It feels the way I hoped it would feel

The closest comparison I can offer is that this feels like I got kissed. When I was a kid who wanted to kiss someone, the few occasions in which I actually got to kiss that person represented a conversion from dream to fact. To want overwhelms the senses. It’s busy, it’s feverish, it’s puzzling, it clouds the vision and rings in the ears. And then one gets what one wants and everything goes quiet. I don’t have to wonder anymore what it might feel like, because it feels like this. It’s a fact about me now, and no one can take it away from me: I’m the kid who kissed Jalen Brunson. I don’t think it’s appropriate to name an actual person I’ve kissed, so I picked the name “Jalen Brunson” at random. I guess I just made it up.

This is now a fact about me. It’s a fact about Jalen and Karl and Mike Brown, of course, but it’s also a fact about me, because the Knicks are a fact about me. I have nothing but love in my heart for adults who chose to pick up Knicks fandom recently, maybe even just for the playoff run, but right now I’m speaking to the sickos and the idiots, because I am one of you, and because the Knicks aren’t something we picked up.

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The Knicks imprinted on us long enough ago that choice played no part and putting them down was never an option. If you’re reading this as a lifelong fan of a team other than the Knicks, and that team hasn’t won a title in your life, then this is for you, too. Eat shit, Knicks only, Knicks number one basketball team fuck you, etc., but this is for you.

One way you prove this fact about yourself is to name guys; to just rattle off the grimy, warty players who populated all those bad Knicks teams of yore. I could shout down at you from a tower of miserable lived experience, but I’m not here to do that. I’m not here to talk about Mirsad Turkcan or Erick Strickland to make some point about myself. I love naming guys, but I’m not gonna waste your time naming “Kelvin Cato” and “Demetris Nichols” and “Courtney Sims” and “Cheikh Samb.” Not even Xavier Rathan-Mayes. Okay? It wouldn’t be fair or productive to make you…

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Publish date : 2026-06-15 17:57:00

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