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The New York Knicks just won a championship without a pick in the top half of the lottery or a league-shaping superstar changing hands.
Brick by brick by brick, Leon Rose took the Knicks from an NBA afterthought to the top of the basketball world, giving hope to desperate fanbases. Fanbases like the New York Jets, one of the few organizations more downtrodden than their city-bound neighbors.
Nobody's mistaking the Jets for contenders. Even going .500 feels far away. But if you squint hard enough, you can see a similar vision in East Rutherford and Manhattan, and New York's recent move is another example of how the Jets are finally doing things the right way.
On Monday, ESPN reported that the Jets signed right guard Joe Tippmann to a four-year, $62 million extension, with $31 million in guarantees.
The New York Knicks just won a championship without a pick in the top half of the lottery or a league-shaping superstar changing hands.
Brick by brick by brick, Leon Rose took the Knicks from an NBA afterthought to the top of the basketball world, giving hope to desperate fanbases. Fanbases like the New York Jets, one of the few organizations more downtrodden than their city-bound neighbors.
Nobody's mistaking the Jets for contenders. Even going .500 feels far away. But if you squint hard enough, you can see a similar vision in East Rutherford and Manhattan, and New York's recent move is another example of how the Jets are finally doing things the right way.
On Monday, ESPN reported that the Jets signed right guard Joe Tippmann to a four-year, $62 million extension, with $31 million in guarantees.
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