With steady, responsible, hurt-but-not-out leadership, Reed set the standard for Knicks captains and shaped the franchise’s locker-room culture.
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Inthe1973NBAFinals,theNewYorkKnicksdefeatedtheLosAngelesLakersfourgamestoone,and
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Reed, without exploding stats, wrote the Knicks’ most moving title story through belief, team and a captain’s hurt-but-not-out soul.
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Willis Reed died in March 2023 at age 80; the Knicks and the league mourned the captain and first-title hero.
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