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Fans of the Knicks and Arsenal have long experienced disappointment. They finally have reasons to cheer.<\/strong><\/p>

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Marc Jean celebrates with Knicks fans at FancyFree. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 He was still a block away, but already he could see it in the distance, a swarm of red jerseys surrounding his sports bar.<\/p>\n

Marc Jean, a lifelong New York Knicks fan, watches every game at FancyFree, an airy Brooklyn bar on a bustling corner a few blocks from Barclays Center, home, mostly, to the WNBA\u2019s Liberty. Jean is 40, which means for most of his life, seats at a Knicks bar have not been hard to come by. But Tuesday was Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Knicks \u2014 the Knicks! \u2014 were the favorites to win the Eastern Conference Finals. All over the city, the sidewalks were dotted with orange and blue hats, their occupants greeting one another with \u201cLet\u2019s go Knicks!\u201d Their team had won seven straight games by an average of 25 points, looking perhaps good enough to bring home the team\u2019s first title since 1973.<\/p>\n

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Howard Grandison, left, and Marc Jean. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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A handmade necklace in Knicks colors. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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Jason Andrew shows off Arsenal pins on his hat. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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Arsenal fans and Knicks fans celebrate on Tuesday. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Jean had been coming to FancyFree long enough to remember when only a few die-hards would show up, before it became famous as the bar where Spike Lee and Mayor Zohran Mamdani watch their favorite teams. As Jean rode the subway over, leaving his job in Queens in time to arrive two hours before tip-off, Lee was already in the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt went from three, four people to packed wall to wall,\u201d Jean said, as he strolled up to a scene that resembled a block party. \u201cLast two years, you gotta be here two hours early.\u201d<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing: FancyFree is also an Arsenal bar. So as Jean and other Knicks fans arrived, drenched in blue and orange, they found the bar inundated with red.<\/p>\n

A team-specific sports bar rides the waves of that team\u2019s prospects, losing business in losing seasons and winning it in successful ones. But for the sports-maddest among us, watching alongside like-minded supporters offers an immersive escape into a shared passion, a magical setting where strangers spiritually and literally lock arms on a nerve-racking journey of squeezed shoulders, the highest fives and hugs free of inhibition.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal fans celebrate at FancyFree. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

After wins, fans savor a unifying joy, a party at its climax. After losses, they sulk together, safe from rivals\u2019 taunts and the judgment of those who don\u2019t understand. Fans of the Knicks and Arsenal, and as a result, FancyFree, have long known the agonies better than the ecstasies. But over the last four years, as the Knicks and Arsenal simultaneously returned to contention, the two proud fan bases have cycled through FancyFree like shiftworkers clocking in for duty, bonded by the scars of devastatingly improbable defeats.<\/p>\n

As Jean arrived on Tuesday, Arsenal had won the Premier League championship after a 22-year drought, and its fans were not even two hours into their celebration. He slapped hands with an Arsenal fan on the front patio, Howard Grandison, a filmmaker and copywriter who has lived in Brooklyn for 25 years and co-founded the local Arsenal fan club.<\/p>\n

\u201cShift change,\u201d Jean said. \u201cWhere the seats?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll make another announcement,\u201d Grandison said apologetically. \u201cNobody wants to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As the Knicks and Arsenal have returned to contention in recent years, the two fan bases have cycled through FancyFree like shiftworkers clocking in for duty. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Before it was a hybrid Knicks-Arsenal-city-hall bar, FancyFree was an Irish Pub with decent wings called Mullane\u2019s. \u201cAnd before that it was a bodega,\u201d Dre Washington, a 55-year-old Knicks fan, said as he waited for the Arsenal fans to depart.<\/p>\n

Washington grew up here in the \u201870s and \u201880s, when crime rates were soaring across the city, and the neighborhood, Fort Greene, drew few outsiders, a victim of racist housing policies and systematic disinvestment. \u201cNobody wanted to live here,\u201d said Tracy Williams, another Knicks fan from Fort Greene.<\/p>\n

That was already changing by the time the Barclays Center opened in 2012. Home to the borough\u2019s biggest subway stop and shopping district, Fort Greene turned into a cultural and commercial hub. An independent bookstore sprouted up not far from Mullane\u2019s, not to mention the railway-themed Thai spot.<\/p>\n

Early in the pandemic, the owner of Mullane\u2019s moved to Florida and sold the property to Jason Burelle and Danny de la Huerta, who owned a cocktail bar in the neighborhood. They envisioned it as a local sports bar that \u201cmade the space feel like Brooklyn,\u201d de la Huerta said. \u201cLike if there was a Brooklyn Pub in another country, how that would look.\u201d<\/p>\n

They changed the name, added a projector screen and made a point to build connections with \u201cregulars who had been coming every day for 20 years,\u201d de la Huerta said, and who show up no matter who\u2019s playing. \u201cThey\u2019re the heart and soul of this place.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bar happened to sit next door to Spike Lee\u2019s studio, and Burrelle used to work as a copywriter for Lee\u2019s advertising agency. So Lee started coming in, sometimes joining the regulars for Knicks games. Jean remembers being starstruck the first time the director sidled up next to him for a drink. But once the game tipped off, and Lee gesticulated \u201cjust like he does on TV\u201d sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden, the gap between them closed into a tangle of shared anxieties, just two guys talking hoops.<\/p>\n

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Film director Spike Lee poses in front of his office. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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Spike Lee shows off Knicks championship rings. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Jean\u2019s parents, immigrants from Haiti, were soccer fans, but basketball was all around him growing up in Brooklyn in the \u201890s, the sport he played and watched with friends. It helped that those Knicks were led then by Jamaican superstar Patrick Ewing. \u201cCaribbean like me,\u201d Jean said. He fell hard.<\/p>\n

Those Knicks thrilled the city with playoff runs that kept ending in disappointment, even devastation. And those were the good times. Then came the \u201cdark years when we couldn\u2019t beat anybody,\u201d Jean said. Nine straight losing seasons in the 2000s, then seven straight in the late 2010s. At the sports bar closest to his apartment in Flatbush, he found himself outnumbered by fans of other teams, \u201cbegging them to put the Knicks game on.\u201d So he sought refuge elsewhere.<\/p>

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Among the regulars he met at FancyFree was Grandison, who came with his recreation soccer teammates. They were Arsenal fans, mostly, who had pledged allegiance in the late \u201890s, when the team fielded more Black players than other top European clubs, and Black stars Ian Wright, Patrick Viera, and Thierry Henry led the team to three Premier League titles in seven years. Growing up in Delaware, Grandison remembers being the only Black kid on the pitch, and when he started researching about Black pro soccer players around the world, his inquiries led him to Arsenal, he said. \u201cI was sold.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cArsenal was the team you saw yourself as,\u201d said Jason Andrew, 40, who was born in Brooklyn to Nigerian immigrants.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal fans celebrate at FancyFree. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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Arsenal secured its first Premier League title in 22 years. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

They asked Burrelle, an Arsenal fan himself, if the bar could open early for Arsenal\u2019s weekend morning games, promising to bring in a crowd of at least a dozen. They dubbed their fan club Brooklyn Invincibles, after the nickname for the undefeated 2004 championship team, the last Arsenal squad to win a Premier League title. The years after that brought stretches of agonizing close calls and exasperating mediocrity, but the team surged back into contention in 2022, finishing runner-up three straight years and electrifying a fan base starved for excitement.<\/p>\n

Word spread. Fans from across the city, and visitors from around the world, lined up before kickoff on cold winter dawns, camping out with coffee and bagels from a shop next door. Lee, who said he became an Arsenal fan when he befriended Henry at a video shoot, started showing up for nearly every game, perched at the same corner table, sometimes with his son. Mamdani, a lifelong Arsenal fan who has been coming to FancyFree since at least 2024, sometimes with his wife, now gets the table next to Lee.<\/p>\n

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Fort Greene has become a cultural and commercial hub in Brooklyn. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Their reserved tables stand out as the only unoccupied pocket of a bar that fills up long before the game starts. The actor Daniel Kaluuya once came for a game. Burrelle said that Idris Elba shouted out the bar in a podcast interview. When Lee or Mamdani march in through a side door, usually a few minutes before kickoff, the crowd parts respectfully, extending hands for high-fives, discreetly snapping photos as the place hushes into a giddy buzz. On Mamdani\u2019s recent visits, his fellow Arsenal fans have serenaded him with a special song, howling his name to the tune of a White Stripes hit.<\/p>\n

Neither Lee nor Mamdani was at the bar on Monday, when Arsenal won its penultimate game of a tense season. (Lee was in London watching the game in person.) On Tuesday, Arsenal wasn\u2019t playing but could secure the championship if second-place Manchester City lost. Lee, back in town, watched from his usual spot, decked out in Knicks gear. As Manchester City fell behind, more Arsenal fans trickled in, and after the final whistle blew, more kept streaming in to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Lee headed out to catch a car to Manhattan for the Knicks game. Andrew tried to usher the festivities outside before \u201cthe shift change, when old New York starts coming in,\u201d though the effort seemed futile, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to tell people to stop partying.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Knicks fan and an Arsenal fan embrace at FancyFree. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

An hour before tip-off, Andy Walker, a 71-year-old retired pro basketball player from Queens, hovered by the door, scanning for space. He lived nearby and often walked past on the way back from Sunday church, noticing the Arsenal fans \u201cgoing crazy.\u201d He loved the energy they brought to the neighborhood, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now it\u2019s time for them to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the first 90-degree day of the year; inside, the Arsenal fans sang their chants on repeat, slick with sweat below ceiling fans spinning at full speed. The floor was sticky, from drinks spilled in the celebratory mayhem; the water cooler was empty. Knicks fans clustered in a corner near the door as an unmoving storm of revelry raged on, blocking every conceivable path to the cold drinks. The televisions had switched to basketball, but FancyFree was not ready for its set change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t deal with all this singing before I\u2019ve even had a drink,\u201d a woman said to Jean.<\/p>\n

\u201cY\u2019all got to get the f— up out of here,\u201d another Knicks fan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not mad at it, I\u2019d do the same thing,\u201d another said, \u201cbut take it to the streets!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust wait till eight o\u2019clock,\u201d Jean said then, pleading for patience. \u201cListen, if the Knicks won the championship, we\u2019re gonna be a hundred times worse, so I\u2019ll give them some grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nobody has watched more Knicks games at FancyFree than Jean, usually from the same stool at the end of the bar, too superstitious to change. So people listened, and the Arsenal fans proved him right, migrating out in time for tip-off. Jean and his crew took their spots at the bar counter. Slowly, the space transformed, Arsenal songs fading into \u201cLet\u2019s go Knicks\u201d chants. More than a few fans in Arsenal jerseys donned Knicks hats, including Grandison, who got a round of drinks for Jean and another Knicks regular.<\/p>\n

\u201cHoward, I gotta talk to your Arsenal people,\u201d Jean said. \u201cAlmost got ugly in here!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marc Jean watches Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Soon it did get ugly, for other reasons more familiar to Jean. The Knicks missed shot after shot. Fans stewed in frustrated silence, broken by the occasional curse. With the Knicks down 22 midway through the fourth quarter, some people started to leave, ignoring Jean\u2019s warnings about giving up hope.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how you know who are the real Knicks fans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He stayed calm, clapping for every bucket that chipped away at the deficit. His subdued comrades slowly awakened. The closer the Knicks got, the louder the cheers from the Knicks fans, and the more Arsenal fans outside on the patio and the sidewalks turned to face the game, until eventually the whole corner ignited when the Knicks tied the game in the final minute.<\/p>\n

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Fans celebrate during Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals between the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Inside, they were standing on chairs, leading chants, leaping into the arms of strangers as star point guard Jalen Brunson delivered salvation with a dizzying run of physics-defying shots. They drowned out the final buzzer. Jean turned to the crowd and roared in ecstasy. A sea of embraces engulfed him. Napkins fluttered through the air like confetti. The bar felt like it was shaking.<\/p>\n

When the opening notes of Frank Sinatra\u2019s \u201cNew York, New York\u201d sounded from the speakers, Jean hopped to sit up on the counter with another regular, arms in the air as they led the bar in song.<\/p>

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\u201cI want to be a part of it!\u201d Jean belted, and he was.<\/p>\n

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A Knicks fan holds a Jalen Brunson jersey out of a car window outside FancyFree. (Shuran Huang\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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