Talking to Matthew Stucko of YES Network earlier this season, director and notable Knicks fan Spike Lee expressed some excitement about today’s Nets-Knicks game on Martin Luther King Day, expecting a competitive matchup.
He also noted that there’s “bad blood on both sides, with Kevin Garnett starting it,” admonishing the Nets forward for his role in exacerbating the conflict between the borough’s teams.
Garnett is hardly the first player to involve himself in the Nets-Knicks conflict, but he does have a history with Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony: the two once got into a scuffle after a Celtics-Knicks game. Anthony has since said that there’s no bad blood between the two.
