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Midtown turned into a sea of blue and orange Friday night as thousands of “exhilarated” Knicks fans flooded the streets outside Madison Square Garden after their hometown team won Game 2 of the NBA Finals.As the final buzzer sounded nearly 2,000 miles away in San Antonio, Knicks nation went bonkers back in the Big Apple with their team just two wins away from its first championship in 53 years. Chants of “Go New York, go New York, go New York, go!” and “Knicks in four!” echoed down Seventh Avenue and drivers could be heard honking their horns in their own show of support one block away.\The party kicked off hours earlier as diehards secured spots at a watch party outside the World’s Most Famous Arena more than four hours before the 8:42 p.m.tipoff.
“I feel exhilarated,” said Lester Alexander, who was equipped with a Knicks flag attached to a broomstick.“I can’t be happier.As a New Yorker, nothing could ruin my day now, my week, my month, my summer,” the 27-year-old, who goes by “Les,” told The Post.
Alexander, a Harlem native, already had grand plans for a possible Knicks title.“I’m gonna propose to the most beautiful woman I’ll meet that night.
‘Cause right now I’m single.And if I don’t find nobody I’ll just marry the game,” he declared.
Pals Surgio Urnia, 35 and Ken Lopez, 50, also joined in on the festivities outside the Garden.“The thing that I love about the watch party is the camaraderie between the New York culture,” said Urnia, a Brooklyn resident.
“It’s beautiful.It brings it back.
It’s a feeling I haven’t felt in this city in a very long time.”When asked how he would celebrate the Knicks winning the championship, he had a blunt response: “I’m quitting my job.”But that wouldn’t be all for Urnia.“I’m going to the parade.
I am gonna get a new girlfriend.I’m gonna have a brand new life,” he insisted.
Lopez was much more modest.“I’m gonna take a home week off work,” he sai...