You gotta love a mayor who fights the power!
In a statement released right before tip-off, Madison Square Garden said that it “declined to use” the permit granted by the city, saying it would be unfair to “tens of thousands of people” who could not be there.
Owner James Dolan has been known to employ intense security measures of his own at the Garden. According to reporting from multiple outlets, Madison Square Garden has famously employed facial-recognition technology to ban Dolan’s enemies. Nice guy!
Oh, and he smeared Mamdani as “not a Knicks fan.”
They have reportedly cut back on Mamdani attacks on Fox News — because their viewers gave him such high approval ratings.
Oh, and in case you missed it: Knicks won by one point after being down by 29!