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Kyrie Irving’s bird-flipping repartee Sunday with the followers at TD Backyard actually wasn’t the primary instance, but it surely marks the newest in a protracted line of memorable moments within the feisty sports activities rivalry between New York and Boston.
From the Curse of the Bambino to the Pink Sox’s 0-3 comeback within the 2004 ALCS, from Invoice Belichick resigning because the HC of the NYJ and defecting to New England to Eli and the Giants ending the Patriots’ good season, from Bobby Orr beating the Rangers to Bobby Nystrom and Clark Gillies beating up the Bruins, from “will get by Buckner” to the Knicks’ 1973 “Easter Resurrection” to Patrick Ewing’s buzzer-beater to Sport 1 of this 12 months’s Nets-Celtics sequence, all of New York’s groups in these sports activities have skilled firsthand the age-old rivalry between the 2 cities.
Irving’s antagonistic response to the Beantown denizens possible will ratchet up the vitriol for Wednesday’s Sport 2. It additionally solely will add to the strife and competition between sports activities followers in every city, with an opportunity for Nets-Celtics to maneuver up in our all-time top-10 snapshot of Boston-New York moments:
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