{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6298f82a0567ea001241e383/647e31e94523020011dc53ea?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The No. 8 Seed Knicks Reach the ’99 Finals","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6298f82a0567ea001241e383/1654719873387-44a3e0d22bab09958594fc24192f4947.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>June 11, 1999. Inside Madison Square Garden, Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals tips off between the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers. Hardly anyone expected this Knicks squad to be here — a lockout and a roster overhaul created a season of chaos. Yet somehow, New York stands just one win away from a shot at the title.</p><p><br></p><p>Today, the Knicks become the first-ever No. 8 seed to make it to the NBA Finals. How do they overcome so much in-season chaos? And can they capture their first championship since 1973?</p><p><br></p><p>Special thanks to our guest: Paul Knepper, Knicks superfan and author of “Knicks of the Nineties: Ewing, Oakley, Starks and the Brawlers That Almost Won It All.”</p>","author_name":"The HISTORY® Channel"}