Knicks fans go crazy in NYC after Game 2 Finals win, celebrating in the streets outside MSG
Midtown turned into a sea of blue and orange Friday night as thousands of “happy” Knicks fans lined the streets outside Madison Square Garden after their team won Game 2 of the NBA Finals.
As the final whistle sounded almost 2,000 miles away in San Antonio, the Knicks returned to the Big Apple with their team just two wins away from its first championship in 53 years.
Chants of “Go to New York, go to New York, go to New York, go!” and “Knicks at four!” echoed down Seventh Avenue and motorists could be heard honking their horns in support of one stop.
The party started hours ago as diehards will find their places in the viewing party outside the World’s Famous Arena more than four hours before tip-off at 8:42 pm.
“I feel good,” said Lester Alexander, who was armed with a Knicks flag attached to a broomstick.
“I couldn’t be happier. As a New Yorker, nothing can ruin my day now, my week, my month, my summer,” the 27-year-old, who goes by “Les,” told The Post.
Les, a Harlem native, already has great plans for the Knicks’ potential title.
“I’m going to propose to the most beautiful woman I’ll meet that night. Because I’m currently single. And if I don’t find anyone, I’ll just marry the game,” he said.
Pals Surgio Urnia, 35 and Ken Lopez, 50, also joined in the festivities outside the Garden.
“What I love about the watch party is the camaraderie within the New York culture,” said Urnia, a Brooklyn resident.
“It’s beautiful, it brings it back. It’s a feeling I haven’t felt in this city in a long time.”
When asked how he would celebrate the Knicks winning the title, he answered bluntly: “I’m quitting my job.”
But that would not be enough for Urnia.
“I will go to the show. I will find a new girlfriend. I will have a new life,” he insisted.
Lopez was very polite.
“I will take a week home from work,” he said.
Leaning against the barriers in front of MSG was Nasir Boston, 24, from Queens, who currently works as a security guard but hopes to enter the social media industry.
“The Knicks have us all together right now, all five states, including Long Island,” Boston told the Post.
And if you win the championship?
“No one will work,” said Boston.
Similar jubilation erupted across the city on Friday night as Central Park was home to another viewing party and bars were packed with fans.
The Jeffrey’s, an Upper East Side sports bar, has dropped beer and food prices from 7pm to 8:30pm at their 1973 levels – $73 for beer, oysters, wings and hot dogs.
