Oh-three down is still the most daunting proposition in sports, as both the Celtics and Dallas Stars learned Monday.
“Here is what I thought,” Red Holzman would say some 20 years later. “Here come those SOBs again.”
And he was talking about the Knicks, the Royals’ opponent in those ’51 Finals, who’d gone a pedestrian 36-30 during the season but had upset Boston and beaten Syracuse to secure their first-ever bid in an NBA Finals — and then promptly lost the first three games to Rochester by an average of 16 points.
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