Every year I watch the Eastern Conference games whether or not my team has made it to the playoffs or not. It’s what you do if you love the game of basketball. For the last few years I haven’t actively followed a team, not since I left Connecticut back in 1996. Back then I was a diehard Knicks fan. I was raised on the New York Knicks. I loved me some New York Knicks. When I moved south it proved to be somewhat of a challenge to follow the Knicks as closely as I wanted. Here in the south, southern influences had me following college ball and I still haven’t taken sides when it comes to Duke vs. UNC. My father was an avid sports fan. Typically, quality time with daddy was quality time watching something sports-related on the television. We never missed a Knicks game. I grew to love the Knicks during the early 1970’s when their team roster was a star-studded plethora of talented sportsman. Back then they won two NBA championships with Willis Reed, Walt