Taking Shots With Spike Lee and His Arsenal Fan Club: “It’s Always Electric When He Shows Up”
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Taking Shots With Spike Lee and His Arsenal Fan Club: “It’s Always Electric When He Shows Up”

Politics tamfitronics It was just about game-time, and Spike Lee was amped. He rubbed his hands and tapped his feet. The opening whistle couldn’t come fast enough.Once play began, Lee was a fount of running commentary, his eyes fixed to the action. “How is that not a foul?” Lee hollered. “You can’t hold the guy’s hand!”This was primo Spike, vintage Spike—the Spike who has spent decades talking shit and working the refs from his courtside throne at Madison Square Garden. At a building dubbed “the world’s most famous arena,” he has earned a reputation as perhaps the world’s most famous fan, and as of Friday, a Hall of Fame one, too.But on this particular Sunday, Lee was not cheering on his beloved New York Knicks at the Garden or high-fiving the Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu at...
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