NEW YORK — An out-of-place color increasingly broke out against the autumn palette here in the five boroughs. A seafoam hat on the streets. A branded T-shirt in the local park. A dog bandana. Blocks from Barclays Center, one side of a sports conversation about the New York teams competing for championships flew out toward passersby.
They’re going to win this tonight, he insisted. Sabrina Ionescu heard the same thing everywhere she went in the city the day before a winner-take-all Game 5. You’re gonna do this. You’re going to do it in New York.