Fat Joe Comes To Knicks’ Defense After Playoffs Exit
Fat Joe is standing by his beloved New York Knicks regardless of their devastating loss to the Indiana Pacers within the NBA Playoffs semifinals.
The Knicks misplaced to the Pacers by 21 factors in recreation seven of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Sunday (May 19) on their residence turf at Madison Square Garden. Though they’ve been eradicated from the 2024 Playoffs, Joey Crack is proud that his group made it that far.
“I’m proud of my team. So proud of them. Unfortunately, you gotta lose to win,” he stated on Instagram Live shortly after the sport. “Like we saw with OKC and we saw with all these other young teams, for some reason, they gotta lose to get that experience — to get that final instinct so they could win. ”
After shouting out the Pacers for his or her win, he went on to elucidate why Knicks followers had been so obsessed with this season.
“When you lose 29 years — 29 years in a row! 29 years since the last game 7 — everyone wants to say the Knicks fans are exaggerated, we go too crazy. Nah, we been loyal fans. The arena been sold out for 29 years. A lot of y’all so-called real fans from other teams, y’all arenas be empty and you only come around when they winning at the end. Not Madison Square Garden! Sold out for 29 years.”
He then detailed the a number of accidents Knicks gamers suffered over the sequence, which he feels in the end ended their season.
“We ain’t got nothing to be sad about, we got nothing to be upset about,” he concluded. “We overachievers. I wanna salute the coach, I wanna salute the players, I wanna salute the fans. Hell of a run this year. We’ll be back next year.”
The Knicks’ season additionally introduced Fat Joe and former enemy 50 Cent nearer.
Their bitter feud between the 2 exploded within the mid 2000s with diss songs like “Piggy Bank” and “My FoFo,” leading to a confrontation on the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards that almost turned bodily. Both titans, nevertheless, have buried the hatchet since then and seem to have even develop into pals in recent times.
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Last yr, the Terror Squad boss gave Fif his flowers by crowning Get Rich or Die Tryin’ “one of the greatest albums of all time.”
Earlier this month, the previous foes had been seen sitting collectively courtside at Madison Square Garden because the Knicks took a 1–0 lead over the Indiana Pacers within the Eastern Conference semifinals. After the thrilling 121–177 win, the G-Unit normal and his peer had been seen dapping one another and sharing amusing as the whole area reveled within the victory.
Joey Crack posted a video of the second on Instagram and wrote: “One down Let’s gooooooooo.”
The “Lean Back” rapper additionally shared one other clip of Knicks star Josh Hart — who registered 24 factors, 13 rebounds and eight assists in a tireless 48-minute efficiency — embracing him and the Queens MC after the buzzer.
While the 2 rappers’ courtside bonding will now be on pause, they absolutely have the forthcoming NBA season to stay up for.
