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‘I don’t even know the place it’s, however I gotta go’: Knicks react to NYC avenue indicators
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‘I don’t even know the place it’s, however I gotta go’: Knicks react to NYC avenue indicators

Last updated: May 23, 2025 11:09 pm
Editorial Board Published May 23, 2025
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P.J. Tucker, Mitchell Robinson and Delon Wright every thought it was a pretend.

Josh Hart knew it was actual — as a result of he noticed Jalen Brunson’s first.

The Knicks made the Jap Convention Finals for the primary time since 2000, and Mayor Eric Adams paid homage to the 15 gamers in orange-and-blue uniform by naming New York Metropolis cross avenue after every member on this 12 months’s rolling Knicks roster.

Jalen Brunson Boulevard. Karl-Anthony Cities Sq.. Mikal Bridges Block. Josh Hart Road. OG Anunoby Alley. Mitchell Robinson Highway. Miles McBride Road. Cam Payne Place. Treasured Achiuwa Place. Landry Shamet Circle. Tyler Kolek Lane. Delon Wright Circle. Ariel Hukporti Road.

However Hart needs to go to P.J. Tucker Terrace.

For Tucker, signing a rest-of-the-season contract in New York after the All-Star break was the success of a lifelong, childhood dream.

Tucker understands how massive of a second this convention finals look is for the town.

“When I was a kid, I used to wanna play for the Knicks. So I know how big it is for the city,” he mentioned. “It means everything to me so I can only imagine how it feels for the city. So it’s pretty cool.”

But worldwide rookies Pacome Dadiet (France) and Ariel Hukporti (Germany) are nonetheless new to the Large Apple. Dadiet is aware of this metropolis is loopy on the subject of Knicks basketball. However loopy sufficient to call a avenue after a rookie outdoors the rotation?

Hukporti’s highschool renamed its gymnasium after him. However a avenue check in New York Metropolis. At first the rookie couldn’t consider it.

After which it hit him. This line of questioning wouldn’t be in place if there wasn’t a real-life metropolis avenue signal along with his identify on it, hanging on the nook of seventh Avenue and West fifty fifth Road.

“So hold on… so the sign is real? It’s real for real? Like it’s really hanging there?” he requested. “Oh I’m looking for something. I thought they were pranking me.”

Moments later, the rookie helps his veteran sharpshooter teammate discover his avenue signal.

First impression? Shamet is bummed to be taught he’s not the only occupant of seventh Avenue and West forty fourth Road.

Now, he’s leaning into the sentiment, already planning to have a good time the second along with his family members.

“I never had a street named after me before. First time,” he says. “If we’ve got time, my sister’s in town. Might take my girl and my sister to go look at it. Heck of a moment.”

But Mitchell Robinson, ever the joker, can’t make up his thoughts. At first, the Knicks defensive anchor needed no elements of Mitchell Robinson Highway.

All of the sudden the gamers are involved.

These wild Knicks followers simply crowd-surfed on the nook of thirty third and seventh and climbed gentle posts to have a good time a convention finals look. Would they be loopy sufficient to tear a once-in-a-generation avenue signal down from the sky?

“No that can’t be, right?” Hukporti mentioned in disbelief. “They ain’t that crazy.”

They’re on the subject of their captain — No. 11, whose signal, Jalen Brunson Boulevard, hangs appropriately on seventh Avenue and West eleventh Road.

“I don’t think they’d take mine,” mentioned Wright, who logged 26 second of sport time in Sport 1 towards the Pacers. “They’ll probably take Jalen’s.”

“Oh yeah that one’s gone,” Hukporti added. “I would take it, too.”

“We want the fans and the city to have as much fun with that and embrace it. So it’s cool. I think we’re focused on the task at hand, but we want those guys to go out there and have fun.”

The Knicks favor to not get caught in semantics. Whereas they’ve ended a quarter-century-long convention finals drought, they know the work that is still to carry the town its first NBA title in 52 years — and that they will’t afford to get wrapped within the metropolis’s celebration.

“Truly [quieting the outside noise] is not that difficult. I’ve always said you’ve gotta remain level-headed when it’s positive and when it’s negative. You can’t listen to the positive and think you’re not gonna listen to the negative and vice versa,” mentioned Brunson. “Obviously I understand what’s going on, but I have a great support system around me that helps keep me level headed.”

But the info stay. This Knicks roster has completed one thing no staff at Madison Sq. Backyard has managed within the final 25 years. Moments like this may be few and much between — or by no means in any respect — and this metropolis will relish in its glory whereas it lasts.

“Our hard work — they’re appreciating it,” Robinson mentioned. “They’re thanking us.”

“Nah, I gotta go there,” mentioned Dadiet, whose signal hangs on sixth Avenue and West 4th Road. “I don’t even know where it is, but I gotta go.”

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