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Richard Lewis maintained his New York Knicks fandom until the very end as the comedian wore his 'Knicks prayer pajamas' during the preseason
Beloved comedian Richard Lewis passed away in Los Angeles on Wednesday from a heart attack at 76 years of age, but his heart will always remain with the New York Knicks.
The comedian and native New Yorker was a lifelong fan of the NBA team, with Knicks beat writer Stefan Bondy sharing a story about his fandom on X (formerly Twitter). He also posted a link for the ad, which showed clips of thrilling NBA game footage while cutting back to Lewis sitting courtside. 'While most of my relatives were undoubtedly glued to the tube watching My Mother The Car, I wept openly as the greatest sportscaster of all time, the golden throat of the Knicks, Marv Albert, described near perfectly the action from a crummy television high atop a noisy cash register at some sleazy pickup bar as a nurse from Teaneck brazenly and impossibly tried to veer my attention away (not knowing that even under the best of circumstances she never would have had a shot in hell after I witnessed, during a commercial, her spitting a golf-ball-sized wad of Dentyne into her glass before downing what had to be at least her 10th drink) to no avail,' he wrote.
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