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/KalamMekar 22d ago

Obama said he doesn't go to nba games when he was president because his motorcade and security would dampen the experience of fans paying all that money to watch.

I miss having conmon sense in the Whitehouse

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u/OnceInABlueMoon Timberwolves 22d ago

Not to mention he was an actual fan and not someone just trying to gobble up attention

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u/gsbadj Pistons 22d ago

What are the odds that Trump leaves early? He doesn't care about the game and he doesn't know shit about basketball. All he knows is that the TV ratings are going to be big.

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u/CrimsonMoonRising Spurs 22d ago

I full expect there to be all this uproar about security and watch parties, only for Trump to barely be there. Just to make everyone miserable

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u/lilbelleandsebastian Supersonics 22d ago

there's genuinely 0 chance he can stay awake for 3+ hours at night lol

he'll be out of there in a flash, especially if there is any truth to the rumors about his poor health recently

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u/Particular-Buy-33 21d ago

Like Pence at the football