Bing Bong: Jason Concepcion Deciphers the Knicks Fan Base

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a long time since the New York Knicks have been one of the NBA’s premier franchises. And even names like Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, and Allan Houston, weren’t able to deliver a championship to New York City’s rabid basketball fans. But according to writer, host, and displaced New Yorker Jason Concepcion, that all may be starting to change. After decades of being the joke in many basketball circles, this Knicks team is suddenly loaded with talent and depth, and being run as competently as any franchise in the sport. And Knicks fans are getting excited again, something they’ll gladly tell you all about. Concepcion, a Knicks fanatic himself, joins the show to break down the culture shift at Madison Square Garden, decipher a lingo and fan base that you needed to grow up around to understand, and explain why New York City will always belong to the Knicks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nick's are here baby the Knicks are
0:03.0	here but first house is gone baby we taking it all the way
0:07.0	it was rough but we have the Knicks
0:10.0	New York Knicks run New York City
0:12.0	bing bong New York, Nick, what, New York City?
0:14.0	Bing Bong! B.
0:18.0	New York, Jason Concepcion, I think it's fair to say that New York
0:22.0	fans are a unique bunch with a very
0:24.3	special energy around them as we just heard in that montage from a social media
0:28.0	page called Side Talk NYC but those people are your people and I ask this in a lovingly way.
0:34.3	Why are they like this?
0:36.1	You know, there's 8 million plus people in New York,
0:38.5	and if you want your views heard,
0:41.2	you're gonna have to yell a little bit
0:42.6	The sticks all the fucking that big neck on my body
0:45.8	DJ Karen
0:47.0	congratulations you just lost another one
0:58.0	Everybody smashed together on the subway on the buses, you know you've got to be quick and able with your verbal combat skills and this is just the way people are.
1:04.0	People are just loud in New York.
1:05.0	And when it comes to the Knicks, does that especially stand out?
1:09.0	It does seem like that's a unique experience to New York and that team specifically.
1:14.0	Oh yeah.
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