Knicks fans “taking over” Philly is the saddest flex in professional sports
New York fans continue to believe it’s some kind of legendary flex to “take over” Xfinity Mobile Arena by buying up tickets, taking a train to Philadelphia, and cheering for the Knicks in someone else’s building.
They post about it on social media like they just planted a flag on the moon. They brag about it in group chats. They screenshot the crowd shots and send them to Sixers fans like it’s supposed to hurt our feelings.
It’s not a flex. It’s the most embarrassing thing in professional sports and the fact that Knicks fans don’t realize it tells you everything about their collective IQ.
New York Knicks Fans Are Poor
You are too poor to attend your own team’s basketball game. That’s what’s happening here. Let’s strip away the spin and the pride and say it plainly. Knicks fans cannot afford tickets at Madison Square Garden because every seat in that building is bought up by celebrities, socialites, and Wall Street guys who couldn’t name three players on the roster but want to be seen next to Spike Lee.
The actual basketball fans, the ones who grew up in Queens and Brooklyn and the Bronx rooting for this franchise through three decades of abject misery, are completely priced out of their own arena.
So they scrape together whatever money they have, round up the family, take a filthy Amtrak or NJ Transit train to Philadelphia, navigate through a city that hates them, and sit in someone else’s arena pretending they accomplished something meaningful.
That’s not a takeover. That’s a refugee situation.
You’re basketball refugees fleeing the financial hellscape of your own building because your franchise cares more about celebrity culture than actual fans. Congratulations on your takeover of a city that didn’t ask for you to be here.
The Celebrity Thing Is Genuinely Pathetic
Knicks fans love to brag about MSG’s atmosphere. The celebrities. The energy. The history. The “Mecca of basketball.” Cool.
Ben Stiller, the most famous Knicks fan on the planet and supposed die-hard supporter of this team, went to some event called the Met Gala where the rich and famous dress like retards instead of Game 1 of the second-round NBA Playoffs.
His team was playing a nationally televised playoff game and he chose to be with rich people dress like they lost a bet on a red carpet. That’s your guy. That’s the face of Knicks fandom. A man who picked a fashion show over playoff basketball.
I have friends who wouldn’t go to their own mother’s birthday dinner if the Sixers were playing a regular season game in April. I know people who have missed weddings, funerals, and family reunions because of Philadelphia sports.
Ben Stiller missed a playoff game for the Met Gala. You cannot call yourself a die-hard and do that. It’s disqualifying. Turn in your season tickets and give them to someone who actually cares.
Dont think so, Ben Stiller
Celebrity row at MSG is the biggest scam in professional sports.
None of those courtside celebrities give a single shit about the fans in the upper deck. Tracy Morgan shuffling to the bathroom. Michael Rapaport licking mustard off his thumb. Colin Jost wiping his face with the back of his hand.
Knicks Fans: Scum of the Earth
These are the people Knicks fans worship while simultaneously being unable to afford a ticket in the same building. You’re paying $400 for nosebleeds so you can watch a comedian walk to the concession stand on the jumbotron.
How Knicks fans have convinced themselves that any of this is cool and not deeply, profoundly embarrassing, I will never understand.
A Train Ride To Philly Is the Funniest Part
Picture this. You’re a Knicks fan. You can’t afford MSG tickets. So you wake up on a game day, put on your Jalen Brunson jersey, grab your wife and kids, and march everyone down to Penn Station. You take the dirtiest train in America to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.
You navigate to the Broad Street Line, which smells like a combination of hot garbage and human regret, and ride it south to Pattison Ave while surrounded by Sixers fans who want you to disappear from the earth. You walk through the South Philly Sports Complex parking lot getting heckled the entire way. You sit in someone else’s arena for three hours. Then you take the whole miserable journey in reverse.
All because you’re too poor to watch your own team play in your own city. Luckily for that guy, his wife and kids haven’t left him yet despite clearly being dragged through hell every other week. But I wouldn’t test that loyalty much longer.
The “Takeover” Is Not Happening This Year
The Sixers are geolocating ticket purchases to the Greater Philadelphia area. Credit card billing address determines eligibility. Orders from outside the region will be canceled without notice. Knicks fans, being the geniuses they are, immediately saw that some tickets were purchased from New Jersey addresses and declared a takeover imminent.
Apparently every single person in the state of New Jersey is a Knicks fan and South Jersey doesn’t exist. Half of New Jersey is Eagles and Sixers territory but that doesn’t fit the narrative so they conveniently ignore it.
Joel Embiid got you…lol
Embiid already told Sixers fans not to sell their tickets. He said if you need the money, he’s got you. The franchise player is publicly offering to cover fans’ bills so that Knicks fans don’t infiltrate the building. When your best player is willing to Venmo strangers to preserve home-court advantage, you hold your tickets. Period.
2026 Is Not 2024
In 2024, the Sixers fanbase was broken. Embiid was banged up. The organization was a mess. People sold their tickets because they’d lost faith. I get it. It was painful but I understand why it happened.
This year is completely different. This team came back from 3-1 against the Celtics. They won three straight elimination games. Embiid waved off TD Garden after hitting a dagger three in Game 7. Maxey closed out the series with two driving layups on fumes. VJ Edgecombe played like a future MVP at 20 years old.
This team gave the city a reason to believe again. If you sell your ticket to a Knicks fan after what this team just accomplished in Boston, I genuinely don’t know what to say to you. You don’t deserve the joy that’s coming if this team wins.
Yes, the Sixers got demolished in Game 1 on Monday night. Nobody is ignoring that.
It was ugly from start to finish. But it’s a seven-game series and this team has already proven it can come back from anything. Historically, I’m usually left in misery when the Sixers play in the postseason so I might as well start talking shit now rather than waiting until they lose and nobody cares anymore.
Sixers get blasted in Game 1 in the Garden, lose to the Knicks 137-98 >>
The Knicks fans want our building. They want to ride their dirty trains down here and pretend they own the place. They want to chant in our arena while their own celebrities skip playoff games for fashion shows. They want to call it a takeover while being too broke to attend games in their own city.
Not this year. Hold your tickets. Be in that building. Make Xfinity Mobile Arena a fortress and make Madison Square Garden into Maxey Square Garden when we go up there.
Knicks fans are the worst fanbase in professional sports. They’ve been irrelevant for 25 years, finally have a decent team, and their biggest accomplishment is buying cheap tickets in Philadelphia. Incredible stuff.
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