“It was the country grassroots game versus the city game,” says Pacers broadcaster Mark Boyle. Such identities can never hold for long, but they grant the fans and especially the press a way to see oppositions. If this contest didn’t figure quite the east-west split of the Celtics and the Lakers, it did suggest a distinction between a righteously ruralish midwest (not quite Indianapolis, more a dream-state featuring lots of golden plains and ruddy-cheeked farmers) and a less polite metropolis (traffic, Times Square, the ESB).
SPIKE LEE KNICKS GAME REGGIE MOVIE
Wholly entertaining and wonderfully smart, the movie traces the Knicks-Pacers rivalry. Screening 23 February as part of Stranger Than Fiction at the IFC Center, followed by a Q&A with director Dan Klores, the film will premiere as well on 14 March in ESPN’s stellar documentary series, 30 for 30. This history is recalled in Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. And that said, Reggie was well aware of the ironies he brought to that role, not least being that he was a prodigious trash-talker, one of the most effective ever to grace an NBA floor. That said, Miller ‘s take on the contest is understandably biased, as her brother Reggie was then the star shooting guard for that Holy City, on occasion called on to carry his team over to victory. “It was biblical,” remembers Cheryl Miller, “You had Indiana, the Holy City, and New York, Sodom and Gomorrah.” It’s true, at times the contention between the Pacers and the Knicks sometimes seemed a matter of life and death, or at least a clash of cosmic forces.
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