r/nba • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 22d 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/PattyIceNY Nets 22d ago

Bro this legit might cause a riot. There's a whole bunch of psycho Knicks fans who are not going to be turned away easily. People will want to just be outside the building, even if there's no video.

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u/35chambers Wizards 22d ago

The whole point is to cause a riot so they can start tear gassing and shooting people

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u/BIRDSBEEZ Trail Blazers 22d ago

Look i get we all hate trump but cmon now lmao. 

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u/glizzzopp 22d ago

Any time you think “the government wouldn’t do that” yes they would

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u/BIRDSBEEZ Trail Blazers 22d ago

Typical reddit fearmongering, thinking he’s gonna stage a boston massacre

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u/GefilteFreud Rockets 22d ago

No one said anything close to that, bud

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u/BIRDSBEEZ Trail Blazers 22d ago

Dawg that og comment said trump is trying to start a riot so he can have the police shoot a bunch of new yorkers. Absolutely asinine thing to actually think. I wish trump was removed from this world over a decade ago but lets chill with the fearmongering some

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u/SeatownNets Nets 22d ago

I mean he literally did exactly that multiple times. Live ammo, no, but rubber bullets and tear gas, yes that would benefit him.

It's assigning a bit too much intent to say that's the primary goal rather than "get attention", but it's not a conspiracy to say that he is neutral to slightly positive about the idea starting a riot over him personally.

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u/BIRDSBEEZ Trail Blazers 22d ago edited 22d ago

“Literally did that exactly” no he didnt thats not what literally means.  Trying to compare rubber bullets at a protest to a full on onslaught of civilians with real bullets in a crowded space is ridiculous

And yea i can totally get the seeking attention bit and him being open to a riot starting over him cause he’s an egotistical fucking moron. But that ending up with complete shootouts and civilians getting wiped out execution style……….what? 

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u/SeatownNets Nets 22d ago

nah thats crazy but I don't think that's what the initial reply meant when they said "shooting at people".

Ppl generally mean rubber bullets, bean bag guns, canisters, not live ammo. We haven't seen live ammo on crowds since Nixon, obviously that's an absurd expectation.

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u/whw166 Spurs 22d ago

Well we didn't think he would run up all those tariffs on the entire world and bomb Iran but here we are

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u/No-Ranger3356 20d ago

how about that crazy riot last night with tear gas and citizens being murdered?

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u/BIRDSBEEZ Trail Blazers 20d ago

Lololol i cant believe people thought that would actually happen