First, the loyal fans who supported the Knicks for decades when the team sucked (emptying thier wallets for tickets, shirts, jerseys) get priced out of the building when New York finally reaches the Finals (by insanely wealthy patrons willing/capable of casually blowing $20k on a pair of tickets to a basketball game, many of them having just hopped on the bandwagon or purchased tix to Game 3 solely b/c MSG is “the place to be” this week). Then those same loyal, working-class fans get a second middle finger from ownership. Due to Dolan's desire to host Trump, thousands of diehard Knicks fans are denied the chance to gather outside the Garden, watch the game on a big screen, and share a once-in-a-lifetime moment with the community that helped keep this franchise alive when nobody else cared. Access is reserved for the powerful, rich and/or connected, not the fans who stuck with this team through 20 years of misery.

Q: The NBA Finals game you're going to, the cheapest ticket price is $8,000. Everyday Americans can't afford these sporting events. TRUMP: You can watch it on TV. It's sort of semi-free to watch it on TV. That's the way life goes.

The countdown to the beautiful game starts now.

This is a fight over who controls the future: the people or the powerful elite

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

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Windhorst: "I talked to some Knicks coaches… When they changed the offense to go thru KAT It wasn't just give the ball to KAT It was also run action off ball Moving Brunson around… Moving OG… Mikal… Josh… They love it They. Love. It. So that engages them on D… So now when they get a rebound… They're tearing off to the other end… Because they wanna get down there Because they know They're gonna be involved… So…why does it take 90% of the season for that to happen? IDK why… But it happened. Not only has it unlocked their talent It's unlocked their chemistry… Now you watch them play And it's one giant party"

see you there 🧡💙

this is the greatest video i've ever seen

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Knicks fans need to organize and make sure James Harden gets back to the hotel safe & sound. Send him room service, police escort to the arena, rename it Madison Square Harden for the next week.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote. “I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’” “I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

An update on our campaign. #hachetteworkerscoalition

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AOC: “America was founded in revolt of British aristocracy. The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. It’s actually the most American thing in the world for us to be fighting for the working class. It’s actually patently un-American to transform our country into a place of kings and landed gentry”

AOC: “We need to be centering the humanity of these people because they are Americans. You’re gonna tell me that someone came here at 2-years-old and has gone through American schools, someone who’s come here with nothing but the shirt on their back and they’ve been doing nothing but caring for other people’s grandparents and building American homes and putting themselves through school, and you’re gonna tell me that’s not American?”

Really interesting exchange, and it's refreshing to see an interview with a politician that isn't full of softballs.

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

not someone you want around kids

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