Are Knicks fans the most obnoxious fans in basketball? Well, they are certainly quite passionate, considering every win is the most important win in history, and every loss is the end of the world. Last season, for example, when the team eliminated the Celtics in six games, a few rogue supporters harassed ESPN's Brian Windhorst in the streets of Manhattan. A lone Pacers fan was also heckled around the same time. (Tyrese Haliburton later stepped in to make sure the negative experience ended positively.)
Then, after the Knicks rallied to erase a 22-point deficit in the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s Eastern Conference finals Game 1 vs. the Cavaliers (a comeback of historic proportions), some high-flying New York fans stood outside Madison Square Garden and chanted, "We want Wemby! We want Wemby!" As in: "We're ready to advance to the Finals. And we're ready to take on the Spurs and Victor Wembanyama when we get there."
