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Why We All Want the Same Things
I’m not the only bandwagon fan to root for the Knicks only once it got fun. (Illustration by The Free Press; photo by Angelina Katsanis via Getty Images)
Luke Burgis on the one theory that explains Knicks fans, froyo lines, and maybe even Anthropic. Plus: I meet the AI millionaires.
By Suzy Weiss
06.19.26 — Second Thought
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Last weekend, New Yorkers flooded the streets after the Knicks won the NBA championship for the first time in 53 years. Many die-hard fans in New York and those in the extended New York diaspora, tears in their eyes, said and wrote that they felt like they’d waited their entire lives for this moment.

And I was celebrating right alongside them. After bein…

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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