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Interconference rivalries comprise games between opponents in different conferences. A team plays each opponent from the other conference in one home game and one away game. Intradivisional rivalries comprise games between opponents in the same division. Since the 2004–05 NBA season, there are 30 teams in six divisions of 5 teams each. Each ...
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The Heat–Knicks rivalry is a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks.During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the two teams met in the NBA playoffs four years in a row from 1997 to 2000, with the Knicks winning three of those series and the Heat winning one.
This time, the Celtics were able to win Game 1 at home, before the Knicks tied the series at home at 1. Game 3 was a tough, double overtime showdown in Boston, but the Knicks won 88–87. Once again, Knicks went to the finals and lost to the Lakers. In the 1952–53 season, the teams met in the Division Finals, a best-of-five series. The Knicks ...
This category is for articles about long-standing rivalries in Basketball. Articles about individual matches can be found in Category:Basketball games . Subcategories
Additionally, the teams won each NBA Title from 1999–2003 (the Spurs won in 1999 and 2003, while the Lakers won in 2000, 2001, and 2002). From 1999–2004, the rivalry was considered as the NBA's best, [ 8 ] as each time the clubs faced each other in the playoffs, the winner advanced to the NBA Finals.
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The teams would meet in the first round of the 1983 NBA playoffs and 1994 NBA playoffs, with the Knicks easily defeating the Nets in both cases. The rivalry began to heat up in the early 2000s. With the trade of Stephon Marbury to the Suns for Jason Kidd, the Nets became the class of the Eastern Conference in 2001.