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3 days ago
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WATCH: Knicks Fans Attack A Tyrese Haliburton Doll Following Game 5 Win
WATCH: Knicks Fans Attack A Tyrese Haliburton Doll Following Game 5 Win originally appeared on Fadeaway World. Tyrese Haliburton may have just dethroned Trae Young as the most hated man in New York. At least presently, the Knicks fans have no love lost for the Pacers' guard, especially considering the history between the teams. The Knicks forced a Game 6 after a dominant 111-94 win in Game 5 at New York's Madison Square Garden. Advertisement A video surfaced online after this game where Knicks fans had reportedly taken to the streets of New York following their Game 5 win. From chanting "Go New York, Go New York Go!" to climbing on things like cars in the streets, the scenes were wild in New York. In another video, Knicks fans were seen kicking and smacking a Tyrese Haliburton doll on the road. Knicks fans tend to take their celebrations public, even if it's for the smallest of victories. From celebrities to nearly one in every four New York natives, everybody loves the Knicks in NYC. From cursing at Trae Young on the streets a few years ago to climbing up polls and being rowdy after their Game 6 win against the Celtics this year, the journey of a Knicks fan has definitely been like a roller coaster ride. Tyrese Haliburton has become another victim of this passionate fan base that stops at nothing to show their love for their team. Haliburton struggled in Game 5 with only 8 points and 6 assists for the night. This gave extra satisfaction to Knicks fans who eagerly hope their team can pull off the nearly impossible feat of coming back from 3-1 down in their series. The Knicks And Pacers: A Dive Into The Rivalry The Pacers and Knicks' rivalry goes back to the early 90s when Reggie Miller was still playing. The Knicks have a 102-96 advantage in their regular season record against the Pacers, however, the Pacers lead 29-23 in their postseason record. Advertisement During the 1993-2000 stretch, they met in the Playoffs six times. During this phase. Reggie Miller developed a bitter rivalry with Knicks superfan Spike Lee. This rivalry gave birth to Miller's infamous choke sign, which Haliburton tried to emulate in Game 1 of their series this season. This rivalry was revived last season when the Pacers eliminated the Knicks in the second round's Game 7. Now, with this season's Eastern Conference Finals matchup, fans have made it clear that they are still not fond of the Pacers. Is Tyrese Haliburton the new most-hated man in New York? Or does Trae Young still have that crown? Let us know what you think in the comments section. Related: "People Might Think I'm Aura Farming": Tyrese Haliburton Feels He "Wasted" The Reggie Miller Celebration This story was originally reported by Fadeaway World on May 30, 2025, where it first appeared.
Fox News
27-05-2025
- General
- Fox News
Pacers fan faces felony charges for allegedly stabbing 2 Knicks fans at brewery
The New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers rivalry has reached a new level with a fan being charged for allegedly stabbing two Knicks fans earlier this month. Jarrett Funke, a 24-year-old from Carmel, Indiana, has been charged with three felonies for his alleged actions at a local brewery during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals: battery by means of a deadly weapon, battery resulting in serious bodily injury, and criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon, according to online records. Funke, according to Fox 59, allegedly got into an altercation, prompting a 911 call, but he had left the establishment. An employee of the brewery called police again, saying Funke had returned - the caller then said Funke stabbed someone in the back. Police found two individuals with stabbing wounds when they arrived on the scene - one who had been stabbed in the back, and another in the leg. One of the victims told police that he had "briefly displayed a black folding pocket knife to deter (Funke) but repocketed it, as he had no intention of using it." Funk allegedly knocked a Knicks hat off one of the victims and began cursing at him. Funke reportedly said he "retrieved his pocketknife from his hoodie and swung it around towards (one of the Knicks fans) back with his right hand" after one of the Knicks fans pushed him to the ground and "began punching him in the face." Funke claimed the Knicks fans started the ruckus, but court documents say multiple witnesses labeled Funke as the "primary aggressor." The Pacers won the game to lead 2-0 in the series, but New York stormed back from a 20-point deficit for the third time this playoffs to win their first game of the series on Sunday night. This is the ninth meeting between the Knicks and Pacers in the playoffs, with four coming throughout the 1990s. They also met in last year's Eastern Conference semifinals. Game 4 is Tuesday night in Indianapolis. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
The Guardian
27-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Man charged with stabbing Knicks fans at Indiana brewery during playoff series
An Indiana Pacers fan has been charged with stabbing two supporters of the New York Knicks on the night of their teams' playoff series. According to court documents, 24-year-old Jarrett Funke of Hamilton county in Indiana, was charged with battery by means of a deadly weapon, battery resulting in serious bodily injury, and criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon. Officers were called to a brewery in Carmel, Indiana, on the evening of 23 May, when the local NBA team, the Pacers, were playing the Knicks in the Eastern Conference finals at New York's Madison Square Garden. The Pacers beat the Knicks to take a 2-0 lead in the series. Funke is said to have knocked the Knicks cap off one of the alleged victims. After Funke was removed from the premises, he is said to have returned and confronted the two alleged victims. One of the men who was stabbed said he showed a knife to Funke but did not intend to use it and put it back in his pocket. An altercation ensued during which Funke allegedly stabbed the two Knicks fans. Court documents said one of the fans had a wound to his back, and the other a laceration on one of his legs. Funke claims the Knicks fans were 'talking shit' and punched and shoved him, before he swung his knife in self-defence. According to court documents, several witnesses say Funke was the aggressor in the situation. Funke was scheduled to appear at a hearing in Hamilton county on Tuesday afternoon. The incident is not the first involving friction between Pacers and Knicks fans during the playoffs. A Pacers fan was pelted with garbage near Madison Square Garden after the Knicks' victory over the Boston Celtics in the previous round.
New York Times
20-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Tyrese Haliburton invites heckled Pacers fan to attend Eastern Conference finals Game 4
An Indiana Pacers fan who was harassed and hit with bags of garbage while wearing a Tyrese Haliburton jersey in New York City has received a special invitation from the Pacers star to attend Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals in Indianapolis. Hans Perez, a firefighter and lifelong Pacers supporter, shared his story Monday on 'The Pat McAfee Show.' During the appearance, Perez showed off a Pacers tattoo on his wrist and was surprised by a video call from Haliburton, who delivered the invitation personally. Advertisement 'I personally wanna bring you and a plus one out to Indiana for Game 4,' Haliburton said. 'Everybody in our organization wants to make sure that you're taken care of.' … 'All the team's excited to meet you. It's all we've been talking about.' Perez went viral over the weekend after a video showed him being followed and heckled by a crowd of Knicks fans in the streets of New York following their Game 6 win over the Boston Celtics. Despite being hit with bags of trash, he kept walking calmly, drawing widespread attention online. 'It started getting a little more handsy. Dudes wanted the jersey. I started to get a little nervous,' he told McAfee, saying he started looking for police. 'The mob started getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I'm just trying to walk.' Haliburton and McAfee both expressed sympathy for Perez, who was moved by the gesture. Haliburton invited Perez and a guest to attend Game 4 against the Knicks next Tuesday. Perez, excited by the news, responded with a spirited 'Let's go Pacers!' chant and said he'd figure out how to take the day off work to make it happen. 'I'm pretty sure we can work something out,' he said. The series between the Knicks and Pacers will be a physical one with bad blood, as it's a rematch from last year's playoffs. It took Indiana seven games to get past the Knicks and reach the 2024 Eastern Conference finals. In that victory, Knicks star Jalen Brunson suffered a fracture in his shooting hand. Game 1 between the Pacers and Knicks tips off Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m. ET.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
The Knicks' transition from laughing stock to title contenders is complete
On Friday night in New York City, more than 19,000 Knicks fans poured out of Madison Square Garden and onto Seventh Avenue, celebrating their team's improbable 4-2 series victory over the Boston Celtics. The NBA's social media peanut gallery had previously taken issue with Knicks fans for their overly exuberant early-round victory celebrations, but after landing in the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in a quarter-century, this party was as legit as the Knicks newfound title hopes. New York had beaten their rivals by a franchise playoff-record margin of 38 points, ending Boston's reign as NBA champs. If you watched the way they suffocated the Celtics, you know it wasn't even that close. The way this series ended was as stunning as how it began, with consecutive historic Celtic meltdowns at TD Garden, when the home team surrendered 20-point second-half leads not once but twice. Then New York were moments from wrapping up another improbable victory in Game 4 when Boston cornerstone Jayson Tatum went down with an achilles injury. Back in Boston, down three games to one, with their season on the brink and their all-NBA player in the hospital recovering from season-ending surgery, Boston powered through Game 5 on pure adrenaline. That wave of raw energy had crashed by the start of Game 6, and the Celtics finally tapped out. The Garden crowd let out 25 years of shpilkes as they watched their team bounce the champs. Related: Rampant Knicks blow out Celtics to advance to first East finals since 2000 And so after a season of trying to figure out who they are and what their identity is, the Knicks have finally found a label: Eastern Conference finalists. Up until the clock struck zero in Game 6, accurate adjectives to describe New York's on-court personality were quite limited, but 'resilient' and 'inconsistent' probably summed them up best. Injuries, trades and roster turnover meant that the lunch-pail defense-first teams that had marked the Tom Thibodeau-coached Knicks prior to this season were no more. The loss of their beastly, rim protecting, offensive rebounding big men – Isaiah Hartenstein to free agency and Mitchell Robinson to an ankle injury until late February – were glaring. That weakness in the paint meant newly acquired defensive stalwart Mikal Bridges, and defensive Swiss army knife OG Anunoby were hopeless against perimeter shooting for most of the season. That said, Karl-Anthony Towns, who came to New York in a late preseason blockbuster deal, jumped out of the gate early, looking like the alpha dog Minnesota rarely got to see, setting a career high for rebounds while combining with Jalen Brunson to average more than 50 points a game. Knicks fans were being treated to blistering ball movement and some of the most explosive offensive play the franchise has ever produced, but as the games piled up, the warts began to show. Around mid-season, the excitement that had followed the team since their 2021 playoff appearance seemed to crest, with doubts creeping in about the team's ceiling. The team was haunted by a stat that followed them around for all 82 games: since 2003, among teams that have won 50 games or more, the Knicks had the worst winning percentage against teams .500 or better. They were whipped by the Celtics, the Cavs and the Thunder. New York winning their first title since 1973? This team couldn't even beat the pre-Luka Lakers at home. Fans braced themselves for another playoff letdown. Such negativity has context: the New York Knickerbockers, despite their stature as a pillar of the NBA, are mostly a losing franchise that have had just three extended runs of success in their history, one of which was during the NBA's prehistoric early-1950s. Under the ownership of James Dolan, their fans' fandom has repeatedly been tested by a leadership that's provided two of the most inept, perplexing and sometimes dastardly decades a professional sports team has ever known. Then suddenly, Dolan hired Leon Rose as team president and finally got out of the way. Knicks fans expected the former prominent player agent to attract sparkly free agents such as Kevin Durant. It didn't happen, but a meticulous rebuild did, and in the span of five seasons, the team transitioned from NBA laughing stock to legitimate title contenders. These Knicks are arguably one of the most oddly constructed basketball teams in recent memory, and that's because the Knicks have consistently been one of the worst drafting franchises in NBA history. In an era where teams have tanked to rebuild their franchises, New York's renaissance hasn't been buoyed by a homegrown star, or stars, such as the Celtics' Tatum and Jaylen Brown, but rather a delicate series of trades and under-the-radar free-agent signings made by their under-the-radar president. Rose has not held a single press conference since being hired in March 2020, which is wild in a town of quote-thirsty tabloids. The result is a starting five that's arguably unmatched in the NBA, and now that Mitchell Robinson has worked his way back into impacting games with his menacing paint presence and timely offensive rebounds, Knicks fans are starting to see the full complement of what Rose had in mind when he went all-in on pairing Towns with Brunson, and what he saw in Bridges when he gambled a stack of draft picks on the league's iron man. They figured out a way to get past the NBA's new junkyard dogs in Detroit, then ousted the champs in six. When it's all working, Brunson is pushing the ball and finishing with his footwork, Bridges is sticking mid-range jumpers and ripping the ball from his opponents, Anunoby is stifling opponents' most prolific players, Robinson's active hands are flummoxing offenses, Towns is involved early, sticking threes and working the post, Hart's engine is wearing teams out and bench players like Deuce McBride and Cam Payne are making meaningful contributions. Now they meet Indiana, who beat them in the Eastern Conference semi-finals last season. A year ago the Knicks' roster was eviscerated by injuries, allowing the Pacers to sneak past New York over seven games. Now the Knicks are a completely different team, a healthy group that's figuring it all out at just the right time. Meanwhile the Pacers are also much improved, having played some of the best basketball in the league over the past several months. We don't know who will emerge in what is sure to be a grueling Eastern Conference finals, but we do know the Knicks are taking nothing for granted. I feel like we have a long way to go,' said Brunson after Friday night's win. 'Just the confidence we have in each other and everything. Just knowing who we are. We have to be unsatisfied.'
