The final garment, which the brand turned out in a matter of days, is a white leather varsity jacket with a metal-studded collar, with Who Decides War’s signature gothic window motif—fittingly modified in blue and orange—on the sleeves. Bravado and D’Amore switched out the frontal Knicks logo to “Spike’s favorite,” which is a version from the late 1980s. They also added a poignant graphic on the back: the Twin Towers, which, for Spike and plenty of other New Yorkers, were long a symbol as synonymous with the Big Apple as the Knicks themselves.

The story gets more personal from there. Like the Lees, Brooklyn-born Bravado also shares a father-son Knicks passion with his and D’Amore’s child, eight-year-old Judah. (D’Amore, however, grew up a Celtics fan in Boston.) When Bravado took Judah to his first Knicks game in 2024, “they exited in the second round of the playoffs, and Judah was so upset, because, you know, him being so young and optimistic, of course he wanted them to win,” the designer recalls. “And I remember saying to him, ‘Now you know what it feels like to be a Knicks fan,’ because my whole life, I’d not seen them get a championship.” Then, “fast forward two years, and we’re in the apartment watching them win it, and I just picked him up and hugged him. It really creates this bond between father and son.”

D’Amore echoed the sentiment. “It’s just so cool to see how much Spike and Jackson are invested in this team, and how present they’ve been. And now to watch Ev and Judah doing that. That’s when I really, truly see how much this moment has meant.”

When Jackson called me back later on, after the chaos subsided, he felt that synergy, too. “Some of my earliest memories are growing up at the Garden with my dad,” he said.“I am so glad I got to watch Game 5 in person with him. It really felt like a major family event.”