Second-round pick.
Called overpaid.
Called too short.
Doubted at every step of his career.
The single best thing that could’ve happened to this franchise.
53 years since the Knicks last won a title. 1973. Nixon was president. The Twin Towers had just opened.
Someone pops their trunk on a random block, plugs in a TV, and a watch party materializes without a single text message. Folding chairs appear. Strangers sit down. A barber shop and a yellow cab in frame because it's New York so of course they are.
MSG floor seats for this Cavaliers series are running $2,500+. This setup cost maybe $300 at Best Buy. The guy who opened his trunk is currently the most beloved person on his block and the electricity is costing him 4 cents an hour.
The Knicks swept Philly. Beat Atlanta in 6. Now up 2-0 on Cleveland in the Conference Finals, two wins from the first Finals trip since 1999.
8.3 million people in 302 square miles. A playoff run this deep doesn't need a venue when the density is this high. Every sidewalk becomes a living room the moment someone provides a screen. The trunk of an SUV is doing what Madison Square Garden was built to do.
The folding chair might be the better seat.
Knicks were down 2-1 in Atlanta.
Then beat the Hawks by 16.
Then beat the Hawks by 29.
Then beat the Hawks by 51.
Then beat the Sixers by 39.
Then beat the Sixers by 6.
Then beat the Sixers by 14.
Then beat the Sixers by 30.
Then beat the Cavs by 11.
Then beat the Cavs by 16.
Los japoneses ya han creado a otro 'robot' igual que Ohtani.
Este nuevo androide se llama Haruki Komoda; tiene un poder descomunal, también es lanzador y, con solo 16 años, ya lanza a 94,4 mph. 😳
The universe is a time machine and the math on the distance ladder will break your brain.
2,000 light-years gets you Rome. Go to 500 light-years and you're watching the Black Plague consume Europe in real time. At 80 light-years, you catch World War II. At 4.24 light-years, the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, the light arriving right now left Earth in 2022. Someone there is watching us argue about whether GPT-4 is sentient.
Now scale that in the other direction. The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away. An observer there right now sees Earth before modern humans existed. They're watching early hominids figure out stone tools. They have no idea what's coming.
The closest alien civilization is statistically estimated at 33,000 light-years away. They would be watching humans invent agriculture for the first time. Writing hasn't been invented yet. Cities don't exist. From their perspective, we are a species that just figured out how to plant wheat.
Here's what makes the physics cruel. To actually see a human-sized object on Earth from just 20 light-years away, you'd need a telescope array roughly 100 million kilometers across. That's more than half the diameter of Earth's orbit around the Sun. To see Rome from 2,000 light-years? The optics required would be larger than our solar system.
The light is real. The photons that bounced off Roman soldiers are still traveling outward at 300,000 km/s right now, carrying that information forever. The universe has a perfect recording of every moment in Earth's history, expanding in all directions at the speed of light.
The problem was never distance. The problem is that no civilization, no matter how advanced, can build a lens big enough to read it.