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The "New York Knicks" basketball club reached the NBA finals for the first time since 1999, crushing the "Cleveland Cavaliers" in the Eastern Conference finals.
Idman.Biz reports that the sixth match of the series ended with a 130:93 victory for the New Yorkers. During the match, the "Niks"'s lead reached 45 points.
But the main event was not just the victory of Tom Thibodeau's team, but the large-scale historical achievements of "New York" during these playoffs.
According to statistics, "Niks" had the best round in NBA history among the teams that made it from the third match of the series to the final. The team's average winning margin in these playoffs is 19.4 points - the best indicator among all finalists in league history. The previous record belonged to the "Golden State Warriors" in the 2017 example - 16.3.
In addition, "New York" has achieved several unique achievements at the same time: the team has won 11 consecutive victories in the playoffs, showed the most effective attack in post-season history, set a record for the total point difference in playoff series, and three series of the current playoffs have been the most convincing series in franchise history. In these playoffs, the "Niks" crushed "Atlanta", "Philadelphia" and "Cleveland" in a row, and the team itself is already being compared by analysts with the legendary champion squads of "Lakers", "Spurs" and "Warriors".
This seems especially symbolic for a club that remains one of the most media-oriented and historically important organizations in American sports, but has lived for decades as a team of eternal disappointments.
The American media pays special attention to the failure of "Cleveland". Kenny Atkinson's team practically stopped looking psychologically stable after the first match of the series, in which they lost a 22-point lead.
Against the background of the devastating defeat, there is already talk about the club's possible reconstruction, the coach's future, as well as new doubts about Donovan Mitchell's leadership qualities and the current squad of the "Cavaliers".
However, "Niks" is now one step away from its first NBA championship since 1973.
