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“#Madison Square Garden\u2019s aura is unmatched in New York<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n This week The Post takes a fresh look at the \u201cbest of\u201d New York sports history \u2014 areas that are just as worthy of debate, but that haven\u2019t been argued incessantly. Today\u2019s edition: the best arena or stadium in New York City.<\/em><\/p>\n

You could be a star basketball or hockey player from New York to anywhere, or any basketball or hockey player or coach, or any boxer, or any broadcaster or announcer. Or you could simply be anybody who dreamed of stepping into and onto the biggest and brightest stage of them all:<\/p>\n

The World\u2019s Most Famous Arena. <\/p>\n

For the past 52 years atop Penn Station, and on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Street for 43 years before that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can sum it up best with what Frank Sinatra told me,\u201d legendary Garden photographer George Kalinsky told The Post. \u201cHe said, \u2018There\u2019s no arena or stadium in the world that has the aura of Madison Square Garden.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Kalinsky recalls Sinatra, who dreamed of being heavyweight champion of the world, telling him how thrilled he was that Howard Cosell introduced him as \u201cthe Heavyweight Crooner of the World\u201d at his 1974 concert that was called \u201cThe Main Event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kalinsky also photographed Elton John and John Lennon when they performed together at the Garden, and Elvis, and Mark Messier joyously holding the Stanley Cup to the heavens, and Muhammad Ali, and Willis Reed limping out into New York\u2019s forever heart, and Peggy Fleming for a special show on NBC, and of course Pope John Paul II holding 6-year-old Geralyn Smith by the shins atop the Popemobile in 1979.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a majesty to it,\u201d Marv Albert told The Post, \u201cwhatever the event. There\u2019s a history and a charm that no other building has.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marvelous Marv recalls his ears popping the night the Knicks won their first championship. \u201cTo this day,\u201d he said, \u201cI\u2019ve never heard a crowd that loud.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mecca of Basketball.<\/p>\n

Albert, Brooklyn-born, was enlisted to provide reports on the \u201cFight of the Century\u201d \u2014 Ali-Frazier I \u2014 for WNBC radio. Kalinsky had trained Sinatra for his photography duties for Life Magazine. \u201cThe Ali entrance, and walking into the ring,\u201d Albert said, \u201cthat was a moment that I won\u2019t forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeff Van Gundy spent 13 seasons on the Knicks bench as an assistant or as head coach. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe tunnel,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cI think the tunnel represented history, and all the incredible events that had ever taken place there. Secondly, it was the great moments \u2014 Willis\u2019 return, Stanley Cup championship when I was there, to see Mike Keenan flying down the hallway before our game<\/a> when they had the parade riding a motorcycle in the Garden, right down the hallways \u2026 the [Patrick] Ewing tip-dunk to put us in the [1994] Finals \u2026 Larry Johnson\u2019s four-point play. <\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd then the thing I loved most about coaching there in particular was the passion of the fan base. It was an incredible help to a coaching staff in that you could have won seven, eight in a row back in those days, and if you came out and played a lackluster first quarter, they were gonna let you know. And so you didn\u2019t have to be the one to always try to prod the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Gundy recalls how the electricity could crackle in the Garden. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d have to say Larry Johnson\u2019s four-point play, and Pat Riley\u2019s return [as Heat coach], for far different reasons,\u201d he said. \u201cBoth of those evoked this incredible intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a decade, Adam Graves basked in the warmth of that incredible intensity from the Blue Seaters who worship at the altar of the Rangers. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe first time I stepped onto Garden ice, the brightness of the lights and the energy of the building was overwhelming,\u201d Graves said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to put into words. It\u2019s a special feeling. I quickly realized how privileged I was as a Ranger to call Madison Square Garden home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Garden rocked during the Big East Conference\u2019s heyday \u2014 when Ewing and Chris Mullin and Pearl Washington and Eddie Pinckney played and Lou Carnesecca and Big John Thompson and Rollie Massimino and Jim Boeheim and Jim Calhoun coached.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you step onto the court at MSG, you are stepping into the greatest arena in the greatest city in the world,\u201d Carnesecca said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been so many great moments for me, from the first time I coached there in 1950 to my first Big East Championship in 1982 \u2014 the Sweater Game and my retirement banner going up to the Garden rafters in 2001.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an honor to take the same court as so many great coaches like Joe Lapchick, Clair Bee, Nat Holman and Frank McGuire.\u201d<\/p>\n

You could be a young, wide-eyed ring announcer when Roberto Duran got ready to rummmmblllle over Davey Moore for the junior welterweight title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere I was on the hallowed ground, the Garden, where some of greatest fights in boxing history took place \u2026 in the very same ring that Ali and Frazier faced each other twice, along with so many other legends of the sport,\u201d Michael Buffer told The Post. \u201cI thought I\u2019d died and gone to heaven. I didn\u2019t know, or even dare to dream, that over the next four decades I\u2019d experience that thrill so many more times.\u201d<\/p>\n

You could be Duke legend Mike Krzyzewski honored after beating St. John\u2019s for his 1,000th win. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis,\u201d Coach K said, \u201cis the palace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Palace Theatre of New York sports, where Michael and Kobe always gave command performances. <\/p>\n

Garden of dreams.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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