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Vin Diesel gets emotional over Knicks\u2019 NBA title like he\u2019s in a Fast & Furious movie<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n For all New Yorkers, the Knicks winning their first championship in 53 years<\/a> is monumental, and Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel<\/a> is feeling it.<\/p>\n He took to Instagram to reflect on the Knicks\u2019 first championship in over \u201chalf a century,\u201d as Disel pointed out. Diesel has been a fan<\/a> for a long time, reminiscing about \u201csneaking\u201d into games.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Garden, Ali and Frazier, fight of the century. Me and my cousin Marcus sneaking in the back door, up the exit stairs to the bleachers. Two broke kids in the cheapest seats in the world, feeling like kings,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe year President Ford told us we were on our own. DROP DEAD, the paper said, and the whole city read it on the subway and went to work anyway. Nobody was coming to save New York, so New York saved itself.<\/p>\n \u201cThe tall ships on the Hudson, Celebrating Independence, America turning two hundred, the fireworks coming up off the water, me on the docks somehow knowing my little corner meant something to the world. I was a first-grader, PS 41, when the Knicks went to LA to beat Wilt and the Lakers\u2026 prouder than I knew how to describe\u2026\u201d Diesel continued.<\/p>\n The Knicks\u2019 championship win has given him the chance to reflect on his early days. He also celebrated the United States\u2019 250th birthday, tying it back to the Knicks.<\/p>\n \u201cTonight\u2026 if you stand back far enough to see it. Half a century\u2026 Fifty years since I stood on that dock for America\u2019s two hundredth birthday\u2026 Half a century since this city last held the trophy\u2026 and now, both come around at once,\u201d Diesel wrote. \u201c250 years old, the whole country about to stand up and ask itself what it is, what it ever was, what it still might be\u2026 and the answer walked off the floor tonight in orange and blue.\u201d<\/p>\n He also praised the Knicks\u2019 \u201cresilience,\u201d comparing it to how the United States won World War II. Diesel wrote, \u201cThe Knicks didn\u2019t win pretty, they won the way New York always wins\u2026 by refusing to lose. You made every New Yorker proud. You made America proud. In the very year we celebrate the resilience of a nation, you reminded the world exactly what the word means.\u201d<\/p>\n