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.
Knicks are the third team in NBA Finals history to win first two games of series on road. The 1993 Bulls and 1995 Rockets also did it. Both of those teams won the championship.
ESPN says Knicks-Spurs Game 1 had 90% more viewership than last year’s Pacers-Thunder Game 1
More people watched Knicks-Spurs Game 1 than Pacers-Thunder Game 7
Karl-Anthony Towns is writing his name in Knicks history ✍️
KAT is the first Knicks player with a 20-point double-double in a road Finals game since Dave DeBusschere in 1973.