I was here for the 94 and 99 Finals, the Larry Johnson 4-point play, a ton of other huge Knicks moments. Tonight’s historic comeback is the greatest thing I’ve ever witnessed in Madison Square Garden.
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.
New York City is never more electric and unified and batshit insane — except maybe when shitting on James Dolan — than they are when the Knicks are really really good.
Everyone forgets that NYC is actually a basketball city. More than baseball. More than football.
The Knicks have just been so far from the promised land for so long that people have forgotten.
The die-hards, of course, stuck with them through talking themselves into the likes of Kevin Knox and Landry Fields and Renaldo Balkman.
But I’m talking about the masses of dormant fans who still care deeply about the team but have kept their distance on a month-to-month basis as a defense mechanism against becoming overly attached or hopeful after decades of disappointment.
But they were just waiting to be reactivated. And now — with this extremely likable team on a run that’s smashing all kinds of NBA records with a fearless 6’2” hyper clutch typhoon of a man at the helm — they have been.
NYC has two baseball teams, two hockey teams (kinda) & two football teams.
It also technically has two men’s basketball teams. But the Nets were never really accepted by the city when they moved from New Jersey in 2012, even when they were better than the Knicks and were regularly making the playoffs in the Kyrie-KD era.
It was always just the Knicks, the entire time. And now they’re in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. And have a chance to win their first title since 1973.
They’ll be pretty big underdogs against the Spurs or the Thunder. They don’t have an answer for Wemby (no one does) and the Thunder, if healthy, can just come at you in dozens of different ways and switch everything and, of course, (unethically) mine free throws.
The Knicks probably can’t somehow keep this fucking bazooka of an offense going for one more series. Reversion to the mean is inevitable.
But…what if it’s just their moment? But they’ll have a lot of rest. They’re healthy. They’re firing on all cylinders on both ends of the floor. The chemistry is phenomenal. The basketball gods have acted in stranger ways.
Man I’m not even a Knicks fan and it’s making me a little emotional. I hope they can bring themselves to hope again.
Boca Juniors manager and Argentina legend Miguel Ángel Russo has passed away at 69.
Terrible news comes from Argentina as Russo passed away after long fight with cancer.
QEPD. ❤️🕊️
As this election gets closer I warned you to expect insanity. What I hate the most is finding out that people I consider friends are Racists.. They may like me, but talk shit about other races openly. And probably don’t like other Black people. ‘Make America Great Again’ (By the way America is a Continent including Mexico) 🇲🇽 I’m not Democrat or Republican.. But CHARACTER is more important to me than politics. FUCK 🤡 And those that roll with him.
Today we honor the memory of all those we lost on September 11, 2001. May we never forget their stories – and the bravery of our first responders and troops who sacrificed so much.
One guy goes to church every Sunday, and has been faithfully married to the same woman for over 40 years.
The other golfs on Sundays, has cheated on every wife he's ever had, stolen from vets, and is a convicted felon.
Guess which one the "Christians" are backing?