Knicks Game 3 Meltdown Spills Into The Streets And Onto Portnoy's Timeline

Enter Dave Portnoy, lifelong Knicks guy, who woke up to the carnage and basically had to disown his own people. He said it broke his heart, called the night a disgusting display on the court, in the crowd and in the streets, and floated the very real possibility that if the Knicks do win this thing, the lasting image of the run won't be a buzzer-beater — it'll be a tourist getting stomped on Seventh Ave.

Dave Portnoy

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To see how Knicks fans acted after last night’s loss broke my heart

Then he pivoted to the joke that summed up the whole night. A subway clip started circulating of a guy in a Knicks jersey getting absolutely throttled by a bigger dude in a t-shirt, and Portnoy reframed it as the Wemby vs Brunson recap — Brunson being the Knicks fan in the jersey, Wemby being the hand around his throat. It's a bit, but it's a bit that lands because Game 3 actually did feel like that.

Dave Portnoy

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Wemby vs Brunson recap from last night

The defense from New Yorkers online has mostly been some version of "those weren't real New Yorkers," which Portnoy has openly refused to buy — they live here, they're wearing the jerseys, they're New Yorkers. The Knicks get another crack at it in Game 4, and the bar for the fanbase is now embarrassingly low: don't choke anybody on the 1 train. Knick in 5, hopefully without an indictment.