Willis Reed, leader on Knicks’ two title teams whose dramatic appearance in a Game 7 led team to victory, dies at 80

Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died Tuesday. He was 80. Reed’s death was announced by the…

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