KAT Goes Supernova as Knicks Punch Back in Game 2

And yet — the Knicks were still in it. Better than in it. The ball was popping, the cuts were sharp, and by the time the halftime horn hit, New York had flipped the score and walked off up 56-52. The Spurs are the better-rested, home-court, 65%-shooting team and they were trailing. That's the part that should terrify San Antonio.

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“He can’t fuck with me” -KAT

Karl-Anthony Towns has spent a career getting picked apart for what he can't do. Tonight he was mouthing "they can't fuck with me" at the Spurs bench and he wasn't wrong — this version of KAT, in this moment, on this stage, is the reason the Knicks look like the team that's supposed to win this series. Dave Portnoy already called it: the Spurs look totally lost, and New York is just better.

Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, the watch party situation has fully detached from reality. KFC posted a line down the West Side Highway — for a Knicks game — at Larry Flynt's Hustler Club. That is not a sentence anyone has typed before about an NBA Finals. That is what 25 years of Knicks fandom curdled into a single, perfect, deeply cursed visual.

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This is maybe the best thing I’ve seen in NYC during this Finals run. A line out the door and around the corner for Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club on the west side highway for a Knicks watch party 😂😂

Game 2 isn't over. The Spurs are too talented and Wemby is too tall — as the meme-recap notes accurately pointed out — to write off any Finals game at the half. But if the Knicks close this one out, they're flying home up 2-0 with KAT in full villain mode and a city that's apparently willing to watch basketball anywhere with a screen and a pulse. The Spurs are in big trouble.