Only two 8-seeds have reached the NBA finals before. In this video, let’s compare and contrast these two teams and how they were similar. Enjoy!
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Knickerbockers💯🧡💙
1999 Knicks >> 2022 Heat
The 1999 Knicks did it against a league that wasn’t truly ready leading to players being generally out of shape but the heat did this while every team played 82 games and against much harder competition.
Sprewell was truly a special talent
2022-23 are the better 8 seed no doubt 🔥🔥🔥
Jaylen Brown your next video Andy Hoops 🙏🙏🙏
I was hoping a video like this would come up. Those Cinderella runs were insane
the Celtics won a championship as an 8th seed when Bill Russell was a Player-Coach WHY DOES EVERYONE LIE ABOUT THIS 8TH SEED STUFF IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE THE CELTICS DID IT. do you know how much it pains me, a Lakers fan to have to say that fml
The 2023 Heat are definitely the better 8th seed. Really shouldn't be a question, the Eastern Conference in 1999 was the weaker conference at the time (and would be for the next 20 years) facing good but not special Heat + Pacers teams, while the Heat in 2023 faced off against both a Bucks and Celtics team breaking NBA/franchise records.
What Giannis-Jrue-Lopez and Tatum-Brown are doing now is soooo much better than what Mourning-Hardaway and Reggie-Rose-Smits were doing.
Sorry to ruin the oldheads' day for saying that but it's the blunt truth
The 1999 and 2023 have a lot in common as both the spurs and nuggets are former ABA teams winning their first championship against an 8th seeded team that associates Pat Riley as a former Knicks coach and currently works for the Miami Heat.
People forget that the Knicks had to win 6 out of their last 8 games to even make the playoffs.
Still wish Boston came back from a 3-0 lead I really want a team to do that
Sorry Knicks were a lot worse than the heat in 2023. A lot of people mention the lockout that’s why NYK were an 8 seed. They finished as the 7 seed the year before and beat the heat too!
Let’s not forget the giant elephant in the room in ‘99 that the GOAT had retired and the Bulls literally blew up a 3-peat team that ended up going from champs to winning the draft lottery(immortalized by Jabba The Jerry’s reaction 😂).
Yep the East sure was wide open vs all the talk that it was inevitable that one of the Top 3 teams this year(Bucks, Celtics and Sixers) were going to represent in The Finals.
Aw as a kid in NYC in the 1990s, slow-ass Ewing was still my favorite. My dad couldn't stand him though.
The 1999 Knicks and 2023 Heat have something in common. They had great role players. A solid scorer in Latrell Spreewell, A defensive minded big man in Camby, and a good supporting cast.
Duncan would kill jokic
“He would take like 20 secs to do a post move” 😂
The next video, do "10 teams that never won an NBA championship".
https://youtu.be/JT6BA9iea4o
The 1999 knicks are the real 8th seed
I was a huuuuge Knicks fan (tbs, a diehard Sprewell fan who converted when he was traded) at the time and at no point did I ever expect them to win it all. I was shocked and awed when they took down Indiana.
99 NYK are the definition of grit! And also a big LJ fan thats why im so hyped then
Yeah but knicks was so much difficulty heat was easy and lot of injury in other teams
Miami ran that gauntlet and just had nothing left is all.
2023 Heat were a false 8th seed. They were 7th.
The good old days at 4:13 when the score used to be in the mid 70s with a minute left. Nowadays teams scoring in the mid 70s by halftime is just another normal game😂
Pretty interesting video! It didn't click with me before now how similar these runs were. Shame on me. 😆
you forgot to mention the most vital factor of both series
NYK played on 2-3-2,
Miami played on 2-2-1-1-1 format
Heat had made more difficult run in the playoffs compared to the 1999 Knicks, beating all the top teams with players that has personal achievement like the Bucks and the Celtics but the Heat just outmatched them. The Heat also went more difficut situation in the Finals whereas Jimmy can't play like he was becz of ankle injury same with Bam who had ailing shoulder injury the rest of the series. Caleb also just recovered from sickness and Gabe whos also playing with his injury but despite all these the Heat went out to play that shown more competetive than the Lakers.
I honestly believe the heat could've won the chip. They lost because of their offense and jimmy playing horrible.
Did you know Jimmy didn't have a single 30 point for over a month/9 straight games?! his last 30-point game was the first in the East finals.
Comparing the 2023-Lit sisters mobsonics to 2012-Jersey Shore(Lost both to 2023-TXFH and 2012-KLCDC respectively)
Maaan I loved sprewell, he was the first NBA player I properly recognised in an old 90s NBA book I had! His doubled handed dunks were awesome!
This 8 vs 1 should never happen again this had to be tje shitty finals of all time😂😂😂😂😂
Its pretty comparable and you have compelling arguments for why one run was better than the other. For me I give the edge to the 99 Knicks because they managed to win a playoff series without their best player. Ewing Theory is a load of crap btw.
The Knicks anyday
Dude,,nobody thought the knicks were going win in 99,,the spurs had Duncan and Robinson
All we had to go against that was a super skinny and foul prone marcus camby and the to short to match up Kurt Thomas,,,best case scenario was that we could get to 6 games
Thx for the fond memories. Even though it broke my heart when Oakley was traded to Toronto for Camby, it turned out to be the right move for the Knicks.
nobody thought the knicks were winning the title.
Knicks run actually impressive
Heat had a harder run… once we trade Herro, Strus & Gabe Vincent for Lillard and then sign Dwight Howard the Miami Heat are your 2024 nba champions
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