A woman who dragged a roll case about Seventh Avenue in Manhattan stopped on Wednesday evening in front of a wild view: hundreds of people, jumping up and down, screaming and cheers. She asked a group of police officers what was going on.
“The Knicks,” said one of the officers.
“Oh,” she replied, before she waded through the euphoric crowd in the direction of Penn Station.
Spring of spring in New York are everywhere. Cherry blossoms in Brooklyn, sunbathing in Central Park and, in recent years, after decades of relative hibernation, the Knicks in the Play -offs.
“This is phenomenal,” said Ann Powell, a manager of Mount Vernon, NY, who attended the free viewing party of the team outside Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. “The atmosphere is just electric. Nobody believed that we had a chance – none of the media, the experts, nobody except us. We always believe. But I am also a bit in shock.”
The surprise of Mrs. Powell was the product of the stunning, last minute of the Knicks, at the last moment of the victory at the Boston Celtics in Game 2 of the second round of the NBA play-offs. It followed an equally unexpected, last-minute, Come-From-Behind victory in game 1, both in Boston, while the Knicks took over control of the best-of-seven series. They are the first team in the history of NBA that has been completed A comeback of 20 points In successive play -off games.
Hundreds of Knicks -fans watched both games in the 33rd Street Plaza outside Madison Square Garden, the home arena of the Knicks. With a large screen and a fenced area it looked like a pop-up, outdoor concert. Another smaller screen, opposite Uptown, also allowed fans to see the action. A DJ strengthened the crowd and MSG Ushers and guards, together with police officers, patrol the area.
For most of both games against the Celtics, fans were relatively quiet because the Celtics, the title defender and heavy favorites, jumped to large leads. But the Knicks never gave up and won in an unlikely way. And although the players were in a different state, their cheers from the surrounding Canyon of Staal and Glass – blocks in all directions could be heard.
Many people chose the Celtics to win the title again. The Knicks have adjusted their selection this season and added Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges to a core of Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and OG Anunoby, but no one gave them a lot of chance to win a championship. In the regular season, the Knicks won another competition than the total of the 50 of last year. But it was enough for a dedicated fan base that only has close calls to celebrate since 1973, the last time the team won the championship. Last year, The Knicks Enchanted New York City And the entire metropolitan region with their play -off run.
It happens again, because no local team fascinates New York, just like the Knicks. The region has divided loyalty into professional baseball, football, football and hockey, but in basketball the Knicks are par excellence. Brooklyn is the home of the Nets and the Liberty, who won their first WNBA title last year. But none of the teams recommends the multigenerational loyalty generated by the Knicks.
“There is a certain love that New York has for the Knicks,” said Travis Bowers, a Knicks fan and entrepreneur from the Soundview part of the Bronx, who said he will go to Whobetta. “The whole city comes behind them. Everything we go through, the hardships, the costs – we all know what New Yorkers are going through. But we are tough, and that’s why we love these knicks because they are like us.”
Samen met de legioenen van fans voor reguliere burgers die de honderden dollars niet kunnen betalen die nodig zijn om een Knicks-spel te krijgen, hechten een lange lijst met beroemdheden ook hun toewijding aan de Knicks, waaronder Spike Lee, Tracy Morgan, Edie Falco, Pete Davidson, Ben Stiller, John McEnroe en een gastheer van huidige en voormalige professionele en voormalige professionele professionele en voormalige Professional professional and former professional and former professional and former professional professional and former professional and former professional private athletes. Politicians, who distanced themselves during his fallow years of the team, stand on the bandwagonat.
But the ordinary New Yorkers such as Adrian Lloyd, a financial adviser to Long Island, are the kind of loyal fans who pushed deep into the outside of the outside competition.
“It’s like winning the Yankees, except that it is completely in the Bronx,” he said. “This is centralized here in the middle of the city.”
While the last seconds ticked and the bridges ended the game with a stem near the buzzer, as he had in game 1, the crowd burst at 33rd Street, pushed their hands in the air, mobile telephone cameras that glowed against the night sky. The festive crowd, which mainly consisted of young men, migrated to Seventh Avenue alternately – “Knicks in four!” And Invicvivers aimed at the Celtics-Hoopful that as the series shifts to New York on Saturday for Game 3, the Knicks continue to a four-game Sweep.
“There is so much energy now,” Mrs. Powell, the fan of Mount Vernon. “The crowd grew and grew. But it’s all positive. It’s all about the knicks.”
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