New York Knicks: Five best moments against Michael Jordan

4. Forcing Game 7 in ’92

For all of the times Michael Jordan knocked the Knicks out of the playoffs, in 1992, New York certainly gained his respect in defeat. A rough-and-tumble Knicks team forced the Bulls to the brink of elimination in a contentious seven-game series. That Riley-led team is the only squad, other than the Indiana Pacers in 1997-98, to extend a series against the dynasty Bulls to seven games.

The Knicks forced a Game 7 by winning in comeback fashion at a raucous Madison Square Garden in Game 6. Unleashing a 13-0 run to start the fourth quarter, New York erased a two-point Chicago lead to take control of the game and force the decisive contest back in Chicago.

If you were lucky enough to be standing and cheering in the Garden at the end of Game 6 that year, before the Bulls were a true dynasty, with the Knicks one win away from knocking them off the top of the basketball world, you would have thought this was the beginning of a rivalry that would see New York and Chicago trade barbs each spring.

Unfortunately, other than their 2-0 series lead the following year in the Eastern Conference Finals, with Jordan in the lineup, the Knicks were never able to present a true threat again to dethroning them, like they did in May of 1992.