Reggie Miller and Spike Lee might as well exchange friendship bracelets.
The Pacers legend and the Knicks superfan have come a long way since their verbal sparring matches at Madison Square Garden in the 1990s, with Miller putting his arm around Lee when the director made a brief appearance on the NBA on NBC broadcast of the Knicks’ 123-117 loss to the Celtics on Tuesday night in Boston.
Lee, decked out in Knicks attire, stood next to Miller when Mike Tirico remarked that it was “so nice to see you two together.”
“You know we talk about it all the time, people think that we hate each other,” Lee said. “And it’s completely false. It’s nothing but love right here.”
But Miller chimed in, suggesting that the “love” wasn’t always the case.
“It’s love now, it wasn’t so much years ago,” Miller joked.
“Yeah, it was 30 years ago,” Lee replied, leading Tirico and Miller to burst into laughter.
Lee and Miller became attached in history during the heated Knicks-Pacers playoff games in the 1990s, where the two had several infamous verbal altercations that made headlines across the country.
The most memorable interaction came during Game 5 of the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals when Miller scored 25 points in the fourth quarter and the Knicks blew a 12-point lead, which led to Miller making a choking gesture toward Lee sitting courtside.
Things have warmed between the two, and last year during the Eastern Conference Finals between New York and Indiana, Miller appeared on “Inside the NBA” with Lee sitting right beside him decked out in full Knicks attire.
Lee wasn’t the only Knicks fan in the building on Tuesday night in Boston.
Also on hand for the game at TD Garden was Knicks great Patrick Ewing.
The star power wasn’t enough, though, as the Knicks fell to the Celtics.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
