{"id":2169,"date":"2026-06-20T05:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2026-06-20T05:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:06:57","slug":"john-turturro-walked-across-the-brooklyn-bridge-so-he-could-be-at-the-knicks-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"John Turturro Walked Across the Brooklyn Bridge So He Could Be at the Knicks Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nJohn Turturro was on the subway from Brooklyn early Thursday morning heading to the Knicks parade like a million other giddy schlubs when he hit a snag: The subway on the Brooklyn side was, for security reasons, skipping all the way to 14th\u00a0Street in Manhattan, miles from the parade.<\/p>\n

So Turturro did what his Knicks would do when faced with an obstacle \u2014 he found a way.<\/p>\n

The actor decided to get off the train and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, joining an impromptu group of determined fans. Along the way, he made a new friend (of course), a woman named Alma whom he helped get into the tightly controlled parade pen when they arrived.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how to walk to the Brooklyn Bridge, so I walked,\u201d he said, Anunoby-esque in his demeanor.<\/p>\n

Of all the Knicks\u2019 devoted celebrity fans this title run not named Spike Lee \u2014 Chalamet, Stiller, Hargitay, Morgan \u2014 Turturro may hold the claim on most ardent, and certainly the most longtime. He listened to the early-1970\u2019s championships as a teenager in Queens on the radio, sweating out every Bill Bradley board and Earl the Pearl circus jumper. So devoted was he to those title teams he lobbied his mother to send away for tickets to Willis Reed\u2019s short-lived talk show.<\/p>\n

When the Knicks lost the finals in 1971, he threw a shoe and broke his family\u2019s small Zenith black-and-white TV. That 1994 Game 7 when John Starks kept clanging shots as the title slipped away against the Rockets? Turturro was at the arena in Houston, enduring the same agita as the rest of us.<\/p>\n

All that pain, of course, makes the current run that much sweeter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been through thick and thin. Some really dark days, really dark,\u201d Turturro said, slipping into a tormented memory hole, as he cited the lack of supporting cast for Patrick Ewing, the 2010\u2019s-era trading of the farm for Carmelo, and other traumas known mainly to the Knicks PTSD-ed.<\/p>\n

Then his mood turned exultant. \u201cBrunson, he\u2019s just a winner. What he did in that last game. He took it to Wemby; even Shea Alexander didn\u2019t take it to him like that,\u201d he said, referring to the Spurs big man and Thunder MVP, respectively.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAs he sat on a Zoom with a reporter Thursday afternoon, still wearing a Knicks championship T-shirt but back home in Brooklyn in his book-filled reading room, Turturro still couldn\u2019t contain himself. \u201c16-3. 16-3!\u201d he said, noting the team\u2019s playoff record this season. \u201cI mean that\u2019s just\u2026.\u201d His voice trailed off in disbelief.<\/p>\n

\n\tTurturro is the kind of fan for whom team, city and personal identity become so entwined you, and they, are not sure where one ends and the other begins, or sometimes which they\u2019re referring to. A longtime season ticket holder, he often goes to games with his Do The Right Thing<\/em> collaborator Spike Lee, who invited him down for the title-clinching Game 5 in San Antonio when Lee\u2019s wife couldn\u2019t make the trip. Their basketball friendship has the stuff of an odd-couple buddy comedy.<\/p>\n

Once Spike couldn\u2019t pay him on an indie movie that Turturro did a cameo on, so instead Lee gave him tickets to four games; on another film Turturro was able to get the number of games up.<\/p>\n

When Charles Barkley was playing, he would make a habit of predicting the Knicks player he would dunk on to Turturro and Lee sitting courtside, then go out and do it. Once Shaq nearly fell on them when he was playing for Orlando. Turturro tucked Lee underneath to protect him. \u201cI\u2019m bigger than him, so I figured that was something I should do,\u201d he said reasonably.<\/p>\n

On the set of Severance <\/em>in recent years, Turturro would often talk about the Knicks with Stiller and Britt Lower, who played high-school ball. \u201cBut I used to offer people Knicks tickets a lot and a lot of times there were no takers,\u201d he said, ruefully, a phenomenon he noted was unlikely to happen now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a starved fanbase but we\u2019ve been building up hope,\u201d he said, before going to the epic comeback in Game 4, a topic that \u2014 in fairness, like many New Yorkers right now \u2014 he can\u2019t go five seconds without bringing up. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was completely depressed. We were saying \u2019they were destroying us.\u2019 And then we saw a miracle. A miracle.\u201d He nodded to the New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s speech at the parade about the very tall odds the team overcame in the fourth quarter of the game. \u201cI love that he talked about the 0.4 percent. That\u2019s what we do,\u201d he said, presumably referring to Knicks, or Knicks fans, or New Yorkers, or just humans. \u201cWhen you give us 0.4 percent, that\u2019s when we are at our best.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t(Asked about Taylor Swift\u2019s courtside presence at that miraculous Game 4, Turturro said, semi-obliquely,\u201dThere are people who come and show up. Will they show up again? I don\u2019t know. It is what it is.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The actor, who stars in the upcoming Sundance darling and gritty Gotham picture The Only Living Pickpocket in New York<\/em>, says he finds the dialog between the city and the Knicks a long-running theme.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I was a kid, the Knicks brought the city together at a tumultuous time, a beautiful team of Black and white players.\u201d Now, he said, the club has had the same effect. \u201cYou feel it outside the Garden and on the train home,\u201d which he regularly takes. \u201cSports can be a unifying thing, everyone talking to each other. A beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the Hollywood angles to this Knicks title run seem obvious, Turturro isn\u2019t convinced the team is ready for a sports-movie treatment. \u201cThe thing about basketball movies is you need people who can play\u00a0basketball. They need to hoop. That\u2019s not so easy.\u201d But the actor had another idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would take seven of them and remake Seven Samurai,\u201d he said. \u201cSeven Samurai with the Knicks. OG would be the guy with the bow and arrow. Brunson, you could see would lead the guys when they were outnumbered. Josh Hart would be the crazy Toshiro Mifune character. Now that, that I can see.\u201d<\/p>\n

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