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.
“But the way people talked about Karl-Anthony Towns often went beyond basketball. The ‘soft’ label has always been revealing. It flirts with lazy ideas about masculinity, toughness, and what people think physicality is *supposed* to look like…”
-@xavierjdesigns
@TheKnicksWall@deucemcb11 something extra special about watching Deuce. Homegrown 2nd rounder, out of the rotation for so long with Thibs... we always saw the vision. Now is an invaluable rotation player on a team up 1-0 in the finals.
BTW, Josh Hart would be a beloved New York athlete in any era. Impossible not to appreciate what he regularly provides the Knicks. A consummate lunchpail New Yorker.