Ben Stiller, lifelong Knicks fan, understood the gravity of the New York team’s historic Game 4 win more than almost anyone else in the Garden on Wednesday night (June 10). For decades, he’s been a courtside fixture, and the love is a deeply rooted family affair, as the Severance director previously attended games alongside his late father, Jerry Stiller.
As such, we should probably listen when he credits Wu-Tang Clan’s halftime performance as the dividing line between the decidedly dire situation of the first two quarters of Wednesday’s game and the explosive, history-making comeback the Mike Brown-led team pulled together in the back half.
“The start of the comeback,” Stiller, who’s reportedly working on a Knicks-featuring documentary for HBO, said when sharing a clip of the Staten Island collective’s performance, which included a Knicks-ified rendition of “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing to F’ Wit” and more.
Indeed, it’s undeniable that the Knicks came roaring back after the Wu-Tang set, ultimately clinching the win thanks in large part to a legend-making move from OG Anunoby.
“It’s unbelievable,” Knicks coach Mike Brown later said to reporters. “The tip, how he had to control it and tip it in. Like I said, that has to be the most iconic shot in the history of New York basketball. … Jalen [Brunson] played the whole half, OG didn’t, but we rode those guys and they did a fantastic job of trying to play both ends of the floor and trying to play fast while trying to give it to us defensively.”
With this momentum, and with the whole of New York behind them, odds are good that the Knicks will bag the chip, their first in 53 years, come Game 5 on Saturday.
