# @jesseitzler on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ8hcm8RkqY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67239828-jesseitzler-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/1c4fe57ccb.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-23T22:47:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jesse Itzler (@jesseitzler) — https://gondola.cc/jesseitzler

## Caption

I convinced the Knicks to pay for my car.

Comment “Knicks” to hear ALL the stories behind my GO NY GO era in my new YouTube video 🤣

1993… The song was everywhere... but I was still broke. People were calling me for tickets and I didn’t even own a car. Just a bike that took me everywhere.

So I had an idea. What if I got a van... wrapped the whole thing in the Knicks logo... filled it with keychains and bumper stickers and handed them out everywhere I went. A rolling billboard for the team. There weren’t even wrapped buses back then. Nobody was doing this. In exchange, the Knicks cover the lease, the gas, the parking.

I pitched it. They said YES.

Just like that I had a van. Half nyknicks on one side… half nyliberty on the other. That was my car for a YEAR. I picked up my grandmother at the airport in it. I took girls on dates in it. Picture pulling up to a first date in a giant Knicks billboard on wheels...

Here’s the thing... I didn’t have the money for a car, so I built a way to get one for free. You’re almost never actually stuck. You’re usually just one creative idea away from turning a problem into a win.

Don’t think outside the box... think like there’s NO box!!

Comment “Knicks” for the full YouTube video on GO NY GO.

#GONYGO

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