Preseason Game 4 Raptors at Knicks

The Raptors head to Madison Square Garden, the Mecca of Sports in North America to face the New York Knicks tonight. The Knicks have had an eventful off-season. They got a new GM in the legendary Phil Jackson, former coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers taking both teams to multiple championships. They re-signed Carmelo Anthony and got a few new players in a trade with the Dallas Mavericks

• For Canadian fans NBA journeyman Samuel Dalembert finds his home in New York and was part of the trade that sent Tyson Chandler to Dallas
• 3 ex-Raptors now suit up for the Knicks. Fan favourites Quincy Acy and Jose Calderon joined via free-agency and a trade over the Summer. And former Toronto 2006 #1 overall pick Andrea Bargnani is in his final year of contract with the Knicks after being traded by Masai Ujiri in 2013.
• New York has a new head coach in Derek Fisher who played in LA under Phil Jackson. Should be an interesting dynamic there.

Going to keep this one simple for now. There are plenty of songs written about New York and the Raptors will face them a bunch more times before the year is out. So here's Ryan Adams' "New York, New York". An interesting thing about this video is it was filmed just 4 days before September 11, 2001 and features the WTC heavily. After it was released it became a tribute to one of the gretest cities in the world.

Battle for Atlantic!!