There’s only one professional basketball team in the New York area that was always great, every year.
So, New York City, the boroughs, New Jersey, Long Island, upstate, Connecticut … if you have nothing whatsoever to cheer about right now, with your sorry overpaid under-managed pro basketball franchises of today, please feel free to talk trash about your very own New York Renaissance Big Five.
1946-2007 New York Knicks 2,399-2,354 .5047 1967-2007 New Jersey Nets 1,082-1,428 .4311 1923-1949 New York Rens 2,588-529 .8302
The stats don’t lie.