BK dad Doug Berns turns Knicks game recaps into viral musical parodies: Its mind blowing

This Knicks fan is dropping bars after the buzzer.Brooklyn-based audio engineer and musician Doug Berns is making waves in the Knicks fandom this season with bizarre musical recaps of each game — which he writes, shoots and uploads with a lightning-speed turn-around of less than a day.“Knick fans are a family at the end of the day,” said Berns, 37, a lifelong fan who grew up on the Upper West Side and now lives in Prospect Lefferts Gardens with his wife and two daughters.“The emotional roller coaster of investing in this team is really, really intense.
My songs tell the stories of those roller coasters, I hope.”While Berns started the project with the goal of writing one original metal song inspired by a Knicks game, he found that musical parodies of ‘90s rock and hip hop tunes resonated deeply with audiences – and his videos have since drawn over 15,000 Instagram followers and millions of views since he began the series on Nov.13 after a win against the Philadelphia 76ers.“My wheelhouse is music that I grew up listening to, and a lot of my millennial contemporaries are Knick fans that grew up in the last golden age of Knicks basketball,” Berns told The Post.
“Most of [the parodies] are songs that swirl around in our emotional hearts and minds.”In the months since Berns launched the endeavor, he’s found fans in filmmaker Spike Lee, as well as Knicks players Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart — who showcased one of Berns’ songs on their podcast Roommates Show.“The Internet is so wild, I could never have conceived of this,” Berns said.“When [90s R&B song] ‘Return of the Mack’ came out and I’m 5 or 7 years old, the idea that I’d be able to parody it and have two Knicks players with a platform where they’re watching me perform and reacting to it, it’s mind blowing,” Berns said, referencing his Feb.
28 game parody.The Manhattan-born musician also plays in Cafe Wha? house bands in Greenwich Village, a jazz project with “Bo...