Knicks superfan Spike Lee appears to leave Game 5 early, miss Trae Young's final dagger
Spike Lee had seen enough. He didn’t want to stay and watch Hawks star Trae Young stomp all over the Knicks’ gravesite.
In Wednesday’s 103-89 win, Young poured in 36 points and dished out nine assists, closing out what had been a heated (but lopsided) series between New York and Atlanta. The writing was on the wall in the fourth quarter, as the Knicks simply couldn’t cut down the Hawks’ lead and give them a real challenge.
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So, Spike decided to bail. With a little more than three minutes left on the clock and New York trailing by 16 points, the Knicks’ biggest superfan walked down the closest Madison Square Garden tunnel.
“Oh, Spike’s leaving early,” TNT play-by-play announcer Marv Albert said.
“Come on, man. That’s a fair-weather fan right there,” said analyst Reggie Miller, who has a, uh, history with Lee. “If he’s supposed to be the No. 1 supporter of the Knicks, you gotta stay here and take it like the guys on the floor. Come on, man.”
