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What a Knicks Win Means to New York City

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0:00A: Okay, so what does it mean?

0:01B: What it really means? Let me sit down. Yeah, for sure. Knicks winning, it’s just like, it’s everything. Jalen Brunson dropping 45, OG Anunoby last game dropping 30-something. Like, that’s just bringing so much energy to the whole entire, like, state, bro. Like, it’s just so crazy to believe, bro. And it’s like, overall, we haven’t won the Finals in like, what, 56-something years? And we haven’t Been in the finals for like 26-something years, bro. So for this to happen now just in one goal, bro, that’s fucking insane.

0:40A: Once it gets to the summer now, once it gets to the summer now, I’m trying to cheer.

0:46B: But how do you feel?

0:47A: I feel like New York been in a slump. I feel like I said, I feel like every New Yorker needs that I come back by 30 mentality. I feel like every New Yorker needs that because this is New York.

0:54B: Oh yeah.

0:55A: But you could be anywhere, come back by 30, people don’t care.

0:57B: Hell yeah.

0:57A: If you’re in New York, the world’s watching. And I feel like people forget the world’s watching New York. Like, if you’re born in New York, like Three times throughout the series, including this one. That’s crazy. I didn’t even know that.

1:08B: Crazy insane, bro.

1:09A: Honestly, I think the Knicks the Knicks are a whole new franchise right now. That’s what I’m saying, bro.

1:14B: And everybody’s just looking down on down on them. I don’t know, downing them for no reason. Like, we really just did that in their face, bro. We wow we I’m just sitting here relaxing knowing that they was gonna win though. I ain’t gonna lie.

1:25A: Oh yeah, you had it. I mean, you had to have a mentality, right? You gotta have faith.

1:28B: Most definitely.

1:29A: He was shooting those free throws that he knew.

1:31B: Hell yeah.

1:32A: Again and again and again. So. That was crazy.

1:37B: What’s your YouTube channel?

1:38A: We Them Media.

1:39B: We Them Media? Oh, okay.

1:40A: Yeah, I had a podcast, We Them Niggas, now it’s We Them Media. Oh, okay, okay, that’s what it is. So now I’m just out here talking to people. I’ve been vlogging, getting my food. I got my J making food. Now I’m on my way back home. Really, I’m supposed to be on that train, but I don’t even know when the fuck that shit’s coming, so I just sat down.

1:54B: I’m about to go to Delmar Park and see what’s up, what’s going on over there. I got a friend over there.

1:57A: Oh, in the park? Yeah, folks over there siphoning stuff, huh? People over there siphoning stuff and smoking. Yeah, here to hang out. Yeah. That makes sense, that makes sense.

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