Let's forget about the nightmare finals for the league for a moment and think about what he said. He has been to both camps and he has come away so impressed that he was able to make the point. That to me is great frickin news. Keep up the good work blazers.
But the last two years the Knicks went to the Finals- 1994 & 1999- were two of the least watched Finals of the last two decades.
Both immediately post-Jordan, right? I'll call that a Jordan hangover, plus those Knick teams were brutal to watch. Throw them against Houston and San Antonio? Meh, even I missed some of those games.
That's driving miles. Flight miles are generally used when calculating these types of things, since only Kornheiser and Madden actually drive to where they're going/playing. It's 2700 air miles. http://www.mapcrow.info/Distance_between_Portland_US_and_Miami_US.html