Watch Spike Lee celebrate as Knicks win first NBA title in 53 years

Spike Lee waited 53 years for this. The Knicks superfan was down on the floor at Frost Bank Center on Saturday night, hugging and high-fiving fellow high-profile Knicks fans and former players as the team was on the stage receiving their NBA championship trophy. It was the Knicks' first championship since 1973. Lee is the most visible Knicks fan in the world. He's been a courtside fixture at Madison Square Garden for four decades. He bought season tickets in 1985, the day after the Knicks drafted Patrick Ewing, and traces his fandom to Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals, which he attended when he was just 13 years old. His orange-and-blue loyalty became NBA lore in 1994, when his courtside sparring with Reggie Miller helped fuel a 25-point fourth quarter from the Pacers' star and the infamous choke gesture that followed. Lee stayed loyal through decades of losing, even after the Nets came to his native borough, Brooklyn. Lee is the acclaimed filmmaker behind movies like "Do the Right Thing," "Malcolm X," and "BlacKkKlansman," for which he won an Academy Award for adapted screenplay. The Brooklyn-raised director, who also received an honorary Oscar in 2016, has spent four decades courtside at Knicks games. The Knicks last won a title in 1973.