Bonn1997 wrote:Interesting. So many teams cover more territory than the Knicks!
It's surprising since so many New Yorkers move south but I guess they have no reason to hang on to the Knicks.

Yea is this accurate? Atlanta, Charlotte
& Florida seem to have a ton of Knicks fans when the Knicks play in their buildings

Then again the Knicks have been awful for 15 yrs

djsunyc wrote:

At least that's one fan. Or two, depending on your focus.

New Yorkers, no matter where they end up, don't give up their roots, they say they're from NY till the day they die, so a lot of these Knicks fan who are transplants are still probably New Yorkers on Facebook, so the orange only shows up around New York, not where they actually might be living.

This would explain LA's reach, too. Not a lot of people leave LA, but many people outside of it adopt the Lakers, especially in the mid-west. New Yorkers leave NY in droves because of taxes, finances, weather, etc, but they are rooted, so they never really change their location. That's the only explanation I have as to why there isn't more orange, because, even during games, commentators talk about it all the time, that Knicks fans are everywhere. Atlanta being another city, like Miami, which should have more orange.