The NHL and NBA have a chance to create record this playoffs. Since the NBA was established in 1946, hockey and basketball team from different cities have met in their respective finals eight times. However, neither city’s leaders of the league ever came from the same area.
There are four possibilities right now for that to occur as the next round of the NHL and NBA playoffs calm, in New York, Denver, Dallas and Boston. These are some of the nation’s four biggest industry, home to some of the best-run and highest-valued groups.
In New York, for instance, the Rangers—leading the Carolina Hurricanes 2- 0 in their next- square series—are valued by Sportico at$ 2.45 billion, following in the NHL behind the Toronto Maple Leafs, who have already been eliminated. The Rangers ‘$ 295 million revenue ranks third in the NHL in terms of revenue.

The Knicks, their Madison Square Garden peers, direct the Indiana Pacers 2- 0 in the next round after beating the Pacers 130- 121 in Game 2 Wednesday evening. They’re worth$ 7.43 billion, second behind the Golden State Warriors, who did n’t survive the play- in round. The Knicks ‘ profit was$ 536 million, also third in the NBA.
That’s with selling out every activity in the same building—the Bulls averaged 19, 728 this past normal year, the Rangers 18, 006, playing to 100 % power.
User James Dolan is running the two teams for about a billion dollars despite the differences in the value of cards and marketing between the two leagues. That eventually made its way to the snow and jury.
” From a fan’s perspective, all you can ask an owner to do is spend money, and]Dolan’s ] done that”, Luis Cruz, a native New Yorker who has been rooting for the Knicks for more than 20 years, said last week as the Knicks vanquished the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round.
But the fact is, money spent has n’t produced titles. In the most recent version of the Garden, which opened in February 1968 and underwent a complete renovation, both groups have just won three days. Outside, the only common sight is the colorful roof.
The Rangers have just won the Stanley Cup when since 1940, when they lost in the last to the Los Angeles Kings in 2014. The Knicks won NBA titles in 1970 and 1973, but have n’t been back since losing to the Spurs in 1999. The two groups went to the playoffs in 1972 and 1994, both lost in ‘ 72 and only the Rangers won it all in 1994, defeating Vancouver at the Garden.
The game that ran from June 12 to June 17 still stands as one of the most wonderful days in Garden playoffs history, with three Knicks games against the Rockets and Vancouver’s winning game. All of this occurred as the Los Angeles police uncovered the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson, O. J. Simpson’s father- wife, and another person.
On June 12, the deaths happened in Los Angeles. The Rockets defeated the Knicks in Game 3 on the same day. The Rangers won Game 7 3 to earn the Stanley Cup on June 14, and the last faceoff occurred just before the final alarm for goalie Mike Richter. The Knicks won Game 4 on June 15 with a win.
The Rangers ‘ victory parade traversed Lower Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes on June 17th. Later that evening, Simpson was charged with the deaths, and the renowned white Bronco fight unfolded. As the Knicks and Rockets vied to bounce a 2- 2 link in the best- of- seven line, regional television cameras began to focus on Simpson’s freeway chase 3, 000 miles apart. Viewers watching the Knicks at the Garden had to stay in their seats while watching the game or take the agreement stands to view the NBC broadcast long before portable video players.
” NBC was in a special place”, Bob Costas, who called the Knicks activity, recalled. ” We’d split the screen showing]the action ] in the Garden on one side, and the Bronco making its way slowly down the 405 on the other side. It was strange, to put it mildly”.
Simpson, who died of penile cancer last month, later turned himself in, and the Knicks won the game, sending the line back to Houston, where they just lost Games 6 and 7.
The Knicks and Rangers now have a chance to reach a place where no other NBA or NHL team has earlier, winning both names simultaneously in the same building.