00:00I cannot fathom how the New York Knicks fan succeeded in a ground invasion to the levels like we saw
00:09yesterday.
00:09That's true.
00:10I mean, we were there last year.
00:11We were there for Game 6, and it was an invasion, and it was uncomfortable for Philly fans.
00:16I looked into their eyes.
00:17They didn't know I was sympathetic, but I looked into their eyes and said,
00:20Man, I feel bad for you suckers.
00:22What happened yesterday in the city of Philadelphia is going to be studied
00:27because I don't know if we've ever seen anything like this.
00:32Like, I went back and did my research, and I did two researches, okay?
00:36Two researches.
00:37One, believe it or not, I have to bring it up, in 1994, as the Knicks were en route to
00:43going to the NBA Finals,
00:44do you know who they beat in the opening round that year?
00:47Don't.
00:47I'm going to assume it's the Sixers.
00:49No, the New Jersey Nets.
00:50Oh, okay.
00:51My team.
00:51Right.
00:51And so I went back to the clincher just to hear, how did New Jersey sound?
00:57And we all joke, you guys tell me all the time, it's a Knicks town, you invade my building, and
01:01you do.
01:01I fully acknowledge that.
01:03But that was in New Jersey.
01:05That was in New Jersey.
01:06That was in East Rutherford.
01:07And I went back and I studied the tape.
01:10And again, you guys invaded, no question.
01:12Okay.
01:13It was not as bad as we heard yesterday.
01:16Oh, of course.
01:17It felt like a Knick home game.
01:18Dude, your ground invasion of Philly was far worse than your ground invasion of New Jersey
01:24in 1994, a year where you went to the NBA Finals.
01:29You invaded Philly more than you invaded the other team.
01:33But doesn't that make sense?
01:34Because is there or was there an intense rivalry between the Knicks and the Nets?
01:42Not really.
01:42It wasn't.
01:43It was just kind of like the other team.
01:45The Nets were just like, eh, there's a basketball player in New Jersey.
01:48You know, the Giants are across the street.
01:50You know that team?
01:51And people were like, ah, the Nets, okay, sure, whatever you want to say.
01:54Kerry Kittles, yeah, that guy, I remember him, sort of.
01:56He wasn't on that team, but good try.
01:59You know what I mean.
02:00He was probably too young for that team because he was in my era.
02:02So my point is, the rivalry between the Nets and the Knicks was not existent really back then.
02:09So the rivalry, even if it's not about the Knicks and the 76ers, is New York Philly.
02:16And the fact that it's this close, the fact that this 76ers team doesn't even have its own fan base's
02:25support, it made it easy.
02:27Great city rivalry, an easy hour trip if you're in New Jersey, an hour and a half if you happen
02:34to be in New York.
02:34It's an easy trip to get down there, and you know that their fan base did not care.
02:40And as a result, you got exactly what you would have expected from a fan base.
02:45I think you hit on a lot of things that are fair and trying to compare it, but I think
02:48there's something else that's very, very important.
02:50Kenny Anderson and Derek Coleman didn't beg their fans to show up.
02:54That's a good point.
02:55Joel Embiid did.
02:57And I think that almost, because I believe this is true, and we'll hear from Knicks fans throughout the day,
03:02888-808-1019.
03:03I believe there are Knicks fans who purposely showed up because Joel Embiid told them not to.
03:11Like, there was almost this personal...
03:13I hear you.
03:14Oh, really?
03:15You said that we shouldn't show up, that Sixer fans should keep their tickets?
03:19Okay, Joel.
03:20Tiki called and be the bitch.
03:24And there's a part of me that actually thinks there were a handful of Knicks fans who said,
03:29I probably wouldn't have gone, but once that guy told us we shouldn't come, we're like, oh, now we're coming.
03:36Yeah, it got challenged.
03:37Yes.
03:38I think that was a big part of it.
03:40So the other thing I studied besides the Nets-Knicks series from 94, where the Knicks beat them in four,
03:45game four, at the Continental Airlines Arena.
03:48And this one, I don't know how much you guys remember.
03:51I ask you, Sean, because it's actually involving the Yankees, which was either 2004 against the Red Sox or 2022
03:56against the Astros.
03:58In 2022, when the Astros swept the New York Yankees in the fourth game, Astro fans took over Yankee Stadium.
04:05Yep.
04:05And by the end of the game...
04:07I don't remember that.
04:07Yeah.
04:08I was playing, so I don't remember.
04:10No, 2022.
04:11Oh, 2022.
04:12Yeah.
04:122022.
04:13The lower bowl by the Enchant, let's go Astros.
04:15So you remember that?
04:16No, I don't remember that at all.
04:17Yeah.
04:17And I was doing...
04:17I wasn't on the fan, but I was doing national.
04:20But what was weird was they were all spread out until the last three innings.
04:23Then it was like they were all in one spot.
04:24Oh, so it aggregated because of how the Yankee fan abandoned.
04:29But it sounded loud and a little different, right?
04:31A bit more seats, so you have to combine and get all those people down.
04:33It's a little different than 14,000 in Philly.
04:35No, I think that's the biggest difference.
04:37So if you were an Astro fan with a 3-0 series lead, kind of like the Knicks having a
04:413-0 series lead,
04:42A, you got to get on a plane, which is more difficult.
04:43Right.
04:43But B, finding tickets would be even easier than finding tickets in Philly because there's more to choose from.
04:49But even if there were 5,000 Astro fans there, and I think I'm being generous in saying that,
04:54that is still far less a percentage than the Knicks fans that invaded and took over that arena yesterday.
05:0065?
05:0170?
05:02Percentage?
05:02What was the percentage?
05:03Dude, I think it was...
05:05And I'm saying this as someone that was listening at home.
05:08Yeah.
05:08So for anyone who was there, you'll have a better take on it.
05:10We'll hear from those that invaded.
05:12888-808-1019.
05:14But from listening at home, I thought it was 70-30 Knicks fans.
05:17Wow.
05:18But in fairness, when you kick their ass immediately and you give their fans no reason to cheer,
05:25it's going to sound that way.
05:25Well, I just saw the social media stuff with the kids with the Mitch Duncan on posterizing Joel Embiid.
05:32And I'm like, how do you have 20 kids under the basket?
05:36Yeah.
05:36Like, how do you get that ticket for this game?
05:39And so, that's why I felt like it was massive takeover.
05:45But also, and again, I go back to it, nobody left.
05:49Like, the area that you could see on television, nobody left.
05:52Now, maybe the upper decks, people were feeding out,
05:54but you couldn't tell that this was a team getting their ass kicked.
05:58It looked like a home team.
05:59Yeah, so as the game went on, and Sixer fans naturally said,
06:03okay, we're tapping out, we're not going to win this game.
06:04If you made that trip, you're staying until the final second.
06:08Of course.
06:08You're going to drink every bit of tear from the city of Philadelphia.
06:12And I know that the Philly fans are not going to want to admit this.
06:14They're going to say, well, it's the Sixers.
06:16We didn't believe in the Sixers.
06:18It's not the Eagles.
06:19Come back during football season.
06:21Grr.
06:22Right.
06:22This is a black eye for the city of Philadelphia.
06:25Oh, there's no doubt about it.
06:26And they can spin it however they want.
06:27They can act like, nah, it's not.
06:29That's embarrassing.
06:30What do they say to this?
06:32How do you respond to this?
06:34I think you spin it by saying, we didn't believe in the team.
06:36And that's why people sold their tickets, which it's partially true.
06:40I'm not denying that Sixer fans didn't believe in their team, but that's irrelevant.
06:43The bottom line is, you let New York City invade your building to levels we've never seen before.
06:50Again, show me an example.
06:52I even tried to find the Nets as an example.
06:55Didn't happen this bad.
06:56Yankees-Red Sox in 2004, when the Red Sox were coming back, they invaded your building.
07:00But not like this.
07:02Astros-Yankees 2022, not like this.
07:05I mean, I'm going to take this a step further.
07:07You're going to think I'm nuts.
07:08When the Yankees won the World Series at Shea Bleeping Stadium in 2000, it was bad.
07:15I was in the building.
07:16Even that wasn't as bad as this!
Comments