New York City celebrated the Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years with a fitting soundtrack. As fans packed the streets for the championship parade on Thursday morning, streams of…
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NEW YORK—All was quiet along the Canyon of Heroes on Wednesday morning—or, at least, as quiet as a stretch of downtown Manhattan can be on a summer workday. Flocks of tourists maneuvered around lumbering delivery trucks, hawked to by distributors of seemingly unlicensed 2026 Knicks championship gear. On Broadway, someone watered the flower pots wrapped […]
The New York Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years captivated basketball fans nationwide, delivering the most-watched NBA Finals since Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls last won a title in 1998.…
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In earning their first NBA title in 53 years, the New York Knicks gifted the league and ABC the biggest TV turnout since Michael Jordan celebrated his final championship in 1998. According to Nielsen Big Data + Panel estimates, the Knicks’ five-game defeat of the favored San Antonio Spurs averaged 20.6 million viewers per night, […]
SAN ANTONIO — "Wow … more Knicks fans?" said a local child, dejectedly, as he rounded a corner on the River Walk, only to encounter a cheerful man wearing a "Nueva York" edition David Lee jersey. Saturday morning, before Game 5 of the NBA Finals, this child's Spurs team still had life in it yet. But from the tone of his voice, it was clear that he had lost some emotional battle…
The New York Knicks are NBA champions. That meant Harry and I had to bring back regular guest Giri Nathan onto _Nothing But Respect_ to talk about what it felt like to watch his team win a championship, Jalen Brunson's big-ass head, and James Dolan's performance on the championship podium. Unlike last time around, his power did not cut out at the last second, so this was a real success! Everyone…
The New York Knicks’ long-awaited NBA championship has sparked one of the biggest fan commerce moments in sports history. According to Fanatics, the NBA’s official e-commerce partner, the Knicks became…
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It's hard to explain what it's been like walking around New York City over the past two weeks. Even if the Knicks don't specifically come up, the spirits are high. Knicks gear and colors are everywhere, the people are smiling, the mayor is Muslim, the bagels are Jewish, etc. During the actual Finals games, every establishment with a TV was completely packed out, full of people losing their minds…
Victor Wembanyama is maybe just kind of a corny guy. I think we are all going to have to get accustomed to that. His taste in reading material could scarcely be more embarrassing shy of, like, pickup-artist instruction manuals. He seems to go out of his way to cultivate a public Man of Sophistication image, which is among other things hilariously at odds with what he's reading. He can be…
Fresh off the New York Knicks’ historic championship victory, Josh Hart already knew how he wanted to celebrate. During his postgame press conference, Hart gave a nod to PATRÓN while…
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New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby delivered one of the funniest moments of the team’s championship celebration after struggling to end his Instagram Live stream following the franchise’s first NBA…
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Days of humidity had finally broken with a thunderstorm the night before. Brazilians were all over midtown, getting ready for their World Cup game. Puerto Rican and Pride flags were everywhere. "Knicks in five" was no longer a shibboleth or even a prediction; it was now the city's standard greeting. It was a glorious Saturday to be out in New York.
The watch parties had started organically.…
Gotham's true heroes, its sanitation brigades, are still sweeping up the dazed, delirious, and confused bodies from the streets of the city, and the clean-up will take them well into this evening. Then they'll have to do it all over again Thursday after the obligatory semi-violent boozer disguised as a parade. _These_ New York Knicks are finally done with being the Knicks of yore, and the city…
With a 94-90 win in Game 5, yet another doughty comeback and superlative Jalen Brunson takeover, the New York Knicks are NBA champions. This is an unsettling and unusual thing to say, because they are the New York Knicks.
Knicks fandom has, historically, been about feeling bad. But feeling bad together is still a communal experience. Much of the conversation in New York these past two months has…
The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs Saturday night to win the NBA Finals in five games and clinch the franchise’s first championship since 1973. Jalen Brunson was named Finals MVP and will be part of a Knicks squad next season that will be among the top title contenders. The losing Spurs were […]
Knicks mania is in the air, but how does that affect local businesses beyond the obvious cases, like bars packed out on random weeknights? Beer is a constant, but what about print media? To find out, I stopped by Casa Magazines, a well-loved corner store in the West Village where you can procure pretty much anything printed, from the daily tabloids to esoteric small-batch fare. I spoke to Casa…
The New York Knicks pulled off the largest comeback in NBA Finals history, sending ecstatic fans straight to Spotify to soundtrack their historic celebration. Following the monumental game, New York…
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If by any chance you’re one of the New Yorkers who switched off Wednesday night’s NBA Finals game after the Knicks went down 29 to the Spurs, your neighbors probably let you know how things shook out in the Garden well before the nearest screen confirmed the outcome. In what Knicks coach Mike Brown later […]
ESPN has more than 50 cameras set up around the arena during NBA Finals broadcasts, but only one of those angles is unofficially named after a New York Knicks legend. And moments after OG Anunoby tipped in a rebound to put the Knicks up 1 with 1.2 seconds left on the clock Wednesday, that was […]
The sounds coming out of me were causing the sleeping baby to stir, so I had to remove myself from the premises. But I had just seen the hand of god steal Game 4 in the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history, giving the New York Knicks a 3-1 series lead, and I was in a city full of fellow witnesses making similarly feral sounds.
Earlier in the fourth quarter, while the San Antonio Spurs' lead…
There are many people who are capable of watching dramatic sporting events in crowded bars and enjoying themselves. You may be one of them, and you have almost certainly seen them out there erupting in celebration at big moments, or just chanting "U-P-S" at a UPS truck because they don't know what else to do with themselves. The NBA playoffs are great for these people, and the subset that have…
If OG Anunoby's miraculous putback of Jalen Brunson's long three is the Hand of God, maybe the play before it was the Brain of Squirrel. It was San Antonio Spurs guard De'Aaron Fox, currently finishing up his ninth year in the NBA, who made a pre-rookie mistake that allowed the New York Knicks the chance to take the 3-1 series lead.
With under 20 seconds to go and the Spurs up one, a Brunson…
Not even the professionals inside the New York Knicks press conference room could contain themselves as the clock neared 1 a.m. Thursday morning. Some clapped when Knicks head coach Mike Brown hailed reserve guard Jose Alvarado’s performance—8 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, all in the fourth quarter—during the largest comeback in NBA Finals history, […]
Some games get you thinking about a higher power. Not because it seems like some cosmic force has put a thumb on the scale in favor of one side or the other, but because the game in question produces a result so unlikely, so ornately designed, that it can only have occurred exactly as it did.
Game 4 of the NBA Finals has me feeling like one of those Kansas creationists who point to a bacterial…
The New York Knicks are one victory away from ending a 53-year championship drought after completing one of the greatest comebacks in NBA Finals history. Facing a 29-point deficit, the…
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The 2026 NBA Finals continue to deliver record-setting interest. Game 3 between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs averaged 23.8 million viewers across ABC and ESPN, making it…
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The public back-and-forth between ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith and President Donald Trump intensified this week following the New York Knicks’ Game 3 loss in the NBA Finals. The exchange…
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Taylor Swift and Sydney Sweeney grabbed attention Wednesday night at the NBA Finals. The stars attended the New York Knicks vs. San Antonio Spurs matchup. Madison Square Garden was packed with celebrities throughout. Several familiar faces watched as the NBA Finals continued. New York Knicks vs. San Antonio Spurs game was full of celebrities Game […]
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Nobody wants to think about officiating, much less talk about it. Joyce Carol Oates knows it. The NBA Finals are no occasion for rational nonpartisanship. The middle ground is out of reach.
If I want to say something straightforwardly true about the officiating, like, "Referees are still sorting out how to protect Victor Wembanyama from a kind of mauling that only he faces," unless I surround…
As of publication, the New York Knicks maintain a 2-1 edge in the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs. It's been an entertaining, nervous, and extremely high-level series, and this week on _Nothing But Respect_ , Harry and I sought out two returning champions. Devon Walker, comedian and podcaster and generally very funny internet person, is a big Spurs fan; he expressed his loathing for the…