The rivalry between the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets should heat up over the next few years. The Nets are one of the premier teams in the Eastern Conference while the Knicks are in the midst of a rebuild.
Despite the recent rise of the Nets, Brooklyn native Taj Gibson still believes New York City is a Knicks town.
“It’s always going to be a Knicks town. That’s all we grew up on,” Gibson told Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News. “What the Nets are doing is great, don’t get me wrong.