Game No. 81 took him to Atlanta, and after spending $26,000 of his savings over more than five months to take in 64 losses (and 17 wins), Doyle wore khaki shorts, a blue T-shirt and the ashen expression of someone who had been a stowaway on a ship adrift at sea.

“It would have been a totally different experience,” he said, “if they’d been good.”

Doyle, 32, whose existential crisis was first reported in November, decided to follow the Knicks around for the season after being let go from his job as a lawyer. A lifelong fan of the team, he has chronicled his travels in a blog — The Oakman Cometh: A Season With the New York Knicks — and recently signed with a literary agent, Josh Getzler, to shop a book proposal.

“I think he has appropriately suffered,” Kelley Doyle Snyder, one of his older sisters, said in a telephone interview. “He knew this was going to be a personal transformation, and you never know what the transformation is going to bring. But you know that there’s going to be some pain involved.”

The unusual nature of Doyle’s feat has brought its own measure of acclaim. He has been written up by The New York Post, which described him as a “basket case,” and by Sports Illustrated, which questioned his sanity in more muted terms. A handful of people have come by his seat at the Garden to offer their condolences, he said. A Japanese television station also interviewed him, although Doyle said he was uncertain whether the story ever aired.

“I might be big in Japan right now,” he said. “I’m not sure.”

To be clear, he has no illusions about his celebrity. He is not often recognized, although he was by a fan who happened to be sitting next to him in Miami for a game against the Heat.