Eagles general manager Howie Roseman gave Knicks president Leon Rose a good luck charm before Game 4 of the NBA Finals, and fans had reactions.
Howie Roseman went to the game with his sons. He gave Leon Rose a piece of slate from the City of David in Jerusalem, an ancient religious site tied to the founding of the city. Roseman told Leon Rose he had carried the same piece of slate through the Eagles’ Super Bowl run the year before. He said it had brought him luck then, and he wanted to pass that luck along.
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That night, the Knicks pulled off a wild comeback. They erased a 29-point deficit to beat the Spurs and even their series.
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Fans had thoughts.
“Didn’t need some superstitious bullshit, just needed the dawgs in uniform,” one fan tweeted
“This is a Dov Kleiman or MLFootball kind of tweet,” another fan tweeted,
“I don’t get what this is implying,” a third fan tweeted
“The Christian men on the court made that comeback, not the Jewish men behind the scenes,” One wrote
“That’s fuckin gross, but hey, Jew, can we keep it for us? I wanna win another Super Bowl.” Another wrote
“I don’t get what this is implying.” Another wrote
Leon Rose told the story himself on video after the game. He said Howie Roseman approached him before tip-off and handed him the slate, explaining where it had been and what it had supposedly done for the Eagles. Leon Rose called it “un-frigging-believable” that the same charm seemed to deliver twice.
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The Knicks’ historic comeback that followed
The Game 4 rally set the stage for a championship-clinching win two nights later. The Knicks beat the Spurs 94-90 in Game 5, closing out the series and capturing their first NBA championship in 53 years. The drought had stretched back to 1973, making this title one of the longest-awaited in NBA history.
The series also drew massive television interest as the comeback story built momentum. Game 5 averaged 24.5 million viewers across ABC and ESPN, the most for any Game 5 since Michael Jordan’s Bulls won their sixth title in 1998, according to Nielsen data cited by ESPN.
Edited by Aman Kashyap
