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Fun Fact: The Emirates Cup is NOT the first cup won by the Knicks!
The McDonald's Championship (AKA the McDonald's Open)

The McDonald's Championship (sometimes called the McDonald's Open) was an international men's professional basketball cup competition that featured a representative of the National Basketball Association against champion club teams from Europe, Australia, and South America.

In 1990, the event took place in Barcelona, Spain with the New York Knicks, Scavolini Pesaro, POP 84 Split, and F.C. Barcelona competing for the title. In a thrilling overtime opener, the Knicks, led by All-Star Patrick Ewing, beat the Scavolini Pesaro and then defeated POP 84 Split, 117-101, in the final.

Full game:

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I'd go if it wasn't a Tsunami outside.

JesseDark wrote:

gradyandrew wrote:

JesseDark wrote:So happy our Knicks won it all but now the conversation has shifted to should the raise a banner to rafters. My opinion is that it should be on display somewhere. If not the rafters then have it on display at MSG, I mean its been 52 years since the last championship. Also related to the Cup, a guy on talk radio said it could be improved if the winning team got a draft pick just outside of the lottery. I like that idea, definitely gives the team something to play for.

Don't see how this motivates the players. It would suck for the guy at the end of the bench to get cut for a rookie.

If you are at the end of the bench that could happen anyways. I guess it would be motivation for luxury tax strapped organization to suddendly have another chip to either draft or trade. Imagine if we now had the 11th pick in the draft that's more capital that could be packaged in a trade.

Wouldn't that be the same issue? Imagine playing your butt off to win and then being packaged with the pick to a losing franchise.

I think the key is to motivate the players, not the teams.

I think the way this is done is just fine.
Im not sure most fans really care about it unless their team is in it. Now that knicks were, I can see it.
I don't really think its really a big deal league wise but it just adds some interest.
The Vegas thing? Word out is league is considering playing at historic college areana like Rupp, Allen, or Cameron. Silver said Europe or Middle east would be logistically not good. Mostly they don't stop the season but for one night.

Its not that big an event nor that ambitious. Knick fans showed up in Vegas and it was cool! Lakers drew well year one. Spurs bought in some fans with weird looking garb on. Hey, they had fun. Thats all. IM sure lots of folks like to shit on it. I only watched it becuase it was knicks.

They need to make a bobble head of Josh Hart’s thumb