New York City takes rivalries personally, and rightfully so.
Everyone’s always got a better recommendation for something. A better pizzeria, a better breakfast, a better neighborhood for a new apartment. I’m dead serious, hands have been thrown over lesser matters in the Big Apple.
This was the exact energy the New York Knicks needed in Monday night’s tilt with the Brooklyn Nets. Even without Kevin Durant, Brooklyn still had James Harden and Kyrie Irving to prove they were the real New York team.
Julius Randle and the Knicks, meanwhile, were more than happy to show the Nets and their skinny jean-clad fans the truth: New York is and always will be Knicks country.