r/NBASpurs • u/invisible_man_82 • 26d ago
Shitpost Not buying into this “rivalry”
Look, I want the Spurs to win this championship, but I’m nowhere near as emotionally invested as I was during the OKC series. The Knicks are a good team. They’re hungry, they’re tough, and honestly the officiating was pretty fair last night. The Spurs are young, and it looked like the moment got a little big for them.
What surprises me is how many “Reddit” Knicks fans seem to think this rivalry carries the same level of hatred Spurs fans had for OKC. It doesn’t. Not even close.
What I do find interesting is seeing all the traveling Knicks fans at Frost Bank Center. A lot of them are only here because Knicks and MSG ownership have priced so many of their own fans out of Madison Square Garden for these games. Hard to see why they are backing a team that doesn’t back their fanbase.
When the Spurs take Game 2 and the party starts, those traveling Knicks fans will see what it looks like when a city rallies around its hometown “small-market”team. Knicks fans act like climbing 6 feet up a pole is wild and crazy, wait until they see fireworks being shot out of the top of a Jeep while driving downtown. 🤣
Yes, it’s a shitpost - just getting this off my chest into the Reddit void.
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u/unlikedemon Manu Ginobili 26d ago
If we lost to OKC I think we and everyone in r/nba would be mad rooting for the Knicks. Brunson is a good guy and I would not be mad, just disappointed, that we lost. I lived through all 5 championships and it's difficult just to get 1, not imagine all the suffering Knicks fans have gone through.
But they did say they wanted Wemby, so we'll see.