There was an article in today's local free paper here in NYC. It talked about the Nets and Knicks and if they have a true rivalry. Jacque Vaughn, the coach of the Nets, shared this:
When it came to what a real rivalry looked like, the Nets coach looked towards the college basketball world and meetings between Kansas and Missouri and North Carolina going up against Duke.
www.amny.com/sports/nets-knicks-has-long...to-go-before-rivalry
I was on the subway reading it and smiled when I got to that sentence.