BOSTON — Pumped Knicks followers flooded into enemy territory forward of New York’s Recreation 5 matchup towards the Boston Celtics that would ship them to the Jap Convention Finals.
“Knicks in 5, Knicks in 5,” scores of orange-and-blue clad diehards chanted outdoors TD Backyard in Beantown.
“All we will do as a Knicks fan is hope,” Queens resident Allen Edwards, 32, advised The Submit. “We’ve suffered for thus lengthy, we will simply hope.”
Huge Apple mayoral candidate Michael Blake made the trek to New England together with 20 buddies.
“It’s been so lengthy of Knicks distress we gotta rejoice a day like in the present day,” he stated.
One other member of the Knickerbocker trustworthy took a Greyhound bus to Boston early Wednesday for the possibly series-clinching sport.
“It’s $600 cheaper to get right here even with the bus. The Backyard is a luxurious,” George Quni, 23, stated, referring to Madison Sq. Backyard the place the Knicks play their residence video games.
The Knicks reached this stage of the postseason final yr, however misplaced in Recreation 7 to the Indiana Pacers.
Basketball lovers within the Huge Apple haven’t seen the Knicks within the NBA Finals because the 1999 season, and the workforce hasn’t gained a championship because the early Nineteen Seventies.
Edwards stated Knicks followers can relate to Boston sports activities fanatics due to the lengthy World Sequence title drought the Pink Sox handled.
“They undergo with the Pink Sox,” he stated. “We undergo with The Knicks.”
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