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The SLAM ICONS series started in 2026, a run of digital covers built around the players, teams and moments that shaped basketball history.
New York and Miami genuinely disliked each other in the late '90s. Pat Riley, a Hall of Fame head coach, left the Knicks for the Heat in 1995, and from 1997 to 2000 the two sides met in four consecutive postseasons. Two of those series boiled over into outright brawls. In the '97 playoffs the first flashpoint arrived and Miami took both the game and the series. A year later the tempers flared again, and this time New York won the game and the series.
When the '99 playoffs began, Miami held the top seed in the East and hosted the eighth-seeded Knicks. Easy night for Riley's group, right? Not quite.
New York became only the second eighth seed in NBA history to knock out a number one. They were also, at that point, the lone eighth seed ever to reach the Finals.
How did they pull it off? By handing the ball to their sharpshooting two-guard and letting him attack the middle of Miami's defense. The floater he sank in the closing seconds of that elimination game rattled around the rim before dropping. It landed right in front of him, his own momentum carried him to it, and he punched it with his right hand, then sprinted the other way with a fist in the air.
No fight this time. New York closed the series on the quiet stroke of Allan Houston, a player who stayed calm in a city that rarely allows it.
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