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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3922577, member: 289"] 1973 OG: 80 NB: 39 Historical: OG: 740 points, 11 victories and 4 rings NB: 351 points, 3 victories and 2 rings. Another Rite of Spring: the Knicks and the Rangers give Dad an unsurmountable lead. The Knicks won their second, (and last to date) NBA championship. They had a strong regular season at 57-25, better than 13 NBA and 10 ABA teams, but still finished far behind the 68-14 Celtics. They beat the Bullets in 6 in the quarters, shocked the Celtics in 5 in the eastern finals, lost the opener to the defending champion lakers in the Finals and then shocked them with 4 straight wins, handing Dad 40 big points right off the bat. It’s like monopoly money. The Rangers had another strong year: 47-23-8 for 102 NHL points, better than 13 NHL and 12 WHA teams. They were third in the NHL east and the lost in the eastern finals for 29 more points for Daddy. This cushioned the blow of the Yankees slipping under .500 at 80-82, (better than 10 MLB teams) and the Giants falling all the way to 2-11-1, better than only the 1-13 Houston Oilers. But Poppa is still sitting pretty with 80 big points. And George Steinbrenner had bought the Yankees, replacing CBS, who had treated them like a brand name and not spent much money on improving the organization. “The Boss”, for all his faults, wanted to win. Junior now had a hockey team in the islanders but not much of one at 12-60-6 (30 points), the worst record in the sport. That produced no points at all. The Nets were a disappointing 30-54. Rick Barry had jumped back to the Warriors in the NBA and Julius Erving was still in Virginia with the Squires. They were better than only 2 teams and lost in the quarters for only 3 points, so Junior was already looking at a 3-69 deficit going into the summer. The Mets weren’t much better than the Yankees but, not unlike the first half of the 2021 season, they benefited from a flat division: the Cardinals were the only other team not to have a losing record and they finished second at 81-81. They were ahead of 15 MLB teams overall. They upset the reds in the NLCS and then took the A’s to the 7ths game of the World Series before losing for 32 points. That mostly negated the Knick’s championship but nothing could be done about the Rangers-Islanders gap. The Jets didn’t help, going 4-10 and finishing ahead of 4 NFL teams. At least the Giants were one of them. But 39 points isn’t halfway to 80. Life is fair now but sports isn’t. [/QUOTE]

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