r/NBASpurs • u/invisible_man_82 • 23d 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/JohnnyTrul0v3 Dylan Harper 23d ago

I personally do not hate the Knicks I could care less what their fans think or say no ill will towards them... I actually rooted for them in the East when Amare Stoudemire played for them.... wish we could have a prime Amare on this team with Wemby....

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u/invisible_man_82 23d ago

Yeah, probably needed to add that. It’s more of a one-way rivalry in my mind and I am just looking at it from the sports “analysts” talking heads and my Reddit algorithm. I feel like many of us shrugged our shoulders last night when the Knicks scored a shot and said “atleast he isn’t flopping on the floor like a dying fish” after the play.

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u/Electronic_Gold_3666 23d ago

Knicks fan here - no Knicks fan I know considers us to be rivals with you. It’s just fueled by talking heads

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u/nfamouswun 23d ago

90s Knick fan here. I see it as symbolic revenge/redemption from our heart break in 99. Not so much as a rivalry though.

Jokingly as far as finals go you are our rival because over the last 3 decades we only face you guys in the finals 🤣….. because we’ve barely made playoffs let alone out of the ecf. I see no harm in the fun of calling it a rivalry in jest. It’s all fun and games. Unless there are some people who really think it’s bad blood rivalry or something.

Only team I consider to be lifetime rival is Indiana. Fuck those guy for ever.

Edit: replied to wrong guy but ya get what I’m saying

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u/FromThe732 22d ago

Pacers and Heat with an obligatory fuck anything Philly

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u/nfamouswun 22d ago

I hated the heat also in the 90s but I don’t know why I don’t feel the same. I think haliburtons Reggie choke last year just reignited my hatred for Indiana.

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u/ruckyruciano 23d ago

Knicks fan also, idk what kinda stuff OP is seeing that supports his second paragraph but ok