The weekend will probably start a few hours early, the opening bell for happy hour maybe preceding the closing bell on Wall Street by a bit, because it will be a Friday night in Manhattan, one month into spring, and there is a big basketball game beckoning in the middle of the island, in the most famous gymnasium of all.
“It’s going to be a great place to play. It’s always been the best place to play in the league. It’s going to be unreal. I just know that it’s going to be an electric atmosphere, for sure.” “Yeah, it can be good or bad, depending on how you use it,” Randle said of the homecoming the Knicks are going to receive when they take the floor for the layup lines Friday night, and then once the game begins just past 8:30. “The crowd’s going to be on our side, it’s going to be a lot of fun. MSG’s going to be rocking. I’m pretty sure it’s going to be hard to talk. The floor’s going to be shaking, all that different type of stuff.