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Exorcising Demons with a Breen "Double Bang!"


These sorts of moments feel like they don't happen to us. 

Well, they happen VERY rarely - I'm talking Larry Johnson's 4-point play-rare. Yeah, it's been THAT long. 

But watching this New York Knicks team score eight points in less than thirty-five seconds, including a sequence that will forever live in my fandom, sits right with that LJ garden-rocking shot. 

I sat on my couch in absolute shock at what I just saw. 

"How the hell did they just win that game?!" 

It's the kind of moment this fanbase deserves. It's the moment that releases and exorcises some demons that haunt us from the trauma of experiences. 

Namely you, Reggie Miller. 

I loved it. And the icing on the cake was Mike Breen - Oh, Mike Breen, the loveable man with the most epic voice that has narrated so much of my basketball-loving fandom - with not one, but two signature "Bang!" calls. 

I'll never let this one down. Ever. 

I'm not sure where this team will wrap up the season. It's likely not at the finish line with the Larry O'Brien trophy, but whatever - I absolutely love this squad.  

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