They booed the President of the United States rather lustily last night in Madison Square Garden, which only proves New York basketball fans are an astute lot. They know a bad penny when they see one.
And so, in front of Fearless Leader and a bunch of other famous fans or fans-for-now -- Hey, look! There's Derek Jeter! Eli Manning! Timothee Chamelet! -- the hometown Knicks did something they hadn't done since April.
They lost a playoff game.
Fell behind by double digits early, rallied to lead by seven at halftime, couldn't make it stick in the second half against young Victor Wembanyama, young Stephon Castle and the rest of the San Antonio Spurs.
Final score: Spurs 115, Knickerbockers 111.
Snapped a mind-boggling 13-game playoff winning streak for the home team.
Trimmed the Knicks' lead in the NBA Finals to two-games-to-one.
And whooo was there to see it as a homegrown New Yorker and apparent longtime Knicks fan?
Donald John "Stop Asking Me Questions I Don't Like Or I'll Take My Ball And Go Home" Trump.
Fearless Leader. Defender Of The Faith (But Only One Of Them). President of these United States.
Jinx-In-Chief.
And, yeah, a lot of the Garden crowd that booed him when he showed up on the videoboard probably weren't booing because of that. They were probably booing him because, in deciding to horn in on their party, he made the evening even more inconvenient than it already was going to be, as presidents will do when they decide to attend an event.
However.
However, you know -- you just know -- a goodly portion of the crowd were thinking this:
Oh, great. THIS MFer. We're screwed for sure.
Right?
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