Some Knicks fan somewhere is already thinking about recreating one of Madison Square Garden’s most famous signs.
If the Knicks end their 53-year championship drought at home against the Spurs in either Game 4 or Game 6 of the NBA Finals, it would be the perfect time to unfurl the second coming of “Now I Can Die in Peace” — the phrase that Dave Zaretsky, his twin sons Steven and Michael, and their cousin Gary Morris made famous on a sign in 1994 when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years.
Because the 2026 Knicks — like the 1994 Rangers, the first team to win the Cup in the then-51-year-old Dave Zaretsky’s lifetime and the last to win for his sons and their cousin — have a chance to unite eras when Game 1 of the Finals tips off Wednesday night in San Antonio (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC).
Are you a Knicks fan age 60 or older who remembers an airborne Clyde Frazier passing around Wilt Chamberlain under the hoop, Bill Bradley shooting over Gail Goodrich and Willis Reed’s proclamation that “the Lakers wanted us in this series, and they got us” in the celebratory locker room after the Knicks won the clinching Game 5 of the 1973 NBA Finals?
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
