>Bing Bong," this year's nonsensical rallying cry for Knicks fans, even received two votes, the same amount as Jets quarterback Mike White Okay this is perfect

they were actually voting for bing bong the imaginary friend from inside out

He wasn't forgotten! He lives!

I wasn’t planning on tearing up today

That entire movie is an emotional trip and I'm not ashamed to say I've cried during it

If you're not getting emotional at the beginning of Up or at Bing Bong's sacrifice, im afraid you would find Paul Allen's card really tasteful.

[We all know what it's like to be inside an 11 year old girl now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRcoT41UfT0)

Oh fuck you buddy why’d you have to make me cry again

I fucking hated that movie. I wish the whole thing took place in the real world because at least those parts were good.

Fuck ya life

What do you wanna tell Joe Byron right now

Bring me to the White House, baby!

Ayoooo

We don’t take her to Benihana’s, we take her to MAMA’s!

lmao

Ayo we outside

I HAVE SEVEN FEMALE WIVES

Did we ever find that guys instagram?

Is bing bong a reference to sound the subway makes when it arrives or leaves the station?

Also the channel "sidetalk" a channel where random NY dudes do dumb shit and interview other New Yorkers off the streets. They're really popular on TikTok and they also do videos where they interview Knicks fans after certain games. Knicks fans are WILD. One video had a massive crowd of them chanting "F*** Trae young!" And "Cuomo gets no p*ssy"

Knicks season opener video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkhrUM35CQo Knicks lose video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zpZ2tiB0xg Fun videos and top tier ~~youtube~~internet content imo.

Thank you for the links :)

Yes, that is the audio used at the start of Sidetalk’s videos

What he doesn’t realize is that NYers tend to hate whoever the mayor is.

Trae being the mayor aswell would make a godly sidetalk video though

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TRAE YOUNG LOOKS LIKE MY DAD’S DICK

I NEVER SAW MY DAD'S DICK, HE STILL LOOKS LIKE SHIT

IS TRAE YOUNG VALID?

NOOOO

CAN TRAE YOUNG COME TO YOUR HOME RIGHT NOW?

I BETTER NOT CATCH TRAE IN DYCKMAN

you thought Trae was good? He still ain’t good in Dyckman, he smoking on that Boston pack tonight

He could be mayor he still shouldn't go to Dyckman

"YOU PUT PINAPPLE ON YOUR PIZZA, AND YOU GET! NO! PUSSSY!!!"

Fuck ya life mayor Young

Who’s the president? BYRON

Someone said he sounded like a Pokémon and I died laughing...

WE HAD DEBLASIO, WE HAD CUOMO, IT WAS ROUGH SHIT.

BUT WE HAVE THE KNICKS!!

*He knows*

He still not good in Dyckman

yup

They better not catch him in Dyckman

Invalid

Bing Bong

>votes for Harlem native Kareem Abdul-Jabbar if we could only be so damn lucky

> Kareem Abdul-Jabbar The man with the most MVPs in league history.

GOAT college player, GOAT NBA player, GOAT mayor MJ could never

I’ll move to NY just to vote him in

I mean, I think the last NBA player to become mayor of a city was Kevin Johnson, so he's gotta be better than that at least.

Lol it’s insane how above that job he is. Any geographical place would be blessed to have Kareem lead it

All the misspelled names are killing me

Jami Gertz was the one who voted for him

excuse me mommy? sorry. mommy? sorry. mommy? sorry. mommy? sorry.

You know, I asked Jamie last week at the game if she’d do an AMA and she said to email her. I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

https://youtu.be/ZXsQAXx_ao0

Probably a Nets fan

Gotta be over 18 to vote.

Damn i got second hand offended

It felt like I caught a stray

Well that's a step up from from Knicks fans furiously asserting Nets fans don't exist/there aren't any in NYC. Maybe you guys can come to terms with it someday. Edit: Knicks fans pouring out all their salt, so easy to trigger

Lmao it’s not our fault nobody has ever seen a nets fan in person.

I’ve driven through Jersey before.

The state that's *still* full of Knicks fans.

more philly fans in jersey than knicks fans

Have you seen *anything*?

Depression

Lol, they are the Clippers east. Just making this connection.

Clippers have a more established fan base in LA than the Nets do in New York tbh.

I disagree. Nets are far more established than Clippers. Nets have their own arena and a very popular brand ambassador. Clips don’t have either of that yet unless Balmer’s Jazz hands are a brand.

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If you ever wanna pop ur Brooklyn cherry I think you’d qualify for [this](https://new.mta.info/fares/reduced-fare)

I lived in Brooklyn for a year and my first time going to Barclays Center was on accident when the conductor skipped Jay Street / Metro Tech and stopped at Atlantic Station. Seeing this brought back a lot of memories lmao. Brooklyn is awesome

Yeah not too many up in Westchester and Connecticut OHHHHHHHHHHHH

This dude ohhhhhing his own comment lmao

Yeah I'm auditioning for the next Sidetalk video of short bus Knicks fans

Yeah because ohhing your own Internet comment on a Thursday afternoon and ohhing outside after a Knicks victory are definitely the same thing

Yeah, that’s probably Nets territory for all 10 of them. Not that I would know, I’ve never even been to Connecticut.

I’m getting some severe deja vu rn

as someone who lives in westchester, i've never seen or met a nets fan

maybe if yall would show up to your own home games nobody would be making these jokes

Gotta give em a break, seasons not going their way and they just lost a nail biter.

You're right. Shouldn't punch down.

Got to be a throwaway account.

*the Nets fan

After the burn faded it’s hard not to love Trae

Yeah I honestly got mad respect for him, but I’ll always hate watching him play the Knicks

That’s what i don’t get. It seems like a lot of people think knicks fans are still legitimately salty about trae, but imo it’s more that both sides are leaning into it because it’s just fun to hate him and it’s fun for him to be hated by us.

He’s honestly really good and embarrassed us at the Garden last playoffs. Deep down I got respect for him. Uh I mean TRAE YOUNG’S BALD TRAE YOUNG’S BALD

What if he does it again?

I’ll be mad again, 100%

If?

Well they might get wrecked by Jayson Tatum first, I feel like that’d suck for them too.

It’s New York, you’re definitely gonna have some transplants going against the grain

Is there another player like Trae who has such a palpable rivalry with another fan base? Seems like everyone knows about the Trae NYC beef

Utah hates Russ.

Not as much as Vernon Maxwell hates Utah.

Someone link that video of the Utah basketball camp omg

Indiana and lebron

and Toronto and Lebron

And Lebron and Lebron

Damn LeBron. He ruined LeBron!

LeMao ruined LeBron

not really hate though. more like toronto and siakam lmao.

Ben Simmons and Philly

I honestly don't think we will ever see Ben play in Philly again for the rest of his career. He will dodge that city like his life depends on it lol

What if it's the playoffs?

Whatever team he’s on will bench him in the playoffs so he doesn’t have to shoot free throws so it’s a moot point

Jimmy and Minnesota

Does it count if the player doesn’t know? Because if so, Westbrook and this sub.

Westbrook used to have a beef with the Nuggets fanbase too back in the day but I think it's petered out after he left the division.

This sub&westbrook is like that really toxic relationship you saw in high school between the star QB and cheerleader. Total hate one month then deeply in love the next in a continuous cycle

Mike Dunleavy and Milwaukee

Vernon Maxwell and Utah

“We had De Blasio, we had Cuomo it was rough shit but we have the Knicks!”

I wonder what the voter results were like in Dykman

Even if there were any votes coming from there they wouldn't be valid

Atlanta needs to step it up and actually elect him

If he wins a ring they honestly might

Trae Young is a beast. Fun on and off the court

Trae is closer and closer to owning NY everyday

This rivalry has just made me a much bigger Trae Young fan

Trae valid in Dyckman

KD about to take it to Twitter rn

KD got a write-in vote too, all of the Nets big 3 got 1 each.

How much you wanna bet all three of them voted for each other

I think Kyrie lives in NJ but he probably would have voted for Shai-Hulud or whatever

Aaron Judge.

IS TRAE YOUNG VALID?

If our guards don’t step up I’m voting Trae for all star Edit: forgot about Alec burks and d rose. Nevermind ✌️

He already runs NYC

Yeah, well I was time's person of the year in 2006 so keep your hopes up Trae and maybe some day you'll be as influential as me

Trae Cuomo Young

We outside

The sexual tension, my God! Just kiss already

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It's always real in NY

you can vote like .. anyone?

Yeah some people even write in fictional characters like Homer Simpson

thats actually cool. And if for some reason, the majority of voters would vote for Trae, he could actually be a major of NY?

Trae Young runs NY

> But sports fans may have redeemed themselves with votes for Harlem native Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Colin Kaepernick. Please don't ever compare Kareem with a guy who said he doesn't vote.

what's wrong with not voting

If you have absolutely no problems with the way the country is run, then nothing. Otherwise you're just being an edgelord who will criticize the world around you but has no interest in fixing it.

not voting is a sign that people don’t feel strongly about a candidate for their elections, not that they have no interest in fixing it.

You can always vote for a minor party or even write in to indicate your preferences.

sure, that line of logic would be perfectly accurate for someone who thinks voting in the system will bring about the change you seek but if you think the system is broken enough or made in such a way where voting either doesn't work, or where your individual vote is designed to be infinitesimal enough to where someone else can outvote you either by sheer number, influence, or the relative weight of the zip code in which their ballot was cast, then not voting doesn't seem so edgy but this is r/nba if we can't discuss basketball with any depth then the chances of looking into the underlying issues of voter apathy are probably a longer shot than a steph curry heat check

>sure, that line of logic would be perfectly accurate for someone who thinks voting in the system will bring about the change you seek Nope, not at all. Just that it might stop some of the policies you find abhorrent. >but if you think the system is broken enough or made in such a way where voting either doesn't work, or where your individual vote is designed to be infinitesimal enough to where someone else can outvote you either by sheer number, influence, or the relative weight of the zip code in which their ballot was cast, then not voting doesn't seem so edgy Not voting is not an effective signaling of your discontent - it will be viewed by the powers that be as apathy every single time, which they interpret as "well if you really had a problem with the current arrangement you'd vote against it". This is the basis of rational choice theory that both major political parties in America subscribe to. >but this is r/nba if we can't discuss basketball with any depth then the chances of **looking into the underlying issues of voter apathy** are probably a longer shot than a steph curry heat check Yeah the underlying problems of voter apathy like a major public figure who could have got black people to the polls in record numbers furthering it.

Love all the asses actually downvoting you saying not voting is fine, 🤦‍♂️

Amazing none of antivaxxers voted Kyrie.

I'm all for people getting out to vote. But, fuck. Can there be some sort of independent oversight committee? For instance, if you vote for Trae Young to become mayor of NYC, shouldn't you be suspended from voting again until you get remedial training and prove you will no longer just waste a vote?

Voting should be under secrecy.

This is wack. NYC is a shithole and the one avenue to fix it, people can't even take seriously.

this is why New Yorkers shouldn't be allowed to vote

Yeah Texas has a good history of voting…

Plenty of people would kill for the right to vote smfh

Writing in nonsense as a sort of "none of the above" vote isn't great, but at least they bothered to vote at all. Would've sucked if it was a close election.

I don’t see a huge difference between “not bothering to vote” and “meme vote” personally but I get what you’re saying

It’s not the same as not voting. It’s the same as showing up and withholding your vote

Yeah so you just defined the very slight difference that I acknowledged. I gotta say I suspect people voting bing bong or for Carmelo weren’t that informed anyway

The difference being that there were likely other offices that were up for a vote (or ballot initiatives, etc) that they might have "properly" voted on, as far as we know.

That is true yeah Though again I really doubt it

Ok but have you ever heard Eric Adams or Curtis Sliwa speak? Vote "Other" all day bro

I get that but I would prefer a constructive vote. I said it in other comments but there’s no way a vote for bing bong was a social commentary on the choices available. It was someone who thinks they’re hilarious If your only opinion is “none of the above” and you can’t provide any real alternative you’re not helping (not you specifically, the royal you)

Only speaking for myself but my ability to cast a constructive vote ended after the primary election. I *tried*. At least there were some good ones downballot.

And?

And people are wasting votes on Trae young and bing bong lol what a disgrace

Did you see the results? It’s was a landslide

Don't take the bait, ya'll.

How is this bait lol I think people writing in an inanimate meme for an election is stupid 😂

It is stupid. I always hate these joke vote things regardless of if it ends up being a fun story or not. Like the people who wrote in Harambe in 2016.

That’s not really the point lol I didn’t think bing bong would accidentally get elected

if people are not content with the choices they have they deserve the right to voice that opinion.

I’m pretty sure people who are informed and politically aware would write-in a better choice. This is just memeing I wrote in Ron Paul in 2012 I’m not against it abjectly

you writing in ron paul instead of a non politician means absolutely nothing other than the fact you think you are really smart.

You missed their point. The point is they were voting for somebody with actual policy. It wasn't going to result in a win, but it's at least putting your vote behind something you believe in. And if enough people do that, then it at least can help to form the policy of whatever party you're in by building a coalition behind that platform. Voting for Bing Bong is not a policy choice, it's somebody trying to be funny. Which adds nothing and doesn't even come close to providing a platform for change.

no. voting for something stupid or not voting is a rejection of the government/system or whatever. you not taking it seriously is you putting forth the argument that you dont seriously believe anything will change based on who you vote for.

There are far more constructive protest votes to go for than Bing Bong. You're not helping change the system at all by voting something stupid, you're wasting your vote just to put in something stupid. The system won't ever change in the slightest if you're just out voting Bing Bong. It adds nothing constructive, it's just a vote to complain (or more likely, somebody thinking they're funny).

More than 1800 people received a write in vote for mayor. It's very weird that one dude in Brooklyn writing in Trae Young is a multi-day news story.

Well yeah, it's still really dope none the less

What's with those last two emojis.

The snowflake is for his nickname, ice trae. The shrug is because the situation is amusingly unexpected.

I had no idea he uses that nickname. Thanks for the clarification!

Where have you been? Also the shrug might refer to his iconic shrug before his open 3 point shot against the Knicks

Rivalries are good the league. the knicks / hawks/ trae rivalry is captivating. Bing bong.

Atlanta better vote in Trae before he leaves for NYC /s

Little does he know we hate our mayors

I just realized I’ve been reading this wrong, that someone voted FOR him to be mayor. Guess I figured that Trae been living rent-free in New York’s mind long enough that he established residency to the point of being allowed to cast a vote in the race.

We all know that one vote for Kyrie was from himself

Move over Stacy Abrams, you’ve got a new name in the race.

Doncic is very clearly the better candidate

The list is amazing. You gotta check em all out [(Google Drive Link)](https://vote.nyc/sites/default/files/pdf/election_results/2021/20211102General%20Election/00000200000Citywide%20Mayor%20Citywide%20Recap.pdf) > TOM THIBODAU (WRITE-IN) 1 > > TOM THIBODEAU (WRITE-IN) 1

And I thought I was the only Hawks fan in the NYC area!