The World Cup in the US is a once-in-a-generation moment, a chance for the country to welcome the world to its shores for the greatest spectacle in sports.

Try selling that line to a New York Knicks fan trying to make it into the city from New Jersey on June 16.

Once in a generation? How about the Knicks in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999? How about maybe a chance to win a title for the first time in 53 friggin’ years on that day?

Please.

And you want spectacle? Keep an eye on that June date, when desperately hungry and insanely passionate New York basketball fans might be trying to get to Madison Square Garden for Game 6 at the same time visiting World Cup fans are forcing an end-around.