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RARE The McDonald's Championship (sometimes called the McDonald's Open ) was an international men's professional basketball club cup competition that featured a representative of the National Basketball Association against champion club teams from Europe , Australia , and South America . The first competition was held in 1987 and continued annually after that until 1991, when the tournament switched to a biennial event. For the first two years, the men's national teams from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union participated. [1] In each of the nine years the McDonald's Championship was held, the title was won by a team from the NBA , but twice by a close margin. The first time was in the semifinals in 1990, when the New York Knicks trailed Italian club Scavolini Pesaro by three points (107-104) with only 30 seconds on the clock. After successfully defending, the Knicks won possession and Gerald Wilkins netted a three-pointer with eight seconds remaining to send the game into overtime. The other close game came the following year in 1991, when the Los Angeles Lakers defeated Spanish champions Montigalà Joventut by just two points (116-114)
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