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CLEVELAND \u2014 It really didn\u2019t matter where you were; by 10:30 or so, you were connected, all across the city, all across the vast kinetic network known as Knicks Nation. It didn\u2019t matter the area code, the ZIP code, the time zone. At Radio City Music Hall, the celebration had been going on for two solid hours before the clock at the bottom of the massive screen finally read 0:00.<\/p>\n

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Before the glorious numbers flanking it read \u201c130\u201d to the left, \u201c93\u201d to the right.<\/p>\n

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At the Henry Street Ale House in Brooklyn Heights, they decided to open just for the game, just for the regulars. They let the cooks stay home and just kept serving beer after beer to the giddy customers who filled the bar with a foundation-rattling roar at game\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

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Joe Walsh, the bartender, marveled at it all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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