NEW YORK -- Amid the possibility of the first championship win for the New York Knicks in 53 years, some New Yorkers are experiencing a sense of déjà vu (albeit, a belated one). Although there is an abundance of nostalgia reels on social media reliving the close call of 1999, part of the local population experienced the Knicks' last championship win, in 1973. (And before then, in 1970.) "It's been a bit of a drought.