With a little more than three minutes to go to the 4th match of the semi-finals of the eastern conference between New York Nix and Boston Celtics, the Nix Michal Bridges striker made a short jump in order to give New York 111-104.
After delaying up to 14 points in the third quarter, the KNICKS team clashed to take over the initiative, and it was the last disputed quarter tightly to the series-either New York rose 3-1 or loses the second in a row and went to Boston 2-2.
For the third time in this series, though, Knicks will eventually overcome a deficit in the second half of two numbers and win. The medium bird in Bridges was the snapshot that made everyone in Madison Square Garden realizing what was about to happen.
The world’s most famous square in the world erupted as the depressed Celkus team called a deadline and jam in their seat. Everyone was celebrity alongside fans in the last row on their feet, where they enjoyed what Nix’s broadcaster Mike Brain described the most important victory in the concession 25 years ago.
This is because for most of this millennium, there was no better time to be a fans of New York Nix.
“At the present time, it is an incredible time in New York City and the best time ever to be New Yorker,” says the original hip -hop and bronx legend Joe Joe News. “When Nix wins and flourishes, it is like a feeling of euphoria and magic.”
“But from 2001 to 2020, these painful memories were. Nix would be able to compete at times, but they will always lose games in the clutch and break your heart.”
“They will sometimes raise your blood pressure, but this makes you estimate the past few years of bone.”
Nix fans are sure to appreciate this current team after spending two decades in the American Professional League Championship. On Friday, the Knicks team dismantled CelTics, which was preferred to enter the series, with a score of 119-81 to apply to the East East Conference 25 years ago.
After running to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2000, she spent the next New York for the next. From ’01 to ’20, KNICKs played in only 30 game, where he set a record 9-21.
In the past five years alone, the KNICKS team played in 39 separate competitions, where it won 21. It may not be a full return to glory, but it is at least a return to the importance of the privilege that made the qualifiers in each season in the nineties.
The 2025 qualifying race was characterized by referring to CELTICS, as well as the 21-0 race against Detroit Beestum to win in the 1st in the first round and a series of a series of goalkeeper Gallin Bronson. These moments are now part of Nix’s traditions.
Joe, a player in the MSG match was in the 4 -point Larry Johnson building in 1999 (“I still get a procession that I think at that moment”) is only one of the believers who see his patience pays its fruits.
He says, “I ride my team through all climbing and landing,” he says.
Likewise, Michael Umud, 29, does Clifton, New Jersey, who spent most of his life with his favorite basketball team is laughing.
“I mean, when I was younger, the team was mocking it,” says Ubud. “I have been intimidated by Nets lovers a day. And the values have a good job, this means a lot to me. Like something in the air different.”
For a long time, it was very easy for Nix fans to bully, as the team was often drowned in a mixture of bad management, inefficiency, or weak play in general on the field.
20 years after the success of the last qualifiers with them in Isia Thomas years, the failed promise of the Carmelo Anthony era, the ongoing chants of the owner James Doulan to sell the team, and some of the most severe contracts in the history of the American Professional League (Sorry, Jared Jeffrez).
New York hinted for the first time to return in 2021 when striker Julius Randel won the most improved players and led the team to the qualifiers for the first time since 2013.
Nix missed the qualifiers in 2022, but in that summer, Bronson signed, it can be said that he is the best free agent in the history of the team. Bronson signed a four -year contract worth $ 104 million in the year 22, which ended until it was absurdly good for the player who has proven to be a star and face of the concession.
Bronson has since signed a four -year extension that gave New York a second opponent, taking less than a maximum contract to give the front office more flexibility in the construction around him.
KNICKs took advantage of the shrewd move after a shrewd step, as she got two-way wings like Bridges and Og Anunoby, while Randel and Divinceenzo’s goalkeeper was trading in favor of the Karl-An-Star before the season.
The result was the best team in years. New York won 51 games in the normal season, which is more than 2013.
“It is still surreal because we have reached this point,” says Umud. “I mean, coming from a Knicks fans, I would like to do a good job, but part of me is completely similar,” Oh, this is really happening. “I mean, if Nix can win, everything is possible.”
The last success also creates a new generation of Diehars, such as the 22 -year -old Terrence LaceWell, West Long Branch, New Jersey.
LaceWell comes from several generations of Knicks lovers, but he lived most of his life during the lean team years. He heard stories from his grandfather and mother about the nineties and what was the case to watch the New York battle with the Chicago Bulls team and Houston Ructas.
In Game 4, wearing a Randel shirt and sitting in the last row of section 420, LaceWell got a separate match in the legendary KNICKS in Madison Square Garden for himself.
With Liberty winning at WNBA only in a big championship in New York since 2012, LaceWell believes that there is an additional catalyst for the city, which has not seen the Nix title since 1973.
“We all rise to a competitor,” says Lakwell. “We are very desperate, everyone roles for the New York team.”
The director Spike Lee, a key player in the front row for decades, and perhaps the most famous fan of the team, was in game 4, and the weapons were stretched when Bridges sent the crowd to madness late in the fourth.
When asked about what he is a fan of Nix, he is thinking of returning to the first championship of the team in 1970.
He told me: “That’s it, that’s all I say.” “I was in game 7, May 8, 1970, Willis Reed game. Also, Walt Fraser game. I was 13 years old.”
Lee, 68, may get a chance to update this summer episode group.
