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Name | New York Knicks | Conference | Eastern Conference | Division | Atlantic | Founded | 1946 (Charter member of the BAA, later NBA) | History | New York Knicks (1946 � present) | Arena | Madison Square Garden | City | Manhattan, New York City, New York | Colors | Blue, Orange, Black, White | Owner | James Dolan/Madison Square Garden, Inc. | General manager | Donnie Walsh | Head coach | Mike D'Antoni | D-League affiliate | Springfield Armor | Championships | 2 (1970, 1973) | Conference titles | 8 (1951, 1952, 1953, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1994, 1999) | Division titles | 7 (1953, 1954, 1970, 1971, 1989, 1993, 1994) |
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The New York Knickerbockers, known familiarly as the Knicks, are a professional National Basketball Association team based in New York City. The organization was a founding member of the Basketball Association of America in 1946 and would join the NBA after the BAA and National Basketball League merged.
The Knicks are one of only two teams of the original National Basketball Association still located in its original city (the other being the Boston Celtics). The "Knickerbocker" name comes from the pseudonym used by Washington Irving for his A History of New York, which name became applied to the descendants of the original Dutch settlers of what later became New York, and later, by extension, to New Yorkers in general.
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