The ESPN analyst was confronted by a Knicks fan following New York's playoff series win over the Celtics on Friday night.
The Knicks routed the No. 2-seeded Celtics in a 119-81 blowout victory at Madison Square Garden, booking their spot in the Eastern Conference Finals, where they'll face the Indiana Pacers. After the big win, most of the Knicks' fanbase partied like it was 2000 (In the viral video, the Knicks fan filmed himself walking up to Windhorst on the street and asking him about New York's series win.
It was more or less a rhetorical question.Windhorst started to respond, but the fan immediately cut him off and fired off a string of obscenities.Though the Knicks fan was totally out of pocket with his obnoxious screaming, Windhorst took it all in stride and kept on walking. The longtime ESPN analyst even seemed to crack a wry smile as the fan was yelling at him and refused to do anything that might escalate the situation.despite star Jayson Tatum's injury. We'll see if Windy has anything new to say during this week's hoops media discourse.Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. Outside of work, she has dreams of running her own sporty dive bar.
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