Why is New York City considered the Basketball "Mecca" when the Knicks only have 2 championships...

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

Entire basketball conferences were pretty much built by NYC players

 

[GoAggieGo.]

We gotta expand this.

Which state (or city) produces the best athletes? I'm going to limit this to football, basketball, baseball, track and martial arts (boxing/mma).

More than likely going to be a southern state and/or city. Let me go do my googles and compare.

 

[tuckgod]

 

[010101]

world's most famous arena*

 

[DPresidential]

Ask nikkas "other than the Islamic Mecca, what other mecca can you name?"

This is some lazy twitter attention seeking.

'Sgust.

 

[Raw Lyrics]

And if you're wondering if this marketing strategy works, look no further than the 90s Knicks. An absolutely disappointing lot who couldn't muster one ring, orchestrated playoff choke after playoff choke, yet are revered in NYC as if they did. But every night during their playoff runs you heard they were the team who represented "The Mecca of Basketball." The problem is MSG has no intention of fielding a Ny Knicks team worth worshiping.

Long winded I know, but I hope this sheds some light on NYC's perpetual overratedness.

Yes, because losing in 7 games to bums like Jordan and Olajuwon is something to be ashamed of.


Were the 90s a Great, all-time team? No, but they left it all out on the floor when they went against those Bulls teams. Everything else you said is spot on.

 

[Rekkapryde]

 

[SNYC]

Wait..

Is that a young person calling NY the 'Mecca' of basketball

 

[mson]

That's why it's called the basketball mecca and not the NBA mecca.

 

[Controversy]

More than likely going to be a southern state and/or city. Let me go do my googles and compare.

Philly

Kobe
Wilt
B-hop
Marvin Harrison
Reggie Jackson
Kyle Lowry
Rasheed Wallace

that's off top

 

[filial_piety]

that refers to the Garden for everything that it hosts in NYC

but Knicks fans constantly to pretend that it refers to basketball ...they branded that shyt the same way the Cowboys annointed themselves "America's Team" and the press ran with it

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

nikkax saw Bill Kennedy acting like a thespian on that shot clock call

LIFE FEELS GOOD IN NEW YORK