Jalen Brunson on Knicks Fans: “You never want to be disrespectful. Obviously throwing stuff and saying things that are not a part of the game… it’s considered disrespectful. I love our fans but we gotta be better.”
Regardless of the outcome of the series, NYC is going to be a GTA lobby.
We got GTA Knicks before GTA 6
We have Grand Theft Alvarado
GTA 6(66) Hail S8TAN 😎😎
Hackers passing out money and RP? Sign me up.
Hackers are not the h_ _ kers I’m interested in from GTA
Knicks didn’t start the fire
It was always burning since New York’s been turning
My roommate is visiting NYC for the first time, planned months ago, and will happen to be there Tuesday. If Spurs win tonight, I told her just stay inside. If Spurs lose tonight, she’s safe! But the city won’t be there to visit unfortunately
Well people go see the Grand Canyon, so I’m sure she’ll enjoy seeing its eastern coast equivalent after NYC is demolished
Oh ffs this is nyc. There are more ppl who dgaf about basketball than there is who do. A city of a million things going on at all times and your roommate will be fine doing whatever they wanna.
I swear the scale of this city break all your brains.
My dude you don’t get out much, interact with actual humans, do ya? It feels real fkn weird that I have to explain this but I don’t literally believe the city of New York is going to disappear tonight. You’ll be ok, go outside man 😂
Woke up - still here
Yea buddy I’m literally surrounded by 500 ppl in bk at a watch party and you’re the one sitting in your shithole flyover telling your roomate to beeeee carefuuull.
Brain. Broken. As always.
I’m sorry I don’t speak peaked-in-middle-school 😂😂😂 Tf was that? I KNOW you don’t think that was an actual coherent thought 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
More emojis please since that’s about your level of communication
I’m 100% not shocked that was the only part you could read lil guy 🤣🤣
Annnnd there you are sitting mad af at home while we’re out on the street burning the city down lol.
It’s all good one day you’ll be able to maybe able to afford to get a room at a courtyard by Marriott here and see what it’s like. Until then I’ll be partying and…ooops…burning this city down tonight lil loser! Ta ta!
Didn’t care who won but “I’m a bottom feeder with no ability to react to literally anything without violence” is not a flex 🤣🤣 Enjoy Trump’s crusty balls in your mouth, magat
You speak the truth.
There’s also an entire mob of fans from Brazil for the WC match today… it’s gonna be utter insanity
facts
So Jesus gonna show up in a limo??
…..so a tourist shows up in NYC for a few seconds and gets laid to waste by someone in an Opressor……..sounds about right……
The NBA can’t let this become a 7 game series orelse new York will be in ruins.
Yep. Win or lose, NYC will fall into chaos after this series (while chants of fuck Trae Young can be heard echoing across the streets).
Watch out for eggs, Jalen
It’ll be flour this time
Gonna go through all the ingredients for a homemade bread loaf
That’s why they call it the Yeastern conference
Going yeastmode
I thought it was a piece of cake
You must be French
Portuguese Canadian
No one behaves like that outside of NY and Philly hate to break it to you
His dome makes for a pretty good target
The Knicks and mike brown are so likeable
I’ll be gutted if/when we lose the series but I’ll be very happy for Brown, he’s always been one of the good guys.
Same
Let’s goooo
Thanks, Spurs are too. I liked the Northeast guys like Castle (UConn) and Harper (RU) in college. Liked Fox at UK. And if you like basketball you kind of have to like Wemby. I’ve never seen that combination of size, skill and athleticism, probably never will again. That said really hope it ends tonight, we are so desperate for a title and I’ve seen the Spurs win 5 of them, but just wanted to say I’ve always respected the Spurs since Pops started, and I’m so annoyed at the “fans” who got violent and also the dopes who threw eggs at Wemby. Just clown behavior.
I obviously hope it doesn’t end tonight, But if it does at least its going to likeable people.
Thanks for not judging us by our worst. And how did I forget to mention St John’s Champagnie? Love his game too, Vessell, Keldon, Kornet etc all likable guys. Anyway I will continue with the Spurs as my #2, after the Knicks, top western conference team after this. Perhaps a Spurs loss will drive this super young and talented team to a dynasty beginning next year. Health permitting this team will definitely raise the trophy eventually, if not this year.
Can I just jump in and say it was amazing that the Spurs were the first to hire a female coach in Becky Hammon? Love that for them.
I am literally rooting against the Knicks only because all the Knicks fans I know are super toxic. I love Mike Brown, he was loved by everyone in the bay. I love Hart, Bridges, OG, even Brunson despite his (at least not Shai level) foul baiting. Even KAT. I have always felt like his bbiq and immaturity held him back, and I still think those are issues for him, but he works a lot harder and complains a lot less while taking the back seat in terms of glory. Hell, I love Alvarado as a backup. That god damn pit bull is a little nuts but has no quit in him. New York sports fans are terrifying, but I can’t hate on anyone on the team really. I guess Shamet’s haircut is stupid. That’s all I got.
I get it, if I haven’t been a fan for 35 years since I was a little kid these fan incidents we’ve all seen (we don’t really see clips of the peaceful watch parties all over the city) would make me root against them too.
Ggs and Congratulations.
Ty, looking forward to seeing how this plays out for you guys. You’re gonna be a handful for the rest of the league for sure. Hopefully we meet again next year after all these kids learn from this series and postseason.
Congrats on the dub 🙏
Ty, congrats on your excellent team and brightest future in the league.
It’s just too bad Knicks fans are not.
Also the owner.
Most fans aren’t
You’re seeing like a microscopic amount of people doing stupid stuff on TikTok videos compared to like 8 million other people celebrating just fine lol.
I don’t blame them for it but the fact that Knicks fans fans, especially celebrities, have taken over SA is annoying af
You’re seeing like a microscopic amount of people doing stupid stuff
that becomes irrelevant when they put a child in a coma.
By they, you mean the SA fan streaming on twitch in a Ref hoodie who put the Knicks fan in a coma?
Right?
It wasn’t a SA fan either. It was some loser streamer looking for a fight
I’m sorry.. what?!
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lol it’s always sixers fans with this same woe is me comment. Do you guys really get it that bad?
I miss Mike. He’s a great guy. We were better with him.
Everyone misses him the NBA needs 30 Mike Browns one for every team
You gotta imagine if Steve told Mike “when Steph retires this is your team,” he might have stayed around :(
I like the Spurs too. Only frustrating part of the series for me have been the ticky tack fouls but that’s not on them
The owner on the other hand…
It’s not them, the fans
They’re always having a ton of fun. Makes it easy to enjoy rooting for them. Fans can be rough but I do have a ton of Knicks fan friends so I know it’s really just a small minority of them.
one of the most likeable teams but the fanbase and Dolan are some of the most unlikeable
I agree. It’s so weird. I’ve disliked them since the ‘94 finals, and here we are. I really like Hart, OG and Brunson.
World Champion Jalen always looks so cozy. I like that.
Frost bank center can get pretty chilly, gotta keep those muscles warm
Outdoor winter football has always seemed like madness to me but those big throw over coats look like the best thing ever.
Needs to protect his dome from the elements
Majority of fans have been nothing but joyous and respectful during this run. The small percentage of idiots and criminals using this for clout have made it a big story.
I’ve seen some people arrested after last game, hope they get the rest of them and anyone else who does criminal shit.
unfortunately small percentage for NYC and Knicks fans is still thousands upon thousands of idiots, and thousands of people stupid and horrible enough to do things just bc of the games
if you think there are thousands of people aggressively targeting others you would be wrong. id put it at closer to 50 - 100
spread out through NYC? there’s def in that range. 50-100 is very low, I could see that in 3 videos worth of post game idiots. There’s been around 50 official arrests, around double for being taken in, id assume the number of people doing shit without repercussion is much much higher.
Same people who loot and raid as soon as they get a chance. Not real fans. Just fuckfaces
They’re the blood of new York, what you on about
The ones who throw eggs and burn people’s hair with lighters? Fuck them, fuck the looters
When the Cavs got swept in 2018 finals a bunch of Cavs fans attacked warriors fans and curb stomped them.
Should we conclude that all Cavs fans are like that?
This the first time you heard about Cleveland?
Add in of course this isn’t all fans, just the representation of the teams fans.
Those fans are the “blood of Cleveland”
Glad we come to an agreement
Yeah man. Me too. I wanna feel like, should we get a parade, that I can share a moment with other people who have loved this team as much as I have these past 30 something years. And not have it ruined by a bunch of assholes trying to make content and go viral.
Let’s be real in some videos around the internet a few people are not wearing Knicks jerseys.. just regular clothes. Like the burger shop that got chairs thrown. A majority of them throwing chairs didn’t have any Knicks merchandise. Just excuses to riot for views
I don’t have merchandise for the teams I love. Definitely a fan tho
Right but what are the odds that all of these people are fans with absolutely no merch in sight. Be real here.
The guy that was yelling Spurs in 7 and put the Knicks fam on a coma had a Spurs Jersey, is he a Spurs fan?
He might be, why wouldn’t you believe he is?
I know a girl that moved here 3 weeks ago, has never watched a game in her life before last week, and has a knicks shirt on every other day lmao
Lmfao and? What are these comments even trying to get at? It’s not just knicks fans, it’s New Yorkers in general? Sure there are videos with no Knicks merch, but there are plenty with lol
no it’s 16-22 year old young men in NYC, many from bad neighborhoods looking to cause problems and the other half with antisocial brains cooked by social media and lockdowns. walk around NYC and you’ll find quite literally a million knicks fans just happy to be supporting their team and equally horrified by that behavior
Nice!
While we’re auditing merch in that video, the dude sitting at one of the tables with his bag of food, looking around like “should I leave?” was wearing a Knicks jersey, and the dude who was waiting for the kids to leave so he could place an order was wearing a Knicks hat and maybe shirt.
It’s just hard for me to believe that those guys have much in common with the kids sticking their hands in the fast food fryers.
At a watch party tho ? I seen videos of neighborhood parties and the whole Block is orange and blue. Knicks fans a different level. If they love the team they will buy merchandise just like any other fan base
Adam silver furiously masturbating to this comment by a real customer
Appreciate you dude. Honestly if you’re here the vibe is overwhelmingly positive, I’ve been at bars with spurs fans and there’s been no drama. It fucking sucks that people are acting out and no excuses for it, but I don’t think we should put so much energy in to boosting all these videos cause that’s what they want.
literally. seems like nobody is also noticing it’s exclusively 16-22 year old boys causing all these problems. thats already historically a problematic demographic, and it’s made even worse by their development getting cooked by social media and lockdowns. generation is deep fried
Much like the “spurs fan” who was going around instigating fights and put the kid in a coma. He was just streaming his antics. I doubt hes a fan of anything but his own twisted ego. But because hes using the Spurs to troll hes labeled a fan. Gtfo hes no spurs fan hes just a whacko geek.
The internet has really done a number on the kids man.
That whole five guys thing was between literal gangs. News made it out to be something else and as you can see, the public ate it up.
During the protests in NYC from a few years back, a lot of people just came in from out of state or skipped school so they could loot and pillage Apple stores. Definitely not a good look and does not represent a majority of the city/fanbase as a whole.
It’s been documented at other sports riots that some people start things or take part of the riots, showing no connection to the sporting event.
Id go further, some of those dudes are waving certain flags on some videos that have nothing to do with the Knicks and that make sense on why they’re behaving like animals and find some type of joy on destroying stuff.
Just because they can’t afford a Knicks jersey doesn’t mean they’re not fans
“How do you tune this out” “Well it would start by you not asking me about it”
If a simple question triggers you then you weren’t ready
I don’t really know what this means. Ready for what
The King of New York is so wise. Long may he reign!
I know no king, but the king in Manhattan whose name is Brunson
His cranium is so big from all the absorved knowledge
Props for actually addressing it
Better than never I guess
On brand.
Such a likable team but I dislike the fans so much that I wish the Knicks would lose
This means a lot coming from a birds fan, too.
Jalen, we are like 5 hours away from having to blow up the bridges to NY if you guys win tonight.
You ever see Escape from NY? It’s going to be that.
This run and the news coverage brought in an influx of new fans. You also have a lot of social media and news talking about “NYC will burn into the ground” so they’re buying into their own hype.
I’m not saying that the clowns aren’t fans… but if they had a choice of going viral so they can show their classmates OR the Knicks win the championship - I believe they would not choose the latter.
Nice to hear somebody say something
Good on him. I was wondering if they’d wait until after to say something, not that I think it’ll matter to the people doing the crazy shit.
Stand up class act of a man, much respect Brunson!
It will never change as long as people refuse to identify the problem.
It’d be weird if he supported and encouraged the violence
Jalen better watch out tonight
What about beating people up?
respect to jalen for saying this. some of our fans were way out of line last night and he didnt have to call them out like that but he did. thats what a leader does
Always a few bad apples that ruin the rest
The team is likeable, the idiotic fans…not so much (not all obviously but the ones that riot and are disrespectful to the spurs outside their hotels)
Throwing stuff and saying things is really an under exaggeration.
It’s throwing eggs at players, burning fans and sending opposition fans into hospital.
But Jalen, I heard over and over again that the violent ones aren’t actually fans.
Knicks in 5
Knicks fans: But we’re assholes, it’s all we know.
Bros about to get jumped by Knicks fans for this
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both are bad bruh, doesn’t mean you can throw eggs at people because you’re not stomping people to dead
Why does this frame make it look like he’s on the Exegol planet from rise of skywalker
Took them long enough to say something
One of these days a guy with the legal right to carry is going to wear a Spurs jersey for shits and giggles and catch a free kill
Yes, more tedious to obtain than other states tho
Call them out ffs. Fucking pussy. As someone who has no skin in the game I gotta say that these new generation of “stars” are pussies.
Did they ask Wemby about the Spurs fan who beat the Knicks fan into a coma?? Or do we only smear Knicks fans here,???