In the National Basketball Association, both Mets and Yankees fans tend to back the New York Knicks, it is a common misconception that Yankees fans support the Nets due to the Nets and Yankees sharing the YES Network, the current television broadcaster of the Yankees and the Nets, which was the result of the YankeeNets LLC creation in the late 1990s as part of the brief merger of the teams' business functions. While the Mets do have a strong presence in Brooklyn, most Mets fans reside in Long Island and Queens, where there is a strong Knicks fandom due to the Nets long tenure in New Jersey, most New Yorkers in general root for the Knicks as they feel they truly represent New York, having played in New York since the team's founding in 1946, while the Nets still have a strong fanbase in Northern New Jersey. It could also be noted that Brooklyn is considered part of Long Island and New York City whereas the Bronx is considered to just be a part of the City, Given the Knicks play in Manhattan, The Bronx would be filled to the brim with Knicks fans as fans of either team decide their favorite teams if they are Long Islanders or "city folk". Fans of both teams, regardless of baseball team support, share common hatred of the Boston Celtics, while Mets fans shared their hatred as well of the Philadelphia 76ers regardless of being a fan of either one of the two teams or both. Outside Major League Baseball, the teams rivalry has shown passions from fans of both sides. OK, here's what I don't understand about Yankees fans: The Mets stink. We're awful. And the Yankees are usually really good. So why do you boo us? You should feel badly for us. We root for this awful team that never wins and yet the Yankees fans boo us. I don't understand that. And other Mets fans say boo to the Yankees because they say boo to us and is not fair about that so they should care about the 2 New York team especially when they go see the team play the subway series and they should all cheer up on the subway series.