Pablo Torre

What was it like to be there in person last night?

We're talking on Tuesday morning.

Last night was Game 3.

What did it feel like?

There was a lot happening last night.

The thing that I kept on hearing from fans, from friends, and of course, I have a particular vantage point on this, but they kept on saying, we are most excited to see Jeremy Lin back in this building.

The whole thing about this Knicks team that I'm forced back into contemplating is you.

Because the garden hasn't sounded like this since you were playing in it.

Well, look, the whole thing of what the potential of the Garden is and how this team, obviously, making a Finals run, is meeting that possibility.

It was proven...

by you just the idea of like this could be the greatest building in sports in my lifetime that's that's the thing that I felt and again I've been I've been covering you for way too long but but that was the premise and so watching this team for you I mean it's got to be weird kind of just surreal on a bunch of levels

What have you been learning as you watch this team, but also think about what watching you must have felt like?

Because I was there.

I was at the Garden when you dropped 38 on Kobe and the Lakers.

I was covering you for Sports Illustrated throughout that whole run.

What are you realizing about what that must have been like 14 years ago?

It's the feeling of...

Yeah.

Watching like Karl-Anthony Towns, watching Jalen Brunson, watching these guys, Mikael Bridges, watching them get to feel like they're levitating.

I mean, the thing about the garden, the thing that people need to appreciate, on some level, yes, I'm born and raised in New York.