As a raucous Madison Square Garden crowd chanted Obi Toppin’s name during the Knicks’ second-half comeback over the Hawks on Wednesday night, Roni Toppin wiped away tears.
Roni, Obi Toppin’s mother, took in the scene from inside the Garden as 15 thousand fans cheered his name following an electric alley-oop dunk that put New York ahead by six in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter. Roni wiped away tears with the Garden in a frenzy during what would become the team’s first playoff win in eight years.
Roni, in an interview with the New York Post earlier this year, said she was desperately trying to get a part-time job at MSG so she would be able to watch her son’s rookie year in person, since fans weren’t allowed in the arena at the start of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the New York resident was there for her son’s biggest moment as a Knick so far.
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