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1997-98 New York Knicks Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 43-39, Finished 2nd in NBA Atlantic Division

Coach: Jeff Van Gundy (43-39)

Executive: Ernie Grunfeld

PTS/G: 91.6 (25th of 29) Opp PTS/G: 89.1 (2nd of 29)

SRS: 2.74 (11th of 29) Pace: 88.2 (25th of 29)

Off Rtg: 103.0 (20th of 29) Def Rtg: 100.3 (4th of 29) Net Rtg: +2.8 (11th of 29)

Expected W-L: 49-33 (11th of 29)

Preseason Odds: Championship +1000, Over-Under 53.5

Arena: Madison Square Garden (IV) Attendance: 810,283 (5th of 29)

NBA 1998 Playoffs:
Won NBA Eastern Conference First Round (3-2) versus Miami Heat (Series Stats)
Lost NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (1-4) versus Indiana Pacers (Series Stats)

Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

1. Oct 31 @ CHH, NYK (1-0) beat CHH, 97-85

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date		Exp	College
13	Anthony Bowie	SG	6-6	190	November 9, 1963	us	7	Oklahoma
1	Chris Childs	PG	6-3	195	November 20, 1967	us	3	Boise State
35	Terry Cummings	PF	6-9	220	March 15, 1961	us	15	DePaul
4	Ben Davis	PF	6-9	240	December 26, 1972	us	1	Kansas, Arizona
14	Chris Dudley	C	6-11	235	February 22, 1965	us	10	Yale
33	Patrick Ewing	C	7-0	240	August 5, 1962	jm	12	Georgetown
20	Allan Houston	SG	6-6	200	April 20, 1971	us	4	Tennessee
2	Larry Johnson	SF	6-7	250	March 14, 1969	us	6	Odessa College, UNLV
42	Chris Mills	SF	6-6	215	January 25, 1970	us	4	Kentucky, Arizona
8	Pete Myers	SG	6-6	180	September 15, 1963	us	8	Little Rock
34	Charles Oakley	PF	6-9	225	December 18, 1963	us	12	Virginia Union University
3	John Starks	SG	6-5	180	August 10, 1965	us	8	Oklahoma State
7	Brooks Thompson	PG	6-4	193	July 19, 1970	us	3	Texas A&M, Oklahoma State
21	Charlie Ward	PG	6-2	190	October 12, 1970	us	3	Florida State
52	Buck Williams	PF	6-8	215	March 8, 1960	us	16	Maryland
32	Herb Williams	PF	6-10	242	February 16, 1958	us	16	Ohio State

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game (except for MP, which are total) and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

Team Misc

Per Game

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Allan Houston	26	82	82	34.7	7.0	15.6	.447	1.0	2.6	.385	6.0	13.0	.460	.479	3.5	4.1	.851	0.5	2.8	3.3	2.6	0.8	0.3	2.4	2.5	18.4
2	Charles Oakley	34	79	79	34.6	3.9	8.8	.440	0.0	0.1	.000	3.9	8.8	.444	.440	1.2	1.4	.851	2.8	6.4	9.2	2.5	1.6	0.3	1.6	3.5	9.0
3	Larry Johnson	28	70	70	34.5	6.1	12.6	.485	0.2	0.9	.238	5.9	11.7	.504	.494	3.1	4.0	.756	2.5	3.2	5.7	2.1	0.6	0.2	1.8	2.8	15.5
4	Patrick Ewing	35	26	26	32.6	7.8	15.5	.504	0.0	0.1	.000	7.8	15.4	.506	.504	5.2	7.2	.720	2.3	7.9	10.2	1.1	0.6	2.2	3.0	2.8	20.8
5	Charlie Ward	27	82	82	28.3	2.9	6.3	.455	1.0	2.6	.377	1.9	3.7	.512	.534	1.1	1.4	.805	0.4	3.0	3.3	5.7	1.8	0.5	2.1	2.4	7.8
6	Chris Mills	28	80	29	27.3	3.7	8.4	.433	0.5	1.7	.292	3.2	6.7	.468	.462	1.9	2.4	.804	1.5	3.6	5.1	1.7	0.6	0.4	1.3	2.7	9.7
7	John Starks	32	82	10	26.7	4.5	11.5	.393	1.6	4.9	.327	3.0	6.7	.441	.461	2.3	2.9	.787	0.6	2.2	2.8	2.7	1.0	0.1	1.7	2.5	12.9
8	Chris Childs	30	68	0	23.5	2.2	5.2	.421	0.4	1.3	.310	1.8	3.9	.457	.459	1.5	1.9	.825	0.4	2.0	2.4	3.9	0.8	0.1	1.5	2.6	6.3
9	Buck Williams	37	41	6	18.0	1.8	3.6	.503	0.0	0.0		1.8	3.6	.503	.503	1.3	1.7	.732	1.9	2.6	4.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.9	2.3	4.9
10	Terry Cummings	36	30	1	17.6	3.4	7.2	.477	0.0	0.0		3.4	7.2	.477	.477	0.9	1.3	.700	1.4	3.1	4.5	0.9	0.5	0.2	1.1	2.6	7.8
11	Chris Dudley	32	51	22	16.8	1.1	2.8	.406	0.0	0.0		1.1	2.8	.406	.406	0.8	1.8	.446	2.1	3.3	5.4	0.4	0.3	1.0	0.9	2.7	3.1
12	Anthony Bowie	34	27	3	8.3	1.2	2.2	.542	0.1	0.1	.750	1.1	2.0	.527	.568	0.3	0.3	.889	0.3	0.6	1.0	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.9	2.8
13	Brooks Thompson	27	17	0	7.1	0.8	1.7	.448	0.2	0.8	.286	0.5	0.9	.600	.517	0.2	0.3	.600	0.0	0.6	0.6	1.4	0.4	0.1	0.6	0.9	1.9
14	Herb Williams	39	27	0	6.6	0.7	1.6	.419	0.0	0.0		0.7	1.6	.419	.419	0.0	0.3	.125	0.2	0.9	1.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.2	1.3	1.4
15	Pete Myers	34	9	0	4.4	0.6	1.1	.500	0.0	0.0		0.6	1.1	.500	.500	0.4	0.7	.667	0.6	0.6	1.1	0.3	0.4	0.0	0.4	0.8	1.6
16	Ben Davis	25	7	0	1.9	0.3	1.4	.200	0.0	0.0		0.3	1.4	.200	.200	0.0	0.0		0.9	0.0	0.9	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.6

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Allan Houston	26	10	10	40.3	7.6	17.5	.434	0.9	2.3	.391	6.7	15.2	.441	.460	5.0	5.8	.862	0.6	3.2	3.8	2.8	0.5	0.1	3.2	2.7	21.1
2	Larry Johnson	28	8	8	38.8	6.5	13.4	.486	0.3	1.3	.200	6.3	12.1	.515	.495	4.6	6.3	.740	3.1	3.5	6.6	1.6	1.3	0.4	3.1	3.8	17.9
3	Charles Oakley	34	10	10	34.2	2.9	7.1	.408	0.0	0.0		2.9	7.1	.408	.408	2.3	2.5	.920	2.1	6.4	8.5	1.4	1.1	0.2	1.3	3.8	8.1
4	Patrick Ewing	35	4	4	33.0	5.0	14.0	.357	0.0	0.0		5.0	14.0	.357	.357	4.0	6.8	.593	2.3	5.8	8.0	1.3	0.8	1.3	2.5	4.0	14.0
5	John Starks	32	10	2	31.4	5.9	12.5	.472	2.5	5.9	.424	3.4	6.6	.515	.572	2.1	2.4	.875	0.4	3.6	4.0	2.3	1.6	0.1	1.1	3.5	16.4
6	Charlie Ward	27	10	10	26.1	2.3	5.5	.418	0.9	2.1	.429	1.4	3.4	.412	.500	1.1	1.6	.688	0.3	2.5	2.8	6.0	2.0	0.2	1.7	2.4	6.6
7	Chris Childs	30	10	0	25.4	2.4	5.8	.414	0.4	1.3	.308	2.0	4.5	.444	.448	1.1	1.5	.733	0.5	2.0	2.5	3.3	0.6	0.0	2.3	2.9	6.3
8	Chris Mills	28	9	2	18.7	1.7	3.9	.429	0.4	1.1	.400	1.2	2.8	.440	.486	1.1	1.3	.833	0.9	2.1	3.0	0.6	0.9	0.2	0.7	2.3	4.9
9	Terry Cummings	36	8	1	15.0	1.9	4.3	.441	0.0	0.0		1.9	4.3	.441	.441	0.3	1.0	.250	1.4	3.0	4.4	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.9	2.9	4.0
10	Buck Williams	37	3	0	15.0	1.3	3.0	.444	0.0	0.0		1.3	3.0	.444	.444	2.0	2.7	.750	2.3	3.0	5.3	0.3	0.0	0.3	1.0	1.7	4.7
11	Chris Dudley	32	6	3	8.8	0.5	1.5	.333	0.0	0.0		0.5	1.5	.333	.333	0.3	0.7	.500	1.0	2.0	3.0	0.0	0.3	0.2	0.3	2.7	1.3
12	Anthony Bowie	34	7	0	3.3	0.3	0.6	.500	0.0	0.0		0.3	0.6	.500	.500	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.6	0.6

Totals

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Allan Houston	26	82	82	2848	571	1277	.447	82	213	.385	489	1064	.460	.479	285	335	.851	43	231	274	212	63	24	200	207	1509
2	Charles Oakley	34	79	79	2734	307	698	.440	0	6	.000	307	692	.444	.440	97	114	.851	218	506	724	201	123	22	126	280	711
3	Larry Johnson	28	70	70	2412	429	884	.485	15	63	.238	414	821	.504	.494	214	283	.756	175	226	401	150	40	13	127	193	1087
4	Charlie Ward	27	82	82	2317	235	516	.455	81	215	.377	154	301	.512	.534	91	113	.805	32	242	274	466	144	37	175	195	642
5	John Starks	32	82	10	2188	372	947	.393	130	398	.327	242	549	.441	.461	185	235	.787	48	182	230	219	78	5	143	205	1059
6	Chris Mills	28	80	29	2183	292	675	.433	40	137	.292	252	538	.468	.462	152	189	.804	120	288	408	133	45	30	107	218	776
7	Chris Childs	30	68	0	1599	149	354	.421	27	87	.310	122	267	.457	.459	104	126	.825	29	133	162	268	56	6	103	179	429
8	Chris Dudley	32	51	22	858	58	143	.406	0	0		58	143	.406	.406	41	92	.446	108	167	275	21	13	51	44	139	157
9	Patrick Ewing	35	26	26	848	203	403	.504	0	2	.000	203	401	.506	.504	134	186	.720	59	206	265	28	16	58	77	74	540
10	Buck Williams	37	41	6	738	75	149	.503	0	0		75	149	.503	.503	52	71	.732	78	105	183	21	17	15	38	93	202
11	Terry Cummings	36	30	1	529	103	216	.477	0	0		103	216	.477	.477	28	40	.700	42	93	135	26	16	5	34	79	234
12	Anthony Bowie	34	27	3	224	32	59	.542	3	4	.750	29	55	.527	.568	8	9	.889	9	17	26	11	6	2	7	25	75
13	Herb Williams	39	27	0	178	18	43	.419	0	0		18	43	.419	.419	1	8	.125	6	23	29	4	6	9	5	34	37
14	Brooks Thompson	27	17	0	121	13	29	.448	4	14	.286	9	15	.600	.517	3	5	.600	0	10	10	24	6	1	11	16	33
15	Pete Myers	34	9	0	40	5	10	.500	0	0		5	10	.500	.500	4	6	.667	5	5	10	3	4	0	4	7	14
16	Ben Davis	25	7	0	13	2	10	.200	0	0		2	10	.200	.200	0	0		6	0	6	0	1	0	0	3	4
			82		19830	2864	6413	.447	382	1139	.335	2482	5274	.471	.476	1399	1812	.772	978	2434	3412	1787	634	278	1247	1947	7509

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Allan Houston	26	10	10	403	76	175	.434	9	23	.391	67	152	.441	.460	50	58	.862	6	32	38	28	5	1	32	27	211
2	Charles Oakley	34	10	10	342	29	71	.408	0	0		29	71	.408	.408	23	25	.920	21	64	85	14	11	2	13	38	81
3	John Starks	32	10	2	314	59	125	.472	25	59	.424	34	66	.515	.572	21	24	.875	4	36	40	23	16	1	11	35	164
4	Larry Johnson	28	8	8	310	52	107	.486	2	10	.200	50	97	.515	.495	37	50	.740	25	28	53	13	10	3	25	30	143
5	Charlie Ward	27	10	10	261	23	55	.418	9	21	.429	14	34	.412	.500	11	16	.688	3	25	28	60	20	2	17	24	66
6	Chris Childs	30	10	0	254	24	58	.414	4	13	.308	20	45	.444	.448	11	15	.733	5	20	25	33	6	0	23	29	63
7	Chris Mills	28	9	2	168	15	35	.429	4	10	.400	11	25	.440	.486	10	12	.833	8	19	27	5	8	2	6	21	44
8	Patrick Ewing	35	4	4	132	20	56	.357	0	0		20	56	.357	.357	16	27	.593	9	23	32	5	3	5	10	16	56
9	Terry Cummings	36	8	1	120	15	34	.441	0	0		15	34	.441	.441	2	8	.250	11	24	35	5	4	2	7	23	32
10	Chris Dudley	32	6	3	53	3	9	.333	0	0		3	9	.333	.333	2	4	.500	6	12	18	0	2	1	2	16	8
11	Buck Williams	37	3	0	45	4	9	.444	0	0		4	9	.444	.444	6	8	.750	7	9	16	1	0	1	3	5	14
12	Anthony Bowie	34	7	0	23	2	4	.500	0	0		2	4	.500	.500	0	0		0	0	0	1	1	0	1	4	4

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Allan Houston	26	82	2848	15.1	.530	.167	.262	1.8	9.8	5.8	14.3	1.2	0.7	12.3	26.7		2.5	3.5	6.1	.102		0.8	-0.2	0.6	1.9
2	Charles Oakley	34	79	2734	13.1	.475	.009	.163	9.5	22.3	15.9	12.1	2.4	0.6	14.4	15.0		1.4	5.6	7.0	.122		-1.3	2.3	1.0	2.1
3	Larry Johnson	28	70	2412	15.8	.539	.071	.320	8.7	11.3	10.0	11.4	0.9	0.4	11.2	22.1		4.0	2.9	6.9	.137		1.1	-0.5	0.6	1.6
4	Charlie Ward	27	82	2317	15.6	.567	.417	.219	1.7	12.6	7.1	32.4	3.4	1.2	23.6	15.0		2.6	4.5	7.1	.148		0.7	3.4	4.1	3.6
5	John Starks	32	82	2188	14.3	.504	.420	.248	2.6	10.0	6.3	18.1	1.9	0.2	12.0	25.6		1.5	3.1	4.6	.101		0.4	0.3	0.7	1.5
6	Chris Mills	28	80	2183	12.7	.512	.203	.280	6.6	15.9	11.2	10.4	1.1	1.1	12.4	18.6		1.9	3.3	5.1	.113		-1.0	0.6	-0.4	0.9
7	Chris Childs	30	68	1599	11.6	.524	.246	.356	2.2	10.0	6.1	26.6	1.9	0.3	20.1	15.0		1.4	2.3	3.7	.110		-1.7	1.5	-0.2	0.7
8	Chris Dudley	32	51	858	9.5	.428	.000	.643	15.0	23.5	19.2	3.7	0.8	4.6	19.3	12.4		-0.3	1.7	1.5	.084		-4.1	1.4	-2.8	-0.2
9	Patrick Ewing	35	26	848	23.3	.557	.005	.462	8.3	29.3	18.8	6.8	1.0	5.3	13.7	31.1		1.0	2.0	3.0	.168		2.4	1.8	4.2	1.3
10	Buck Williams	37	41	738	12.3	.560	.000	.477	12.6	17.2	14.9	4.6	1.3	1.6	17.4	13.9		0.9	1.2	2.1	.135		-1.7	0.5	-1.2	0.2
11	Terry Cummings	36	30	529	14.6	.501	.000	.185	9.5	21.2	15.3	9.3	1.6	0.7	12.7	23.7		0.1	1.0	1.1	.101		-2.3	0.1	-2.2	0.0
12	Anthony Bowie	34	27	224	12.9	.596	.068	.153	4.8	9.2	7.0	8.5	1.5	0.7	10.0	14.6		0.4	0.3	0.7	.148		-0.5	0.8	0.4	0.1
13	Herb Williams	39	27	178	6.1	.398	.000	.186	4.0	15.6	9.8	3.6	1.8	3.9	9.7	13.6		-0.2	0.3	0.2	.041		-6.7	2.6	-4.2	-0.1
14	Brooks Thompson	27	17	121	11.2	.529	.483	.172	0.0	10.0	5.0	32.3	2.7	0.6	26.1	16.4		0.0	0.2	0.2	.084		-2.9	1.5	-1.4	0.0
15	Pete Myers	34	9	40	16.3	.554	.000	.600	14.9	15.1	15.0	12.6	5.4	0.0	24.0	19.5		0.0	0.1	0.1	.149		-2.1	5.1	3.0	0.0
16	Ben Davis	25	7	13	7.7	.200	.000	.000	55.2	0.0	27.7	0.0	4.2	0.0	0.0	36.1		-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.127		-5.6	-12.0	-17.6	0.0

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Allan Houston	26	10	403	14.0	.526	.131	.331	1.8	10.2	5.9	14.6	0.7	0.2	13.8	27.8		0.2	0.3	0.5	.055		0.7	-1.1	-0.4	0.2
2	Charles Oakley	34	10	342	11.1	.494	.000	.352	7.6	23.9	15.7	7.1	1.8	0.5	13.7	13.4		0.2	0.5	0.7	.095		-1.6	1.6	0.0	0.2
3	John Starks	32	10	314	20.5	.605	.472	.192	1.6	14.7	8.0	15.4	2.8	0.3	7.5	22.5		0.9	0.4	1.4	.208		4.5	3.4	7.8	0.8
4	Larry Johnson	28	8	310	16.0	.554	.093	.467	10.0	11.6	10.8	8.5	1.8	0.9	16.2	23.9		0.3	0.3	0.6	.098		1.3	0.3	1.7	0.3
5	Charlie Ward	27	10	261	16.6	.532	.382	.291	1.4	12.3	6.8	39.9	4.2	0.7	21.5	14.6		0.3	0.5	0.8	.144		1.9	4.4	6.2	0.5
6	Chris Childs	30	10	254	7.1	.488	.224	.259	2.4	10.1	6.2	22.8	1.3	0.0	26.3	16.6		-0.2	0.2	0.0	-0.005		-3.4	-0.2	-3.6	-0.1
7	Chris Mills	28	9	168	11.3	.546	.286	.343	5.9	14.5	10.1	5.2	2.6	1.1	13.0	13.3		0.2	0.2	0.4	.112		-0.5	2.2	1.7	0.2
8	Patrick Ewing	35	4	132	10.7	.412	.000	.482	8.5	22.3	15.3	7.4	1.3	3.4	12.8	28.4		-0.3	0.2	-0.1	-0.033		-2.9	-1.0	-4.0	-0.1
9	Terry Cummings	36	8	120	9.4	.426	.000	.235	11.4	25.6	18.4	7.7	1.8	1.5	15.7	17.9		-0.1	0.2	0.1	.025		-4.4	0.9	-3.4	0.0
10	Chris Dudley	32	6	53	5.7	.372	.000	.444	14.0	29.0	21.4	0.0	2.1	1.7	15.7	11.6		0.0	0.1	0.1	.053		-7.5	0.5	-7.0	-0.1
11	Buck Williams	37	3	45	15.0	.559	.000	.889	19.3	25.6	22.4	3.9	0.0	2.0	19.3	16.6		0.1	0.1	0.1	.131		-0.6	-1.1	-1.7	0.0
12	Anthony Bowie	34	7	23	3.1	.500	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	7.5	2.4	0.0	20.0	10.5		0.0	0.0	0.0	.007		-6.1	1.5	-4.6	0.0

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