However, despite the criticism from de Blasio, at least one person in New York City went all the way to the polls just to write Young’s name down. Young, whose Hawks defeated the Knicks in the first round of the playoffs this past season, immediately became an NYC villain with theatrical antics like taking a bow after winning or showing up at Madison Square Garden for an appearance on WWE’s Smackdown. The current mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, publicly told Young to stop “ hunting fouls” because it’s not the right way to play basketball. But it was more surprising to see Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young earn a vote. So even though we don’t know its political affiliation or the platform that it would have run on, we do know Bing Bong at least received multiple votes - including one likely vote from NYC band Rebounder - for political office.Ĭonsidering the popularity of Bing Bong across the city, it’s no surprise that folks took the joke to the ballot. It originated from a wild video from the folks at Sidetalk NYC and it is said because it sounds like the noise the closing doors make on the subways across the city.įans have turned the phrase into a meme and even players on the team, like Evan Fournier, have tweeted about it. But now that results for the write-in candidates were released for public record, we got to see some of the ways that New Yorkers had fun with the voting process.Īt least for basketball fans, when looking at the results, the most interesting write-in votes were cast for “Bing Bong” to become the next mayor of New York City.īing Bong, as we learned back in October, has become the rallying cry for the New York Knicks so far this season. In order to get elected mayor of New York City, Eric Adams had some unexpected foes he had to earn more votes than along the way.Įric Adams received more than 70 percent of the voting share and had little trouble winning the election on Nov.

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