New York City is a Knicks’ town. Always has been, always will be.
Periodically when the Nets are good, the games between the two teams feel like a legitimate rivalry.
But even when the games are played on the Nets’ home court at Barclays Center, Knicks fans usually out-number their Nets’ counterparts.
Such was the case when the Knicks outscored the Nets 32-18 in the fourth period of their Jan. 23 game, closing out the 108-103 win with a 10-3 run over the final two minutes.
“It felt like an away game when they made their run,” Nets’ star Mikal Bridges said post-game, per NetsDaily.com. “It’s not fun when you feel like you’re in an away game at home. That’s for any person sitting in here, any person alive; it’s not fun.”
Bridges this week went on the Roommates podcast with former Villanova teammates Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart to discuss the game and other topics.
“We lost, so that wasn’t really fun,” Bridges said.
Bridges added “the reaction off the [OG Anunoby] block [of Cam Thomas] was crazy…And we’re home.”
After a wild sequence that included three blocked shots by both teams, Julius Randle brought the Knicks’ supporters to their feet with a two-handed dunk that made it 103-101.
“Now I feel like I’m in MSG,” Bridges recalled thinking.
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In the big picture, the Nets were briefly relevant — in New York and on the national stage — during the Kyrie Irving/Kevin Durant Era, but those days are long gone and the Nets are coming off a 50-point loss to the Boston Celtics on Wednesday.
Brooklyn is 21-33 and in the 11th spot in the East.
The Knicks hope to make a run in the Eastern Conference playoffs and expect to get several injured players — Donte DiVincenzo (hamstring), Isaiah Hartenstein (Achilles) and Bojan Bogdanovic (calf) — back next week after the All-Star break.
In the longer term, they have to weather the storm while awaiting the returns of Anunoby (elbow), Randle…
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