Former Knick J.R. Smith gets knocked to the ground during wild postgame celebration outside of Madison Square Garden
Probably not gonna do that again
Should’ve never did it in the first place.
This is why celebrities always have security.
Stupid ass people don’t know how to control themselves.
That lady in the background panicking seems to realize how absofreakinglutely dangerous large crowds become once someone is in a compromised position.
People in the back will just keep pushing and all of a sudden you can’t stand up.
Could have very easily gotten someone crushed
I don’t know how long it woukd have taken me to believe the headline “JR Smith stomped to death by Knicks fans” if I woke up to it
I don’t support it, but it does sound like an appropriate death for JR Smith.
True, I don’t think he’d want to go out any other way
There’s studies done that show the physics behind large crowds. Once a certain density of your small area is reached humans begin to act more like liquid than solids. You’re completely at the mercy of the movement of the crowd and have no control anymore. Shits dangerous as hell.
Crowd surges are scary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_Halloween_crowd_crush?wprov=sfti1#History_of_the_district
I remember this night. I was actually in South Korea on vacation around Halloween and me and my friend were deciding where to go. We were considering going to Itaewon, but at the last second I decided to walk to Seoul Sration for McDonalds.
I woke up the next morning and my phone was bombarded with messages from friends asking if I’m still alive. We turn on the news in the hotel room and find out about the crowd crush that happened last night. It was a surreal experience knowing we could have been there too. Me and my friend were literally in Itaewon, where the crowd crush happened just a few days before.
What if liquid is just tiny little people
I used to go to a lot of concerts and there’s a point where you have to embrace it and go with the flow, people trying to maintain their spot or protect their personal space are in for a bad time. I’m a huge dude so I end up boosting people up for event staff to haul out when they need to bail. I also get kicked in the head by every crowd surfer.
Hope ny preps betterthis time if knicks get to finals, crowd crush is horrific
Better not to be in the finals at all tbh
I agree, go Cavs
One of my biggest fears is getting trampled like this
Knicks fans in this environment don’t give a fuck. After playoff games at MSG every year recently they absolutely mob the streets, hurt people, and cause property damage.
Like I get mobbing when you get into the finals or win a championship, but doing this after a second round game 1 is just silly.
It becomes self-fulfilling. Idiots see it online and then roleplay to live up to the image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes
I had always seen videos of crowds getting crushed at concerts, like basically the worst situations and I never really got how getting crushed could even happen until one day I went to a concert where people were going too crazy and it was right at capacity and I could feel the crowd moving like waves and physically moving me to where I like am between 2 groups of people and I’m completely involuntarily moving and I’m like fighting to stay on my feet and I’m with my girl like trying to keep her up and it was a very like big realization for me that THAT was how that happened, and if I got caught in that situation in a worse way i could have seen how I might die or get seriously hurt - especially when you have like literally 20 people on top of you or you’re person 10 in the 20 person group on top of someone and you just cannot get out from under hundreds if not thousands of pounds above you from like genuinely just 10 people.
it’s not a soccer game, nobody is going to get trampled to death
Your wrong, kid. People have been trampled waiting on line during Black Friday. I’m sure a stampede could happen anywhere if the mob is large enough.
orrrr…. women just be screaming sometimes
Evolutionary safety trait
Alert the village!
This could’ve gone so wrong so fast man
Deaths happen very easily in groups that size and excitable. Made more infuriating seeing so many zombies with their phones out so six people taking a shit can watch 5 seconds of their video on mute.
It happened in Seoul, Korea in 2022 on Halloween. That crowd crush killed over 150 people.
i know its said a lot but national guard is for real being sent to Manhattan if we win a chip
So cute seeing eastern conference teams still picturing themselves winning the title in the coming years.
Didn’t an Eastern team won the year before OKC? And even the last time it went to 7 and if Hali didn’t get injured, it’s 50⁄50
Anything can happen.
Exactly
Eastern conference teams have won 4 in comparison to the west winning 6 in the last 10 years.
So, sure, the west won two more chips but its barely a large enough factor to act like the east hasn’t won at all.
That was then and THIS IS NOW baby
With SGA, Wemby and Ant in one of the conferences, I’m afraid it is in fact not, 50⁄50.
i love ant but its cute for you to put him in the same convo as SGA and Wemby lmao
Even putting Wemby in there is funny.
Its his first playoffs and he just lost to an injured Wolves team.
No reason to already hold him so highly.
Ant’s made it farther in the playoffs than Wemby?
Duncan robinson made the finals with the heat so he’s better than Wemby 🔥
Happy birthday Duncan Robinson
didn’t realize Duncan is the 1A of the Heat
ahh so Jimmy Butler is better, got it 🔥🔥🔥
Jimmy Butler has had a better career than Wemby at this point, absolutely lol. If Wemby consistently peaks in the 2nd round, then he’ll be considered a disappointment no matter his stats.
people have eyes?
It’s too early to be frontrunning bro.
And I don’t think Ant is even in that conversation, but you do you.
I’m not saying wolves are three-peating? It’s just pretty clear at this point that the best three teams in the league are in the west. And it’s cute for Eastern Conference teams to still think their teams will be able to compete in the coming Finals.
Nyk destroyed the spurs last time they played and we’re the only ones who can handle wemby; Minnesota ain’t scary sry
I’ll give you okc is easily the best team on paper
the Knicks have beat the spurs more than they’ve lost this season, and beat them in the Cup. It’s anyone’s game.
Spurs? You think the Knicks will be playing the SPURS this year?!
Not necessarily, but you can’t say the top 3 teams are in the west when an east team has consistently beat one of them
I was talking about Utah bruh… that should’ve been pretty obvious. OKC, MIN and the Jazz have the next 5 years.
a team that employs julius ramdle cant play okc
This means nothing
Easy to talk shit on the KAT trade once Donte goes down. Julius been to more conference finals than anyone on the current Knicks. At least you guys will get another finals run this year.
Brother really snuck Ant in with those names 😂😂😂
Am I wrong or just early? We’ll see if you’re still laughing once the Wolves get moved to the East 😏
You’re wrong.
Y’all are the west coast bros, trust, but you being “too big for your breeches” right now.
Imagine including ant in the sga and Wendy convo
Keep sleeping. And flair up fool.
I mean I don’t have to disrespect you to make a point, I’m an adult
I’m a Pistons fan
But you have to be kidding yourself if you think Edwards is on those guys level lol
Neither is Cade but I can be unbiased unlike you…
2 Bombs and a coughing baby
Fr Wemby was rough last night. shouldve said Luka.
W cope
Fuck team vs team rivalries, we’re beefing with entire conferences now
Westside! <Throws up the W>
Better keep yourself to the west of the Mississippi, EC for life!
Wow, since you can apparently predict the future, what are the lottery numbers for today?
To be fair, it does not take them winning. It takes them making it. If they make it to the finals the home finals games still happen.
If we win the city may burn to the ground
If you lose game 7, it’d probably be like Vancouver Canucks losing game 7 but 100x worse
If the Pacers could push OKC to 7 what do you think this year’s Knicks are capable of?
Might need that guard, anyway, if they come close.
lol Donald will use the first opportunity to do it. If there’s one paper bag on fire on a corner he’s sending that shit ASAP
Not gonna happen buddy
Yall ain’t winning shit
Never gonna happen with Brunson and KAT
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Lmfao, you that soft 😂
JR looking like Scottie Pippen these days
sidetalk culture bozos have no social skills. can’t wait for the clowns saying: “wow all knicks fans are trash! look at this video!”
Yeah I live in NYC and love how crazy the Garden gets. But the mob mentality puts these dudes into like sideshow mode where it’s all about turning up and no one is really looking out for each other in these crowds.
Yeah man this has gotten stale and jobs not finished. Let em go wild but enough with this clip culture BS.
Most of the herbs in those videos scream Long Island and westchester kids
Yea who the fuck is going to MSG when they aren’t at the game?? It seems like something people who only know the train to Penn Station do. Everyone else is watching at a good sports bar, watching at home, or watching with other Knicks fans at their home.
While occasionally some of the maniac video clips are funny for a second, these lunatics are mostly embarrassing.
This isn’t the crowd leaving the game? Honestly asking
No way. You think these dipshits can afford tickets to an MSG playoff game?! Haha.
I think the Knicks have set up some sort of free outdoor screen you can watch the game standing outside MSG. There’s also a handful of sports bars near MSG. This is the crowd that spends all game standing to watch for free and sticks around to go as apeshit as they can on camera hoping it makes it viral online.
In the live broadcast I’ve seen occasional cutaways to outside MSG in a roped off area where there’s a DJ and some other random shit. I haven’t seen it in person, but there’s got to be a portable screen showing the game. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these dudes don’t even watch the end of the games and are literally just hanging around MSG to go wild.
It usually mixes together but the people leaving the game usually are heading home and got actually shit to do in the morning.
These people are those who can’t get in, have nothing better to do, and just overall crowd outside to do dumb shit.
I mean we have the mob assaulting a Sixers fan minding his own business to point to for that
Crowds can get scary fast, glad it seems like everyone was good
Especially at the beginning of the second round of the playoffs! 🙄
Imagine getting trampled to death by a bunch of hype beast 20 something’s filming nothing.
The vast majority of these crowds are human embarrassments.
People in the groups acting like animals I’ll never understand that
I mean, humans literally are animals but the phenomenon is -
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-a-mob-mentality
pfft wake me up when he is not wearing a shirt for a week ^^^ignore ^^^my ^^^flair
Mark Price and JR Smith. The duality of man. You know, the jungian thing.
For game 1? I’d get it winning the series but the first game?
They’re just trying to manufacture viral moments. It’s not sincere. They’re going wild so they can get videos of them going wild. It’d be pathetic if it weren’t so dangerous
Honestly I never met anyone who has ever been to one of these outside MSG mobs. Those compilation videos that get spread around probably just drew in more people hoping go viral online for going apeshit on camera. These aren’t people leaving MSG, these are maniacs showing up outside MSG to go wild.
fuck these motherfuckers this shit is embarrassing
Looks like a Travis Scott concert
Unc too old for all of that lol
Come on man, no need to risk your life over game 1
Can smell that mosh pit from here 🤢
Smells like rotten fish with hot smelly breath
More like rat poop and pigeon feet with a hint of scuffed timbs
Knicks fans are weird dude
Everybody got their phones out. So stupid
Bunch of losers trying to go viral
JR Squished
Sidetalk was funny before but they’ve absolutely ruined the post Knicks game scene smh
Shit use to be so fun, real fans hyped up, now it just devolved into social media wannabes looking for clips and doing dumb shit for the camera.
It’s wild how social media quickly changes things for the worse. Some viral clips of fans very quickly turns into thousands of clout chasing fools trying to be seen on the internet for acting insane.
NYC would look like Gotham when Bane was running it if this team actually wins the title.
Turnt?
Lol he doesn’t understand that there’s no such thing as “relax” when there is a mob or hive in full effect.
The youth are not alright
Looks like he kept his cigarette lit, at least. 😂
Gonna be mighty awkward if CLE and NY meet in the conference finals and he only shows up to NY games
Game 1. Really doesn’t take much to fire up the attention seeking behavior in NYC
a lot of clowns
Junior Smythe
It’s game 1 of round 2. Embarrassing.
“Damon Jones says hello!”
Wait is that dude in the black jersey helping JR the same guy who helped the sixers fan?
Cavs fans would never treat this man like this
he’s being treated like this because they love him though
Delicious, they are eating their own
a lot of weird bros in this video…
why does this happen every playoffs outside MSG? Where is crowd control and police?
Side Talk is why.
Clout chasers are in full effect outside MSG now.
1 game
Not to be like a stick in the mud but it’s just game 1, why is it like this there lol
It’s the Henny.
They probably gotta start putting police out here before bing bong starts a riot
Swish you need security lol
Surely over celebrating a game 1 win won’t come back to bite the Knicks. Right? That would NEVER happen to them.
NY wants to be Philly soooo bad
That boy thought that he was safe 🤣
Bunch of fucking trash people doing this shit, New York doesn’t deserve to win if their fans act like this after a game 1.
And this isn’t even as bad as what they did to that Philly fan, just garbage people
Im sorry but as much as i would love to see philly lose theres no room for any of this in any fanbase. Just saw the other clip of the guy being pretty much assaulted by a crowd for a philly jersey too. None of this belongs in sports i dont know how NY fans have evolved backyards like this. Hope NY loses the next 4 and just gets out at this point.
What am I missing here? The Knicks win game one of the semis and people are losing their minds? Grow t f up? How are they going so wild NOW there’s weeks to go of games
Getting trampled is going to look even crazier if the Knicks lose this series.
Wow! They won the series or something? Because surely that’s the only reason you’d celebrate like this, right?
Average Knicks fans
Hey let the fans be excited
If they die, they die