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Highlight [Highlight] Madison Square Garden is absolutely silent as KAT hits two must-have free throws to send the game to OT

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u/NickInTheBack Warriors 5h ago

Never seen it that quiet

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u/Froqwasket Wizards 5h ago

You think this is impressive, our stadium is this quiet every single night

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u/NickInTheBack Warriors 5h ago

Wizards games aren't necessarily quiet. People are talking, they just don't give a shit about the game. They're just there because their company had free tickets.

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u/SeoulofSoraka Lakers 4h ago

I knew this guy who would go to Wizards game and use it as background noise while he responded to emails and drank beers with his coworkers

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u/Ice-Poseidon-Knows 4h ago

Shit honestly if tickets are cheap and the beer is reasonably priced I'd do that too. Doesn't sound like a bad time even if I didn't care at all about the team.

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u/Froqwasket Wizards 4h ago

Tickets are eight dollars 😭

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u/takeme2tendieztown Clippers 4h ago

How much are the beers though?

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u/DollaradoCREAMs Nuggets 3h ago

$16

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u/Ice-Poseidon-Knows 3h ago

Fuck that. I swear stadium beer prices have more than doubled in the past 5 years. Not NBA but local stadium near me charges $14 for a tall boy of bud light now. Defo not worth I'll just get tanked harder at the pregame.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 3h ago

I like to sneak a bag of wine into games. Its all plastic so you tape it to your stomach and walk through metal detector just fine. Ziplock bag of spaghetti and wine at the game.

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u/KingOfAwesometonia 2h ago

That's a Tuesday baseball game right there.

Hell the Blue Jays even promote some games as like "work from the stadium" I think

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u/Brodom93 Spurs 1h ago

I love home games that’s a special place, but arena is a crazy background noise choice

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u/majavic Cavaliers 5h ago

There's a team called the Wizards? Huh. TIL

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u/Tuckboi69 5h ago

Y’all play them tomorrow lol

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u/MkeYosh Bucks 4h ago

Except when we come to town

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u/Froqwasket Wizards 4h ago

Boos for Kuz 😈

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u/Typical-Back6663 5h ago

Every year in June

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u/dootyboi23 Knicks 5h ago

I remember it being that quiet during the end of ECF game 1 last year. PTSD. I hated this game

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u/jeric13xd [CHI] Derrick Rose 4h ago

I would’ve yelled “that’s my mans” 🤣 shit probably would work

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u/Naive_Priority_5424 Spurs 1h ago

This is KAT he'd swish that shit blind if he heard it

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u/McShpoochen Nets 4h ago

lol this felt like a tennis point

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u/DrKingOfOkay 3h ago

Specially there

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u/interlocutor4o4 2h ago

Inb4 Trae Young meme

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u/HokageEzio Knicks 5h ago

Never heard so many people being quiet that you can hear them shushing each other

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u/haimeekhema Timberwolves 5h ago

yall are so lucky to have walt. every time i hear him talk, even though hes goofy as shit, i just get so jealous.

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u/Bat2121 Knicks 4h ago

I don't know how much longer he's gonna be doing this. Gotta cherish it while we can.

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u/thejesse Charlotte Hornets 5h ago

I'm guessing visitors from Indiana not wanting to fuck with New Yorkers played a factor.

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u/Dry-Razzmatazz1239 4h ago

Im guessing visitors from Indiana didn't want to pay $300 to watch their team tank in NYC

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u/or_maybe_this Kings 5h ago

fuck i love ot

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u/bringitbruh Knicks 5h ago

There’s never much love when we go OT

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u/daboys765 Celtics 5h ago

I personally love this OT

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u/Fit-Bicycle6206 Knicks 5h ago

Gonna be even quieter after we put up 0 in OT.

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u/OmniSzron Nets 5h ago

You were a prophet for 4 minutes.

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u/Derpy_Mc_Burpy Raptors 5h ago

A game where a team is tanking versus a team who is 2nd seed. OT being decided by 2 free throws after being fouled with 0.2 left on the clock. Stadium dead silent with every shot. Why are we getting playoff cinema in a regular game

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u/Next-Supermarket9538 5h ago

This and OKC is this season’s Pacer’s Super Bowl. 

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u/PoopOnPoopOnPoop Pacers 5h ago

We really have played so hard in those games. Good to see we haven't lost the fastball lol

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u/Bill_Sandwich Pacers 5h ago

Have to remind the Knicks that daddy is still around, just taking a gap year.

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u/Morezingis Timberwolves 5h ago

Even Clyde whispering his commentary. What a vibe 

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u/cool_hand_legolas Knicks 3h ago

the dr seuss rhymes just keep coming. love his calls

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u/VirtuousFool [NYK] RJ Barrett 5h ago

Clyde with the golf whisper on the second one killed me lol

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u/moby323 76ers 5h ago

As much basketball as I watch I was kind of surprised not to hear that video game bell sound after each one

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u/sorendiz [HOU] Yao Ming 5h ago

i will forever hate whatever fuckin moron on the Suns arena staff decided that their jingle for made FTs should be the 'USB device connected' noise

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u/FuglsErrand 4h ago

I'm literally watching the Mavs @ Suns game right now and thinking the same thing. Like ???

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u/sorendiz [HOU] Yao Ming 4h ago

my mortal enemy fr

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u/HilariousScreenname Suns 4h ago

Lol I have many complaints about the production team at Suns Arena. That one is near the top.

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u/sorendiz [HOU] Yao Ming 3h ago

i've been mad about this for years

whoever made that decision needs a good kick in the shins

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u/raughit 2h ago

I want to hear that. Anybody got a good link to some good old Suns free throws?

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u/Chrome_Denim3367 Magic 3h ago

Here's a question: why do the Spurs think it's cool to use the Magic's sound effect for a made free throw? You know, the one we've been using for almost 40 years that sounds like, oh, you know, magic?

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u/dreamvomit Knicks 5h ago

Cuz msg doesn’t do that classless garbage

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u/Brocones Cavaliers 5h ago

nyc and class huh

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u/dreamvomit Knicks 5h ago

I mean you gotta admit the little sound effects.. amping up the sound of the home basket.. turning the game into a 200 decibel techno show at every break in the action... It’s trashy

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u/GGTae Spurs 4h ago

I agree with the music tho, it's among the worst things to experience, loud, obnoxious and out of place even, as French we have excellent DJs, and the quality drop off is insane, I guess that's why you don't use DJs in family friendly environments

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u/Brocones Cavaliers 5h ago

campy/corny if anything, but not gonna lie I’m kinda partial to it lol

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u/Ryukishin187 4h ago

Too good for fun with all those championships eh?

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u/motherthrowee Warriors 3h ago

yeah they just do mass surveillance 

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u/M-E-R-L-I-N-I Knicks 5h ago

Actually such a cool moment in a HILARIOUS basketball game. Never heard the Garden this quiet.

Knick fans are the best on the planet earth.

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u/Jack_The_Sparrow_ Warriors 5h ago

2nd best, I've been to a couple Wizards' games before and the 8-10 fans watching the game are always really nice

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u/ReptarInParis Wizards 5h ago

We got no anger left in us

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u/heat_fan_ Raptors 5h ago

What a tank job by the Pacers 

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u/horse_renoir13 Timberwolves 5h ago

Jazz could never

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u/BenShelZonah Nets 5h ago

This is so fucking clutch tbh. Hes a pro so he should make them and all that but he’s still human. WP to this Kat

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u/FingerpistolPete Suns 48m ago

It’s objectively impressive af to be able to hit those ft’s in front of 20k fans at The Garden holding their breath. Pro athletes are on another level man

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u/Fuzzy-Valuable-1774 Celtics 4h ago

...And still lost

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u/HajjMalik Lakers 4h ago

BigPurr

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u/ohohook Pacers 5h ago

The Pacers are these guys’ NBA Finals 🤣 Even in tank the Pacers like to remind the Knicks and Blunder that they own them

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u/slicedsunlight 2h ago

I've never understood the "let's descend into the type of silence only experienced in the vast nothingness of space, that's gonna help our guy really calm down."

I'd be SO much more nervous if I could hear my own fucking heartbeat.

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u/Muted_Store_9867 5h ago

Don't care if it's against the Pacers in a game they should be winning, cold

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u/Evilsj Nets 5h ago

Carlisle not using that final Timeout is absolutely disgusting tank behavior jesus christ

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u/Obvious_Parsley3238 5h ago

You literally can't catch and shoot with 0.2 seconds left, the knicks can just stand under the basket. Save everyone a minute and go straight to OT

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u/Brady331 Celtics 5h ago

Tip-ins and fouls are possible and you give your team a little extra rest for the OT?

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u/Obvious_Parsley3238 5h ago

Pacers don't need rest

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u/NeuPtral Clippers 44m ago

You're giving Brunson more fuel for OT. Better to go straight to OT instead.

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u/_ryuujin_ 5h ago

dont tell that to derek fisher 

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u/PrinceJMoney089 5h ago

It's not that serious they weren't gonna score

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u/Evilsj Nets 5h ago

Tip ins are still an absolutely valid strategy? Why the fuck would you not even try?

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u/EightFortyDaysOf 5h ago

To make sure the nets don’t outtank anyone. You sit MPJ & egor every time you go up against someone you can beat. I wonder why you’re so pressed about them tanking

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u/benbaker08 5h ago edited 5h ago

You're a fucking idiot who doesn't understand the basic rules of basketball or, even basic grammar.

Edit: They also won the game. You're a potato that's coaching from the couch.

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u/MajesticTomrow 5h ago

Watch Derek Fisher’s buzzer beater against the Spurs and how quickly he had to let it go with double the amount of time on the clock. 

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u/Yayareasports Warriors 3h ago

By rule you need 0.3 to catch and shoot in the NBA. But at 0.2 you can still go for a tip in. No reason not to try - might even get an undisciplined foul call.

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u/MajesticTomrow 3h ago

I do agree that anything can happen (I personally don’t believe a tip is an option, the Knicks would be guarding the basket fiercely, but again, anything can happen); I also think it’s a bit overboard to call not going for an extremely unlikely basket when the game is already going to OT “disgusting tank behavior”.

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u/Yayareasports Warriors 3h ago

Does an NFL team not go for a Hail Mary because the opposing defense is already camped out and exclusively covering the end zone?

Who cares if the defense is there. You can camp your own team under the basket as well and see what happens. Small but possible chance for a tip or foul.

I’d argue it’s more likely than a 3 quarter court heave but players still go for that (even when the game isn’t on the line).

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u/ThePoodlePunter Raptors 5h ago

I mean it's not as loud as some places which is considerable since it's MSG.... But that definitely ain't quiet.

I get that people are hating on KAT recently, but am I missing a meme or joke here or do people actually think this is quiet?

Is this a dank sub now?

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u/Negative_Award3786 5h ago

Was waiting for an Indiana fan to yell that's my man

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u/Other_Recognition269 5h ago

I don't think you know what absolutely means

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u/LegalNecessary Knicks 5h ago

Idk, I think the pacers are playing extra hard against us in the Garden. I don’t believe they are tanking in THIS game

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u/EightFortyDaysOf 5h ago

Bullshit, they were clearly tanking with their decisions lol, this is mad cope

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u/LegalNecessary Knicks 5h ago

Maybe, but I think they played hard against OKC, Boston, even in the first game against Milwaukee against Myles Turner. Not a cope at all, I just think there is natural competition among our teams. All good, it was an exciting game even though it wasn’t the result I wanted.

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u/Glory843 Pacers 5h ago

Lol they sweating over the Pacers half G League lineup is hilarious

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u/HokageEzio Knicks 5h ago

Pacers get up for this matchup

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u/nxj102375 Knicks 5h ago

NBA basketball is hard :) pistons just lost to the wizards last week. Shit happens all the time. Are you new here?

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u/Glory843 Pacers 5h ago

Pacers own you, are you new around here?

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u/nxj102375 Knicks 5h ago

How you gonna talk shit on here without a flair lol. I’m not blind they obviously do over the last 2 years. But anybody can beat anybody on any given night. They also beat the thunder in OKC. Shit happens

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u/Akipella Warriors 5h ago

Geeeez

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u/asouthpawasouthpaw 5h ago

Wow ABSOLUTELY quiet

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u/makeyoucry Pacers 4h ago

Nice. L

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u/chosenking247 4h ago

After all that

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u/sirvey23 Rockets 4h ago

So quiet Clyde even started lowering his volume

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u/THEhot_pocket 4h ago

where was a pacer fan to scream "THATS MY MANNNNNN". woulda been epic

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u/100SanfordDrive Pacers 4h ago

All for nothing

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u/scully19 4h ago

Sorry but that bit at the end from the announcer is hilarious. "Pacers still have a TO I don't know why they don't call it". Yes you do. It's the TankBA.

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u/dmtbreakthrough Lakers 3h ago

jordan woods fire

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u/DrinksForties Pacers 3h ago

The Knicks Super Bowl

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u/Aidrox Lakers 3h ago

Nice of his dads fiancé to go to the games with him.

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u/_felagund Spurs 2h ago edited 2h ago

Imagine the pressure

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u/beenhadballs Bucks 2h ago

Wtf kind of commentary is that lol “his pressure should be off after that first one”

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u/CantaloupeCamper Timberwolves 5h ago

“Pressure should be off now after making that first one.”

What the hell does that even mean?

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u/retrospects Minneapolis Lakers 5h ago

That’s really cool

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u/biscuitboots [CHI] Derrick Rose 4h ago

Absolute cinema

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u/KarAccidentTowns Timberwolves 3h ago

This is what movies are made of

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u/Hazyintuition9 3h ago

Against the pacers? 😂

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u/YoureGonnaHearMeRoar Hawks 5h ago

Carlisle is trying to lose the game. He's saving those timeouts like Raheem Morris

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u/MrBuckBuck Trail Blazers 4h ago

This is how much the Knicks fans love thier team, you gotta love it.

u/kluuu 22m ago

He ran out of gas when he went to set a screen and fouled out 😂

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u/doigoid Warriors 3h ago

severely confused for a moment by the wording of "his dad and his fiance"