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New York Is a Basketball Town | Bushwick, Brooklyn

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0:00A: Let’s go. See the little camera flip? Boop. All right, and we’re here with We Them Media in Brooklyn, in Bushwick. What’s the word? So how does it feel that Knicks just won? Come on, baby. We’ve been waiting a long time for that shit, bro. 53 years. I mean, I wasn’t alive then, but I done seen them fucking lose to the Spurs back in ’99. And 13 years old, bro. I’m 40 right now. Come on, bro. Long-ass time. I didn’t even have a beard. Now this shit is gray. Come on, bro. We’re outside for every fucking year. That we fucking didn’t win a championship. For another 53 hours, we outside. You know what I’m saying? Mm-hmm. I like that. I like that. I felt New York needed to win. You felt New York needed to win? Yeah. Come on, New York, baby. We haven’t won shit. New York, like, we’re a sports city, bro. But like, we’re a basketball town, bro. We’re basketball all the way through and through. You know what I’m saying? Fucking everywhere you go, everyone’s always playing ball. That shit felt good. Damn straight, bro. What’s your name? Carell. Carell. Shout out to Carell. Appreciate you, man. Have a good one, bro.

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