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The city is abuzz. You can barely remember the last time it felt like this. Certainly not since the last time the Knicks were in the playoffs. When was that\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. May 18, 2013? Before being eliminated at around 11:09 P.M.<\/em>? Or something like that\u2014again, you can barely remember.<\/p>\n

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When the Knicks are good, everyone staring at their phones as they hurry down the sidewalk is actually a joy to behold. Even the man who snarled \u201cWatch where you\u2019re going!\u201d after you accidentally brushed shoulders while getting off the subway proceeds to smile and apologize instead upon seeing your Knicks hat.<\/p>\n

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The Knicks\u2019 success means that, suddenly, the three-foot-tall piles of garbage on the sidewalk in front of your apartment don\u2019t smell so bad. The rat that scampered across your feet when you were sitting in the park on a date last week honestly seemed kind of cute, too. It was the size of a small dog and, at the end of the day, what\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n

You finally get to ask, \u201cHow \u2019bout those Knicks, huh?\u201d like a character in a movie. You don\u2019t just tune out commercials for a Celtics-Heat playoff game by fantasizing about greeting your friends with a clap on the back and a \u201cYou catch the Knicks game last night?\u201d or \u201cWhew, this team is fun.\u201d You can say those things out loud now.<\/p>\n

Even though you\u2019re starting<\/em> to think about the upcoming draft, it\u2019s not at the forefront of your mind. If you do check a mock draft, you can\u2019t help but contain your smile now that you need to scroll down until you reach the Knicks pick. You\u2019ve never had to do that before\u2014well, only to find the second-round projections whenever the Knicks traded their valuable first-rounders for players you could\u2019ve sworn had retired years ago.<\/p>\n

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In fact, you find yourself picturing marquee free agents being lured away to play at the World\u2019s Most Famous Arena in the Mecca of Basketball. Sure, signing top-tier players still seems pretty alien to you, but simply realizing that your team could get meetings with them is exciting. The mere idea that a superstar might be intrigued enough to at least hear a sales pitch for coming to play for the New York Knickerbockers is enough to make you tear up.<\/p>\n

You listen to your dad talk about the Knicks championship teams of his youth and just how incredible it was to witness those old-school Hall of Famers. You\u2019re in such a chipper mood that you don\u2019t even bother bringing up the fact that those players couldn\u2019t beat the worst team in today\u2019s league, or that their tallest opponent was probably, like, six-foot-five and sold insurance in the off-season.<\/p>\n

It also shouldn\u2019t go unsaid that, thankfully, your obsession with a doe-eyed, twenty-two-year-old ballplayer from France named Frank Ntilikina whom you\u2019ve never met doesn\u2019t seem so weird anymore. You remain adamant that Coach Thibodeau should be giving him more playing time, though. That kid could be special someday\u2014he\u2019s already a defensive force out there!<\/p>\n

And you know what? It doesn\u2019t even matter that the Nets are better and may boast the greatest offense of any superteam ever to take the court in an N.B.A. game. Who cares? The Knicks are good.<\/p>\n

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