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I cannot believe the run these guys are on.
I grew up in southwest Connecticut and my grandma needed the cable package with UNIVISION and TELEMUNDO so we also got the MSG network channel. Despite me being a Miami Heat fan (coolest franchise in the league) I watched a ridiculous amount of Knicks basketball from 2011-2015. They had so many shitty teams during that run. Completely wasted Melo’s prime.
And naturally I grew to be a Knicks hater on account of the franchise being historically ass And also in my face style ass.
But I am so happy to see the run they’re having with these Villanova guys. Brunson might be the truth. He’s having his Isaiah Thomas (the young one) season. Their championship run might be loading. I don’t think they have it this year tho.
+ Hartenstein’s new tattoo sleeve is ass.
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New Yawk. The Big Apple. Greatest city in the world. Best basketball team in the world as a result. It doesn't matter that the last championship this team won was in 1973. It's not about winning. It's about NY grit and determination. It is about paying $400 for nosebleed seat tickets at an aging stadium built on the broken corpse of one of this city's most beautiful landmarks.
I like the team colors. Blue and orange is fun and aligned with the Fibonacci Sequence.
This is god's chosen team. Leon Rose is leading us all on a crusade to Eastern Conference Championship glory. When the Knicks do well New York experiences a revival of the summer of love.
I hope this is convincing.
Mar 17, 2024
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Where were you when Tyrese Haliburton, otherwise known as "Halibooty", "Haliban", or "Hali-bin laden", ruined my night by hitting a miraculous game-tying jumper against the Knicks in Madison Square Garden? I'll tell you where I was. At Blondies Sports, a crazed, electric sport bar that calls the Upper West Side home, Haliburton made being a Knicks fan more excruciating than it already is. I didn't know what was going to happen when he dribbled down the court looking to tie the game but I knew it wasn’t going to be good. Look, the Pacers are a pest: they've been a pest since I was a very small boy, and the rivalry has propped back up in my teenage years and now adulthood. Reggie Miller once called it the Hatfield vs McCoy family rivalry --- an astute comparison --- and the incestuous nature of both of those families fit the similarities that the Knicks and the Pacers have with one another. Both teams have never won a championships in fifty years, both teams have notoriously intense fans, both teams are never the best team in the conference. It's a blood feud that is both petty and overly dramatic. The Knicks and Pacers are surprisingly here on the biggest stage, surprisingly at war. It is a better rivalry than Knicks/Celtics is, if we're being honest. That is an extension of the Boston vs New York rivalry universe, so it obviously gets a ton of media traffic, but Knicks vs Pacers is the type of blood feud that is lurking around the corner, silent until it is time to devastate you. Well, I am devastated after that game. I hate the Pacers as much as I hate police violence because police violence flourished in Indiana.
The Knicks had a fourteen point lead with two minute and fifty seconds left. They don't make leads any more comfortable than that. Mrs. Commas and I were talking about our excitement for our Memorial Day weekend trip. We had paid the bill; we stopped talking to the strangers next to us about the game. It was a sweet, sensual, exciting Knick victory.
Then, Aaron Nesmith got the magnet ball. We missed free throws because being a Knicks fan is like being Sandra Bullock's character in the beginning of Two Weeks Notice. I still don't know what happened; I'm still shell shocked from all of the three's draining, from the entire Garden going radio silent. Indiana has twisted my brain again.
It all starts with their best player, Tyrese Haliburton. He's the kid who knows that he is a cornball --- it can be powerful when you know it because you aren't striving to be anything that you aren't; in fact, you are harnessing the corniness to use it in the most inopportune moment --- and he is proud to irritate Knicks fans just like Reggie Miller did all those years prior. There is the incident with his dad when he got in Giannis's face, and there is the entire stank that radiates through his being. He is the person who does wet willies in your ear and thinks it's a fun thing to do. And, you know what sucks? Boy, he's good. A unconventional talent when the game is blending together --- just like Reggie was. In fact, he's better than Miller who was mostly a great jump-shooter. Tyrese has a slick handle, an ability to see passes where defenders haven't made their rotations yet, and long arms that allow him to be an excellent finisher. He's a load to handle. Better shooting guards, like James Harden, haven't had the playoff moments that Haliburton has had. He's a legit playoff star that might have an extra gear. All Pacers players have the look of dudes emboldened by the crazed, "farm boy basketball" state they play in, and they might have found their greatest creature yet --- a bashful, skilled star that is a present for any Knicks fans wanting a new Pacer to hate. And his teammates are scrappy and cocky too. They know who they play for; they know that a successful Indiana season is when the Knicks get beat by them.
Haliburton did Miller's infamous choke sign -- read up on that if you don't understand --- when he thought he had just beaten us, but his foot was on the line. Still, the Pacers prevailed in overtime. Haliburton is a enemy to Madison Square Garden, a thorn in the side of Knicks fans. Tyrese HaliBinLaden, welcome to the dark side. Next time, I won't pay the tab too early.
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