{"id":4769,"date":"2023-03-13T00:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2023-03-19T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:15:12","slug":"the-new-york-knicks-are-showing-why-fans-cant-stop-loving-and-hating-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/the-new-york-knicks-are-showing-why-fans-cant-stop-loving-and-hating-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The Knicks Are Showing Why Fans Can&#8217;t Stop Loving And Hating Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be a real <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/?s=knicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Knicks fan<\/a>, you must own a fortitude that other team fanbases aren&#8217;t required to have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your patience, passion, emotional disconnection, recognition and resolve must be strong if you plan on keeping your mental capacity intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Real Knicks fans know what I&#8217;m talking about because they&#8217;ve experienced the pain of bleeding blue and orange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Knicks will give you thrilling moments and then rip your heart out in the biggest games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They will dominate the best teams for three quarters and then falter in crunch time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s what I, <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/in-the-end-the-knicks-gave-us-the-usual-hope-and-heartache\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">along with Knicks fans of my age<\/a>, have experienced as we continue to hope for a revival of the glory days of the 70s and 90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/teams\/NYK\/2023.html\">The 2022-23 team<\/a> is led by All-Star Julius Randle, RJ Barrett and Jalen Brunson, who more than deserved to be an All-Star this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Randle, the Knicks&#8217; 2x All-Star is having a career year in points (25.2), rebounds (10.4) and three-pointers attempted (8.3) and deserves his accolades.<\/p><div id=\"first-3581479175\" class=\"first-content first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream2 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700413625220-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700413625220-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barrett is a model of consistency. He&#8217;s averaged double digits in scoring every year, including this season (19.8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brunson, the floor leader the team has lacked for so long, has surprised many with his play. The fifth-year player out of Villanova <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brunsja01.html\">is averaging a career-high<\/a> in points (23.8), assists (6.1) and three-point shooting (41.4%). His play has silenced the doubters who questioned whether he&#8217;s worth his hefty four-year, $104 million contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Knicks also have good depth off the bench with Immanuel Quickley, Obi Toppin, Isaiah Hartenstein and the newly acquired Josh Hart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team is currently in the sixth playoff spot with 12 games remaining and has a good chance at moving up a few spots before the end of the season.<\/p><div id=\"first-2981450752\" class=\"first-content_2 first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream3 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700413989195-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700413989195-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That the Knicks are relevant, and in the playoffs, is great for New York and the NBA in general. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But New York continues to lack what they lost when they traded Patrick Ewing to Seattle in 2000- a true superstar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the lottery balls had bounced the right way, the team could have had <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/ja-morant-learned-the-hard-way-that-being-about-that-life-is-always-costly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ja Morant<\/a> or Zion Williamson; while they both have their issues, they both have superstar power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had drafted properly in 2017, they could have selected Donovan Mitchell or Bam Adebayo.<\/p><div id=\"first-1905117031\" class=\"first-content_3 first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream4 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700414036595-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700414036595-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we won&#8217;t even discuss the selection of Frederic Weis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organization&#8217;s inability to acquire a superstar has put the Knicks <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/the-brooklyn-nets-blew-it-and-knicks-fans-are-loving-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">behind their outer-borough rival, the Brooklyn Nets<\/a>. The Nets assembled not one but two &#8220;Big Three&#8221; teams- Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Joe Johnson (2013) and Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden (2021). While the Nets ultimately failed to win a title with either team, the fact remains that Brooklyn was able to create those teams while the Knicks couldn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That allowed the Nets to steal some of their rival&#8217;s thunder in the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Knicks need a superstar to build a team, organization and city-wide presence around. The inability to find one has frustrated long-suffering fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet despite the playoff droughts, losing seasons, internal turmoil, poor management, bad drafts, horrendous trades and lack of superstar talent, fans haven&#8217;t abandoned the Knicks. It&#8217;s hard to explain <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/despite-the-pain-and-suffering-knicks-fans-keep-returning-for-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the devotion Knicks fans have<\/a> and why the love and loyalty for a team that has ripped our hearts out so many times never dissipates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest heartache is a nine-game winning streak that morphed into a three-game losing streak, which included a bad loss at home to the Eastern Conference cellar-dweller Charlotte Hornets. New York gave fans a similar bout of agita in December when an eight-game winning streak was followed by a five-game losing streak that included ugly losses to the Raptors, Bulls and Spurs, all of whom have losing records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those maddening losses further frustrate fans who support the team in every arena across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day after losing to the Clippers, the Knicks beat the Lakers on Sunday night in a close game that put them back on the winning track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York will face Portland Tuesday to conclude its four-game west coast road trip. They then return to the Garden against the Western Conference-leading Denver Nuggets on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So will the Knicks show up against a struggling Trailblazers team or will they play down to Portland&#8217;s level? Will they elevate their game against Denver or falter to a top team? We have to wait and see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet despite <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/the-knicks-are-giving-new-york-fans-heartache-once-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the uncertainty, heartache and inconsistency<\/a>, we love and hate our New York Knicks all the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we&#8217;ll never give them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be a real Knicks fan, you must own a fortitude that other team fanbases aren&#8217;t required to have. Your patience, passion, emotional disconnection, recognition and resolve must be strong if you plan on keeping your mental capacity intact. 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