Twenty-seven years. That's how long the wait has been. The last time the Knicks got this far, Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston were the names, the team was an eighth seed playing out of its mind, and they ran into Tim Duncan and David Robinson and lost in five. This group got here the opposite way. They were the three seed, they beat Atlanta, swept the Sixers, and just walked through a very good Cavs team in four straight.