The New York Knicks great, who died Tuesday at 80, was nicknamed Captain, an apt...
Surrounded by the tool of his trade, center Willis Reed accepted the NBA's Most Valuable Player award on May 14, 1970, six days after he and the New York Knicks had captured their first championship with a Game 7 Finals win over the Los Angeles Lakers.The Madison Square Garden court was a blur of activity, the 1994 NBA Finals having moved from Houston to New York.
I could never be my childhood sports hero. That was obvious, even to me, by the time I was 10 years old and first saw Willis Reed play in person. But I was where he stood in the first exhilarating minutes of Game 7 — that Game 7 —when he authored one of the most iconic moments in sports history. And in tribute, I took the shot that he did.
Athletes who play through injuries are said to “pull a Willis Reed.” The game is called “the Willis Reed game.” When the Garden was reconfigured, fans lamented the loss of the admittedly anachronistic “Willis tunnel.”Willis Reed was my favorite player at an age when declaring a favorite player was important.
Yet Reed was the captain, not just as a title given to him but as a description of the sort of player and person he was.
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