Knicks championship win caps a love story for couple who are bitter rivals in other sports
It’s love and basketball — but only if it’s the Knicks.A pair of high school sweethearts are bitter rivals in their loyalties to their favorite sports teams, but their unwavering support for the newest NBA champions is a true love story.The Knicks have been a throughline for Queens couple Danielle Kuchinskas and Alex Frawley’s romance, capped with seeing the dramatic, history-making Game 5 in San Antonio a full-circle moment.“It’s an unbelievable feeling.We’re over the moon.
This is what we’ve been waiting for for so long and it’s crazy how they’re the champions!” Kuchinskas, 35, told The Post.The husband-and-wife duo’s love for basketball and the Knicks was one of the first things that they bonded over when their romance sparked in 2007.The couple, both from Middle Village, were raised as Knicks fans and played the sport for their respective high schools.
Frawley played for Regis in Manhattan, while Kuchinskas played for Christ the King — the same alma mater as Knicks star Jose Alvarado.They also both boasted hoop-themed AIM screen names: Kuckinskas was DKlovesbball, and Frawley was littlebballdude20, a reference to retired Knicks star Allan Houston, who wore the number.The love for the Knicks was enough to carry them when they separated for their college years and pledged loyalties to their warring schools’ basketball teams, which they both maintain today.Frawley is a dedicated Georgetown follower, while Kuckinskas stands behind Villanova University, but they put their differences aside to watch the college games together — which fatefully allowed the couple to witness Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Mikal Bridges in action before their Knicks stardom.The fan fissure was the second for the couple, who were raised with contending baseball loyalties.Kuckinskas is a dedicated Mets fan, while Frawley inherited his love for the Yankees from his Bronx-born grandfather.
When asked if the opposing support ever got heated, Frawley, 36, a lawye...