On a small basketball court in bustling South Williamsburg, Malik Kaiser Covington Jr. is running point guard as he and friends from a local high school play half-court on a recent sunny afternoon. The New York Knicks are in the NBA Finals for the first time in more than two decades, and 17-year-old Kaiser Covington and his friends are playing in the shadow of the Berry Street Houses, the public housing development where Jose Alvarado, one of the team’s newest recruits, spent his childhood. Alvarado is the only native New Yorker on the team and wears the number five on his jersey, a number he said he chose in part as a nod to the five boroughs. “ People keep thinking that he's just a random,” Kaiser Covington said of Alvarado. “He's the most underrated player on the Knicks, in my opinion.”

Knicks fans… we’re just hours from game time. The first NBA finals game at Madison Square Garden in over 25-years. It's been a long, strange journey for the Garden Faithful… and if you’re not among them it might be hard to understand why so many people you see outside these days are rocking the team’s signature orange and blue. Joining us now to explain how we got here is WNYC’s Samantha Max. You know her from her criminal justice reporting, but she’s also been digging through our archives here at WNYC to tell the story of the decades leading up to this moment in New York Sports history.

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