Have you ever loved a team so much that you wanted to go to every single game they played in a season?

Dennis Doyle did. And after leaving his job as a lawyer last year, he decided to go for it. He went to every game — home and away — that the New York Knicks played this season. Yes, the team that set a record for fewest wins in franchise history.

The last game of the season was on April 15. They lost to the Detroit Pistons 112-90 to finish with a record of 17-65. We spoke the next day, and Doyle, who is 32, said the best part of the season was the travel and the adventure of it. Experiencing what it’s like to travel like an NBA player for a year — nonstop to different cities. But he said it was exhausting.

“This is no way to live your regular life,” he says. “I have empathy for what the announcers and the press and the players go through.”

And he said the product on the court was the hardest part. “Every game was two-and-a-half hours of terrible basketball.”

The Knicks have been a disappointing team for many years. They have only won one playoff series since the year 2000. But last year legendary coach Phil Jackson — he won 11 championships with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers — was given $60 million to make the team better as the team’s president.

Many of the moves he made in his first season did not work out well. A lot of fans and sportswriters seem to be waiting to see which free agents and college players Jackson adds to the team in the NBA draft before they rate his performance. But as someone who saw the team that Jackson put together play in person more than any other fan, Doyle has some assessments now.

Dennis Doyle during some downtime while in Phoenix to watch the Knicks play the Suns. Dennis Doyle

Of Jackson’s preseason trade of center Tyson Chandler, who was only one year removed from being the Defensive Player of the Year in the NBA, he says, “it was a borderline disaster.” And of the coach Jackson handpicked, Derek Fisher? “A disaster. Honestly, Fisher was so poor that there’s ample grounds to fire him.”

An astute observer of the game, Doyle also questions whether the offense the team runs is suitable in today’s NBA. The team runs the “triangle offense,” which Jackson used when he won his championships. But currently no other NBA team uses it. “It results in midrange jumpers, the least valuable shot on the floor,” he says.

He says another problem with running the triangle is that “you’re limiting yourself to five coaches on planet earth capable of running it. What if they improve next year, but Fisher struggles. Who besides Fisher can you hire to run the triangle? And what if [Chicago Bulls coach Tom] Thibodeau becomes available?” The Knicks wouldn’t be able to hire him because he’s not a triangle guy.

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Doyle also points out that “the knock on Jackson” among some is that he won the titles not because of the triangle, but because he had some of the best players to ever play the game on those teams — Michael Jordan in Chicago and Kobe Bryant in his prime in Los Angeles.

“The triangle offense is an extension of Jackson’s ego. For a guy with 11 championships, he’s incredibly insecure. He fires back at people on twitter,” Doyle says.

But like any die-hard fan, Doyle also has some hope. He says that even if they run the triangle next season, with a better roster they could be fine. Especially if they add players who excel on defense.

Here’s a look at Doyle’s season by the numbers — and some of his favorites around the NBA.

His budget

Original budget: $20,000

Money spent: Around $26,500

Flights: He budgeted $8,000 for flights and spent $8,359. A few times he had to pay rebooking fees because he accidentally booked a couple of flights for the wrong date. “I think that’s bound to happen when you book about 60 flights in the span of two days,” he says

Accommodations: He budgeted for $4,000 and spent $4,415. He did Airbnb for the most part to cut costs. And he stayed with family and friends (for free) whenever possible; there were about 10 cities where he was able to do that.

Game tickets: He budgeted $7,500 and spent $7,729. He spent roughly $3,500 for a Knicks season ticket, and tried not to spend more than $75 a game for away games, “which got me seats anywhere from 10 rows back (Detroit) to the last row in the arena (Brooklyn),” he says. He describes his season ticket at Knicks games as “middle-of-the-road — in the first few rows of the upper tier.”

Rental cars and taxis: He says he didn’t initially budget for rental cars, but estimates he spent about $3,500 on them, which is a major reason he went over his $20,000 budget. He also budgeted $500 for taxis and other transportation (subway passes, etc.) but spent closer to $1,500.

Tourism: He didn’t budget for any tourism, and probably spent close to $1,000 going to different tourist attractions in 28 cities (The Knicks played one game in London, which made for a big expense in this category).

Food: He says he stayed away from fancy restaurants for the most part — “this wasn’t a culinary adventure, after all” — and he tried to sample some cheap local dives wherever he went. He says for lunch he tried not to spend more than $30 on a meal. “For dinner on the road, I almost always ate at the arena, which worked out to be about $15 to $20,” he says.

Flights $8,359 Game tickets $7,729 Accommodations $4,415 Rental cars $3,500 Taxis & public transportation $1,500 Tourism $1,000 TOTAL $26,503 Food not included because it’s an expense that he would have incurred even if he hadn’t gone to every game.

His favorites around the NBA

Arena:

The Staples Center in Los Angeles. “It has a really great atmosphere, even though the Lakers were terrible too. The atmosphere is similar to the garden. And they have a great P.A. announcer.”

Cities:

San Francisco, Portland, and Chicago. “I also liked seeing places I otherwise probably wouldn’t have gone to, like Oklahoma City.”

Fans:

Golden State Warriors fans. And Toronto Raptors fans. “And not just in Toronto, but in New York too. They travel and are very vocal. They’ve really embraced basketball the last few years.”

Player to watch:

Steph Curry. “I love him. He’s a basketball savant. His feel for the game. His basketball I.Q. His savvy. He totally understands how to play the game. A lot of guys are great athletes, but I like the guys who are cerebral too. And he’s one of the sweetest shooters I’ve ever seen. Just a joy to watch. Plays the game with such great joy. It’s infectious. He’s a good guy too. Good head on his shoulders.”

Player available in the NBA draft:

Karl-Anthony Towns, a 19-year-old from New Jersey who just finished his freshman season at the University of Kentucky. He is 6’11” tall. “He has superstar written all over him. I love his motor. His intensity. And the fact that he is a defender.”

“ “The opiate of the masses is the T-shirt gun.” ” — Dennis Doyle

Considering the Knicks were awful all season, Doyle says the crowd rarely booed, and was usually sedate. “The reality is, at these games there are a lot of casual fans. The die-hards have been priced out. And there are a ton of tourists — a lot of Europeans. They’re in New York and it’s an event they can go to,” he says.

He then laughed and said, “The opiate of the masses is the T-shirt gun. The best is when they bring out these mega-cannons that shoot T-shirts. People go crazy for those.”

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Looking back on the experience, Doyle says it was an adventure, but also a quest to reinvent himself. He was a lawyer. He didn’t love it. And he wanted to become a writer. He’s currently writing a proposal for a book about his experiences this season. He has an agent that will help him shop it around. In fact, three agents contacted him during the season about writing a book. “That came out of doing this,” he says.

The book will be a memoir and explore what it means to be a fan.

“This was a good year to try to answer that question,” he says.