With one eye on the Denver Double I am turning my attention to the hardwood as well, following the exploits of the NBA team of my youth.

That would be the New York Knickerbockers, who last won a championship nine years before I was born.

I think, though, this could be the year, the Knicks having righted their ship last night to take a three games to two lead in their series with the Atlanta Hawks.

I’m still getting over the heartbreak of the 1994 Finals, when I was in sixth grade and a diehard Knicks fan. Life comes full circle and my son is now in sixth grade, and perhaps he will get to see what I didn’t: a Finals victory.

Embarrassing to say the players now are much closer to my son’s age than mine.

Yeah, they’re closer to the age of a sixth grader than they are to me.

Yikes.