The remarkable thing is how many folks are still drawn to the building, like paper clips to a magnet.
Take Artie Francino. He didn’t have tickets to the game Wednesday night that provided the Knicks their 36th loss of the season and offered Houston’s James Harden a platform to score 61 points, tying Kobe Bryant’s Garden record for a visiting player. Francino hasn’t been to a game all year, and he wasn’t making an exception for what was either an excruciating or exhilarating 114-110 Rockets win, depending on your tolerance for losing.
“I’ll let the amateurs enjoy the tanking,” he said.