Months after the WNBA's Liberty won their first-ever title, the NBA's Knicks have snapped a decades-long Eastern Conference Finals drought to move within four wins of a Finals appearance and eight wins of a title. Fans in the Mecca of basketball have responded accordingly.

The Mecca of Basketball is buzzing again. After clinching their first home playoff series since 1999, the New York Knicks are just four wins away from a long-awaited trip to the NBA Finals

The last time the Knicks won a championship was 1973. The last time they even made it to the finals was 1999. But honestly, that appearance shouldn’t count. ’99 was a lockout season — it was the first time the NBA ever lost games to a labor dispute (and the year the league’s locked-out stars played a pay-per-view exhibition game that famously showed most of them completely out of shape) — and only 50 regular-season games took place.