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I am a NBA boy at heart, the players who play in the Association are the greatest athletes on the planet, and everyone should check out a piece I wrote on the Knicks: https://jaysonbuford.substack.com/p/the-knicks-are-struggling-to-be-fun
But MARCH MADNESS is here. So, look, college basketball can be overly sentimental, corny, for hick Midwesterns, and it is not the smart league that the NBA is. Imagine watching Nikola Jokic or LeBron James and that not being good enough for you. NBA haters are, like, a bad financial month away from being KKK members, hiding in plain sight.
However, the NCAA Tournament objectively rules. It shows games every day, every hour, non-stop, teams that you would normally not see play, and upsets, upsets that break your bracket. Upsets happen because mid-major teams get better throughout the year, especially when they play tougher competition before the conference schedules start. It's awesome to when they pull off a shocking upset.
The games are on all day! watch them! BA BA BA BA BASKETBAKLL, GIMME GIMME GIMME THE BALL CAUSE I'M GONNA DUNK IT
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Where were you when Tyrese Haliburton, otherwise known as "Halibooty", "Haliban", or "Hali-bin laden", ruined my night by hitting a miraculous game-tying jumper against the Knicks in Madison Square Garden? I'll tell you where I was. At Blondies Sports, a crazed, electric sport bar that calls the Upper West Side home, Haliburton made being a Knicks fan more excruciating than it already is. I didn't know what was going to happen when he dribbled down the court looking to tie the game but I knew it wasn’t going to be good. Look, the Pacers are a pest: they've been a pest since I was a very small boy, and the rivalry has propped back up in my teenage years and now adulthood. Reggie Miller once called it the Hatfield vs McCoy family rivalry --- an astute comparison --- and the incestuous nature of both of those families fit the similarities that the Knicks and the Pacers have with one another. Both teams have never won a championships in fifty years, both teams have notoriously intense fans, both teams are never the best team in the conference. It's a blood feud that is both petty and overly dramatic. The Knicks and Pacers are surprisingly here on the biggest stage, surprisingly at war. It is a better rivalry than Knicks/Celtics is, if we're being honest. That is an extension of the Boston vs New York rivalry universe, so it obviously gets a ton of media traffic, but Knicks vs Pacers is the type of blood feud that is lurking around the corner, silent until it is time to devastate you. Well, I am devastated after that game. I hate the Pacers as much as I hate police violence because police violence flourished in Indiana.
The Knicks had a fourteen point lead with two minute and fifty seconds left. They don't make leads any more comfortable than that. Mrs. Commas and I were talking about our excitement for our Memorial Day weekend trip. We had paid the bill; we stopped talking to the strangers next to us about the game. It was a sweet, sensual, exciting Knick victory.
Then, Aaron Nesmith got the magnet ball. We missed free throws because being a Knicks fan is like being Sandra Bullock's character in the beginning of Two Weeks Notice. I still don't know what happened; I'm still shell shocked from all of the three's draining, from the entire Garden going radio silent. Indiana has twisted my brain again.
It all starts with their best player, Tyrese Haliburton. He's the kid who knows that he is a cornball --- it can be powerful when you know it because you aren't striving to be anything that you aren't; in fact, you are harnessing the corniness to use it in the most inopportune moment --- and he is proud to irritate Knicks fans just like Reggie Miller did all those years prior. There is the incident with his dad when he got in Giannis's face, and there is the entire stank that radiates through his being. He is the person who does wet willies in your ear and thinks it's a fun thing to do. And, you know what sucks? Boy, he's good. A unconventional talent when the game is blending together --- just like Reggie was. In fact, he's better than Miller who was mostly a great jump-shooter. Tyrese has a slick handle, an ability to see passes where defenders haven't made their rotations yet, and long arms that allow him to be an excellent finisher. He's a load to handle. Better shooting guards, like James Harden, haven't had the playoff moments that Haliburton has had. He's a legit playoff star that might have an extra gear. All Pacers players have the look of dudes emboldened by the crazed, "farm boy basketball" state they play in, and they might have found their greatest creature yet --- a bashful, skilled star that is a present for any Knicks fans wanting a new Pacer to hate. And his teammates are scrappy and cocky too. They know who they play for; they know that a successful Indiana season is when the Knicks get beat by them.
Haliburton did Miller's infamous choke sign -- read up on that if you don't understand --- when he thought he had just beaten us, but his foot was on the line. Still, the Pacers prevailed in overtime. Haliburton is a enemy to Madison Square Garden, a thorn in the side of Knicks fans. Tyrese HaliBinLaden, welcome to the dark side. Next time, I won't pay the tab too early.
@jayson
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