‘Almost There, Almost There, Almost There’: The Hopes and the Heartbreak of the ’90s Knicks

Twenty-eight years after that 1998 game, we asked three people on the sidelines what they were thinking in that moment: Spike Lee, the filmmaker and Knicks superfan who had a high-profile beef with Miller during this era; Paul Bereswill, a Newsday sports photographer who shot many games at the Garden; and Kevin Tynan, a former college basketball player from Long Island who attended games with his father throughout the 1990s.

By Katherine CusumanoJune 12, 2026