Embarrassing Scene For Brooklyn Nets As Knicks Fans Overwhelm Barclays Center

New York is, has, and always will be a Knicks city. That was on full display during Tuesday’s crosstown matchup between the New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.

The Knicks stormed back in the fourth quarter to defeat the Nets, 108-103. But, the biggest story out of this game was the huge Knicks crowd advantage in Brooklyn.

It’s never good when opposing players are getting MVP chants in your own building, but that’s exactly what happened on Tuesday night when Knicks guard Jalen Brunson was serenaded with MVP chants.

And, that was the general theme of the night. It was absolutely a Knicks home game, despite being played in Brooklyn, which is not a good sign for the Nets franchise.

Believe it or not, the Nets have been in Brooklyn for twelve seasons, after spending 35 years across the river in New Jersey. That’s plenty of time to develop a fan base, especially since they’ve had some stars go through there. But, that’s not what’s happened, at all. The atmosphere is still bad, and it was like that even when they had the big three of Kevin Durant, James Harden, and Kyrie Irving.

This was as bad as I can ever remember it in Brooklyn in terms of a Knicks’ invasion into the Barclays Center, and people were taking note on Twitter.

Look and listen to this sequence, which gave the Knicks the lead with a minute left in the game, and see how loud the cheers are.

This isn’t even a Clippers-Lakers situation, where they share an arena. Manhattan and Brooklyn may as well be separate cities. Brooklyn should’ve developed some sort of fan base in the decade-plus they’ve been there. But, that’s just not the case.

There’s no doubt that New York is still a Knicks city, no matter how good or bad the two teams are.