First, the loyal fans who supported the Knicks for decades when the team sucked (emptying thier wallets for tickets, shirts, jerseys) get priced out of the building when New York finally reaches the Finals (by insanely wealthy patrons willing/capable of casually blowing $20k on a pair of tickets to a basketball game, many of them having just hopped on the bandwagon or purchased tix to Game 3 solely b/c MSG is “the place to be” this week).
Then those same loyal, working-class fans get a second middle finger from ownership. Due to Dolan's desire to host Trump, thousands of diehard Knicks fans are denied the chance to gather outside the Garden, watch the game on a big screen, and share a once-in-a-lifetime moment with the community that helped keep this franchise alive when nobody else cared.
Access is reserved for the powerful, rich and/or connected, not the fans who stuck with this team through 20+ years of misery.
it is May 7th 2025 and the New York Knicks are up 2 to 0 in a playoff series with the celtics and the New York Mets employ Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto
edwin diaz takes the mound. you blink. there are now 45 runners in scoring position. a base hit or sac fly will lose the mets the game. bam. he strikes out the next three batters. what were you worried about, you fool? never a doubt. never a doubt at all.