Believe it or not, the Bible, written some 3,500 years ago, doesn’t talk about the NBA or even the Knicks, but the Bible does instruct us that we have a mitzvah, an obligation, to be supporters of Zion and lovers of Zion. So God, we ask you: Please let the lottery fall to the Knicks tonight so that we can be lovers of Zion and supporters of Zion, for many years to come.

  -- Rabbi Adam Mintz, of the Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim synagogue on the Upper West Side, offering his prayers for the Knicks to be blessed with the #1 pick in the upcoming NBA draft so they can land the phenom Zion Williamson... Mintz took his turn offering his prayers along with "a miracle healer and medical medium, a shaman, a member of the Eckankar clergy and two witches all came to the Garden in recent days. What ensued was a mix of blessings, cleansings and other-worldly manifestations in an attempt to reverse the Knicks’ fortunes"