getting to the NBA Finals is an
accomplishment in itself and it has to
feel good when you win one what if you
get to the NBA Finals and really let
your team down and everyone thinks it's
you who lost her team the NBA Finals
what then hello everyone I'm purple
French and today I want to talk about
possibly the worst NBA Finals game seven
performance ever in 1994 NBA Finals the
New York Knicks met with the Houston
Rockets Houston Rockets had the home
court advantage for the series but there
were fair hopes that New York may
finally win a title for the city again
for the first time since 1973 Houston
obviously had Olajuwon Verner Maxwell
and Robert Horry while Knicks had Ewing
Oakley and John Starks the first game of
the series started very defensively but
Houston was better 85 to 78 Hakeem
Olajuwon scored 28 points an artist
Thorpe grabbed 16 rebounds New York won
game number two in a similar defensive
fashion 91 to 83 but Houston took a lead
in the series once again after the game
three win New York Knicks went home and
won Game four and five to take a 3-2
series lead and everything could have
ended in game six the hero of today's
video is John Starks a very good player
for the Knicks who also was a good
three-point shooter throughout the
series Stark's average 17.7 points and
5.9 assists John Starks played a great
game six against the Rockets
scoring 27 points dishing out eight
assists and making five of nine
three-pointers New York needed every bit
of that performance as Patrick you only
had a subpar game hitting only 6 of 20
shots but Stark's couldn't had the shot
that counted
hakeem olajuwon blocked a last-second
championship-winning shot attempt by
john starks a lot of people think that
starch was fouled by Olajuwon which
would have been Hakeem sixth foul and
John Starks would have got three free
throws Stark's wasn't a great free-throw
shooter for his career he had a 77
percent success rate but I think he
makes at least you and bring this game
to a tie and overtime and then over time
for the Houston without Hakeem it would
have been hard he could have been one of
the biggest heroes in New York's history
yet in Game seven he became a zero in
Game seven of the 1994 NBA Finals John
Starks shot the ball 18 times which was
the most on New York Knicks team yet he
hit only two of his shots and missed all
11 of his three-point attempts he
couldn't hit a shot to save his life and
it is so much more depressing when you
think that there shouldn't have been a
Game seven if Starks shot wouldn't be
blocked in Game six a lot of sports
personalities have discussed this and
actually mentioned possible reasons for
John Starks meltdown during the game
seven of the 1994 NBA Finals and I could
agree with the issue of losing
confidence when his game six winning
shot was blocked
he didn't just lose the game he felt
like he lost the series and in Game
seven he did Houston went on to win Game
seven
19 to 84 giving Knicks another season
without the championship before it
became seven atrocity John Starks was
making 41 percent of his three syn the
series and averaging almost 20 points
per game but the game seven will be
remembered the most and it's sad because
other than that he had a very good
series
Patrick Ewing didn't have a great series
as well it just starts the big really
bad time to be bad and that's why he got
booed out of New York for the next
little while but not everyone in New
York sod that way coach Pat Riley sent
all the critics and naysayers that
looked hard at that and criticized the
fact that John was still in the game
don't and did not saying that your
counts that we would never got into game
7 if it wasn't for John
in games four and five he had
double-digit fourth-quarter performances
in Game five without him getting 11
points in the fourth quarter we wouldn't
have won in Game six he had 16 points in
the fourth quarter he was really really
playing well in fourth quarters making
big shots and making big plays John
Starks continued to play for New York
Knicks
until 1998 when he got traded to the
Golden State Warriors he made two more
short stops in Chicago and Utah before
retiring in 2002 the bad files
performance didn't seem to impact him as
he continued to play at a high level and
even won the Sixth Man of the Year award
in 1997 he never though made the NBA
Finals again I guess the chances to win
a championship don't really come easy
that's it guys what do you think
why Stark's was so bad in the game seven
of NBA Finals is there a worst
performance in a championship clinching
game out there leave a comment below
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