And you couldn't help but think that the result wasn't terrible for Knicks fans, that as much as they came to see their team win, they'd woundup witnessing the other thing they'd hoped to witness, which was basketball's greatest player in his greatest basketball-playing prime.
"How he'd gone into the hills, how he woundup crossing the border I have no idea, but never in the year we've been in correspondence has he indicated any interest in covering Iran, " she told the Associated Press, adding that Mr Bauer did not speak Farsi.