Emotions run high after Knicks pick Porzingis

Kristaps Porzingis is escorted onto the stage with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as the number four overall pick to the New York Knicks in the first round of the 2015 NBA Draft at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, June 25, 2015. (Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports)

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Summing up the reaction of New York Knicks fans everywhere when the team picked Latvian project Kristaps Porzingis with the fourth overall pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, one young fan cried and, at the urging of his father, gave the selection a big thumbs down at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

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