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Article: WINS COMING IN KNICK OF TIME FOR VAN GUNDY?(SPORTS)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 24, 1999
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Byline: STEVE CAMPBELL
NEW YORK -- Jeff Van Gundy didn't notice the sign. Are you kidding? If the New York Knicks are playing, and Van Gundy is coaching, he gets the sort of focus-on-the-task-at-hand, block-out-anything-that-has- nothing-to-do-with-winning-a-basketball- game, tunnel vision that it takes to survive in his profession.
Phil Jackson could sit in Spike Lee's courtside seat at Madison Square Garden, and Van Gundy would be too busy to notice.
Tom Selleck and Rosie O'Donnell could duke it out at mid-court during a timeout, and Van Gundy wouldn't miss a single X or O.
So one fan, in a crowd of 19,763, holding a sign during a ...