With the playoffs just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to ask ClutchFans readers exactly where they were and what their reactions were back in 1994 at the exact moment the Rockets beat the Knicks in game 7 to clinch the title. I'll go first: I was working for MTV in Manhattan and rather than go to a sports bar and have to put up with Knicks fans, I stayed in the MTV offices and watched the game on a widescreen from the room right next to where they now shoot TRL. When the Rockets won it, I screamed so loudly that a security guard came running in about a minute later to see what the problem was. He wasn't thrilled that I was so happy about his team losing.
Aside from the Rockets victory, I think the pertinent question is exactly how hot was Idalis in person?
this is a great thread... i , like you, topfive, was in Manhattan at the time... but I was in a sports bar, putting up with the hecklers and the nay-sayers.. it was amazing, my first time ever in NYC, and I was with an entire group from Houston... We were loud, proud, and obnoxious.. we took over that bar that night, but ever since then, I have had a great respect for the relationship between the Knicks and the Rockets... from every trade we have made together, to JVG and Francis... it all goes back to Game 7 1994 it is always my fantasy that the Houston Rockets and New York Knicks would meet again in the Finals one day...
I was in 6th grade, jumping every series at home. My dad got the game on PPV at the house for like one the Suns games. In '95, I was in the Philippines for the Western Conference finals and the finals, i was the biggest Rockets fan in that country.
Smokin'. But it seemed like most of the women there were hot. Great place to work, if they'd paid better.
I was in high school in nine grade that day early i remember i told my coaches in Laredo that the rockets were going to be champs they laught in my face.
in the Summit Finally!After all these years......Complete ecstasy and so proud.Proud of the Rockets and proud of our city.
I was home alone watching the game on TV. After the game I went driving on 59 to see how the city was reacting. Lots of cars were honking their horns and flashing their lights in celebration.
i was also at home...then after we won...i was one of those guys on 59 honking a flashing my brights! GREAT TIMES!!!
You'll have to wait for Isaih to get his phony arse canned. BTW - immediately after seeing Hakeem make the dream come true, after watching Mad Max' cold blooded 3, after it was over I took my son out to purchase championship caps -- which we both still have, and cherish.
Let's see here... In 1994, I turned 10 (on November 30). So I was 9 when the Rockets won, and I could not have been a bigger basketball fan. I knew EVERYTHING there was to know about the history of the sport (much of it long-since forgotten). I even knew the original ruleset that James Naismith had created. I had just finished 4th grade, and attended the Kenny Smith Basketball Camp later that summer (which I would again attend the following year). Oh yeah, life was good. The Rockets won, and I stayed up the whole night listening to 104.1 play celebratory music on my new Walkman. Fast forward a bit, and during the next school year, I watched my Clutch City video probably 100 times (including one memorable 2-day stretch where I had strep throat and watched it over and over and over while playing basketball on my Nerf Hoops goal on top of my door). My obsession with basketball came from two places: 1.) I was disillusioned with baseball due to the strike. While I didn't understand the complexity of the situation (or how important salary caps are), I was just annoyed that they weren't playing baseball. 2.) My favorite football team (Philly, where my Dad is from) had a .500 record and didn't make the playoffs. We sucked. To top it off, my #2 team just committed the worst choke in NFL history the year before, and I did NOT care about the oilers after that. My second most hated team in all of professional sports (that star football team from dallas) won the Super Bowl AGAIN. Though I liked watching the 49ers, they didn't do it for me, and I was in a football drought (from which I never recovered -- football is STILL my #3 sport behind baseball and basketball).
