The city is at a fever pitch as the hometown basketball team sits on the brink of a NBA Championship win -- pushing the Brazil vs. Morocco game deep into the shadows."(The World Cup) is going to be fun... but right now, I'm a New Yorker, so we're going for the Knicks, basketball! Let's take this win. And after that, we can think about the World Cup," said actor Robert Chen, 32, next to the Brooklyn bridge FIFA fan zone.The MetLife stadium, in neighboring New Jersey but serving Big Apple-based World Cup fans, will face a major test of its rail link to Manhattan which has come under fire for its steep $98 price tag.But New York was a sea of Knicks orange as the team closed in on what will be their first title in 53 years if they win the clash with the San Antonio Spurs being played away in Texas."Everyone is kind of craving this victory, and it's excitement in the air... it's contagious," said Knicks fan and Queens-based street cart vendor Angel Diaz, 42."We're gonna have to take one thing at a time, and we're gonna do the Knicks first, and then we go back to the World Cup," added Diaz who said the city would be "out of control" if the Knicks sealed the deal.Hundreds of thousands of fans are expected to descend on central New York for the fifth game of the NBA Finals series with the Knicks leading the San Antonio Spurs 3-1.