![]() ![]() ![]() Holzman successfully guided the Knicks to two championship titles in 19 Subsequently, the team began to falter and it was not until the late 1960s when Red Holzman became head coach did the Knicks begin to regain their former dominance. Beginning in 1950, the Knicks made three consecutive appearances in the NBA Finals, all of which were losing efforts. The Knicks were successful during their early years and were constant playoff contenders. The "Knickerbocker" name comes from the pseudonym used by Washington Iriving in his book A History of New York, a name which became applied to the descendants of the original Dutch setlers of what later became New York, and later, by extension, to New Yorkers in general. The team plays in Madison Square Garden, nicknamed The World's Most Famous Arena, in the borough of Manhattan, as opposed to its New York City rival, the Brooklyn Nets, who play in Brooklyn. The Knicks are one of only two teams of the original National Basketball Association still located in its original city (the other being the Boston Celtics). ![]() The team was established in 1946 as one of the founding members of the Basketball Association America (BAA), which bacame the BBA after merging with their rival, the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1949. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The New York Knickerbockers,referred to as the Knicks, are a professional Basketball team based in New York City, New York. ![]()
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