NEW YORK — Early last Saturday night during a preseason matchup against the Brooklyn Nets at Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks rolled an in-house production video on the arena monitor. It was one of those artistic montages meant to capture the team's training-camp work to date and inspire the crowd. The video builds momentum toward the moment Derrick Rose appears shirtless, coated only in sweat and determination, lifting weights in slow motion and max effort.
In a different market, you can be sure the hometown fans would've filled the arena with roaring support and pure throaty hope that a former NBA MVP will renew his magic for their team.
Knicks fans did not opt for that hope.
Maybe it was because Rose wasn't there. Maybe it was because why he wasn't there—tending to a sexual assault accusation in civil court across the country in Los Angeles instead of keeping his first date with Knicks fans in the preseason home opener.
However you want to look at it, Knicks fans were restrained in their initial embrace of this new-look team. For a night, they were willing to ...
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For the First Time in a Long Time, Knicks Have Given Their Fans Reason to Hope
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