN

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