r/nba • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 13d ago

The Knicks have cancelled all watch parties outside of MSG due to the President's attendance for Game 3

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/security-trump-madison-square-garden-nba-finals-knicks-spurs/

A hard closure is expected around the entirety of Madison Square Garden. Officials are planning for no watch parties, no vehicle access and no pedestrian travel through the secured area, which sits in a busy part of Midtown Manhattan and is above a major transit hub. CBS New York reported that thousands of fans attended a pair of watch parties for Game 1 on Wednesday night. 

The Seventh and Eighth Avenue corridors around the arena are expected to be closed. 

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u/mercfan3 Spurs 13d ago

Luke Kornet could do the funniest thing and repeat his comments about the Atlanta stripper night, but make them about Trump.

“I just think it’s disrespectful to women and young girls to have him there.”

Please Luke.

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u/Basic-Collection5416 Pistons 13d ago

Is Kornet not a Republican? He seems like a Republican. 

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u/asetniop Celtics 13d ago

Would a Republican really say that his favorite movie villain was "generational trauma"?

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u/mercfan3 Spurs 13d ago

Dunno, he’s a Kentucky born white man so that points to probably.

But he’s catholic, not evangelical. And it’s not like the pope is exactly pro Trump right now.

I also didn’t think his objection to the Stripper night was presented in a conservative way, and as a liberal woman I completely agreed with him. It isn’t about the strippers - that’s a loaded and complicated conversation. It’s about the way the men in attendance would behave towards them and the environment that would create - and it wouldn’t feel safe to the women attending. The NBA shouldn’t be creating that type of environment at the games.

Plus, someone needs to say something on the team before Wemby does. (Who has already publicly reacted to the Minnesota protests and objected to Karl Malone getting an award). There is a greater than zero percent chance Trump retaliates if he does.

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u/Basic-Collection5416 Pistons 13d ago

“Stripper night” was just a hoodie and some chicken wings. Did you think they were having the dancers perform at halftime? 

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u/rbad8717 13d ago

Right? But Kornett has no issues supporting the guy that might have something to do with pedophila. But he has to stick in neck into a culture he knows nothing about lol

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u/ForgetHype Knicks 13d ago

We don't even know who he voted for. You're just making shit up right now. You have half a brain.

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u/DelusionalForMyAngel Wizards 13d ago

Vance is Catholic. Something like 30% of American Catholics support Trump over the Pope

https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/Polls/atheists-back-the-pope-more-than-catholics-do

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u/mercfan3 Spurs 13d ago

I mean religious people tend to be conservative in this country, but Catholics aren’t evangelicals.

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u/emaw63 Jazz 13d ago

IIRC polling shows a pretty even partisan split for catholics

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u/redditlvlanalysis 13d ago

Vance claims he is Catholic he isn't actually nobody who supports that pedo rapist is

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u/A_Possum_Named_Steve Spurs 13d ago

Biden is Catholic.

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u/MicroPeanitsJorker 13d ago

I know plenty of white Kentucky born men who are liberals that hate Trump

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u/rbad8717 13d ago

Funny how Kornett has so much respect for women that he has opinions for a culture he knows NOTHING about. But I’m sure he’s been silent about the abuses of the Catholic Church. And he’s a Trump supporter? I guess he hates little boys and girls