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BOSTON — Pumped Knicks fans flooded into enemy territory ahead of New York’s Game 5 matchup against the Boston Celtics that could send them to the Eastern Conference Finals.
“Knicks in five, Knicks in five,” scores of orange-and-blue clad diehards chanted outside TD Garden in Beantown.
“All we can do as a Knicks fan is hope,” Queens resident Allen Edwards, 32, told The Post. “We’ve suffered for so long, we can just hope.”
Big Apple mayoral candidate Michael Blake made the trek to New England along with 20 buddies.
“It’s been so long of Knicks misery we gotta celebrate a day like today,” he said.
Another member of the Knickerbocker faithful took a Greyhound bus to Boston early Wednesday for the potentially series-clinching game.
“It’s $600 cheaper to get here even with the bus. The Garden is a luxury,” George Quni, 23, said, referring to Madison Square Garden where the Knicks play their home games.
The Knicks reached this stage of the postseason last year, but lost in Game 7 to the Indiana Pacers.
Basketball lovers in the Big Apple haven’t seen the Knicks in the NBA Finals since the 1999 season, and the team hasn’t won a championship since the early 1970s.
Edwards said Knicks fans can relate to Boston sports fanatics because of the long World Series title drought the Red Sox dealt with.
“They suffer with the Red Sox,” he said. “We suffer with The Knicks.”
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