And as for the other team in town …
OK, OK, we kid. If it is indisputable the Nets’ star-splashed Sunday made significant strides in their perpetual effort to gain equal footing with the Knicks, it is equally unarguable that the Knicks still remain the prime holders of the deed to the city’s basketball soul.
A quick and thoroughly unscientific canvassing of Knicks fans The Day After didn’t reveal much of a groundswell of dug-in Knicks fans looking to trade their orange-and-blue gear for black-and-white. Knicks fans may have spent a lot these hours questioning their sanity and their loyalty, wondering when they became so proficient at self-loathing, but the bylaws mostly require faith and trust that better days lie ahead.