This doesn’t feel real.
All New York Knicks fans have known for the last 53 years is heartbreak and humiliation. We were cursed. Jordan. Starks’ 2-18 in Game 7. Reggie. Ewing going down. Missing out on Steph by one pick. Rebuffing Jeremy Lin. Phil Jackson. Amar’e’s knees. The Unicorn jumping ship. The Zion draft. Tyrese Haliburton. The worst owner (not named Woody Johnson) in professional sports.
Things got so bad during the 2010s that it’s become a running joke among Knicks fans to try to so much as name members of the team. Mario Hezonja. Louis Amundson. Langston Galloway. Andrea Bargnani.
Tonight, the New York Knicks won their first NBA title in 53 years over Victor Wembanyama, the most freakishly-gifted basketball player maybe ever. I am 41 years old and have bled orange and blue my whole life. I never thought this would happen.
And the way it happened.
