The Knicks made a championship run that will be remembered in New York and in NBA history

NEW YORK (AP) — By the time Jalen Brunson and the Knicks returned home, it was as easy to find something orange around New York as at Halloween.

The city was caught up in this championship run for nearly two months and the party will last at least a few days more, with the Knicks’ first parade through New York — they didn’t have one in 1970 or ’73 — scheduled for Thursday.

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The team will be remembered long after the confetti is picked up off the streets of Broadway — and not only in New York.

The 2025-26 Knicks have a place in NBA history.

Their postseason performance is in the discussion for the best in the 80-year history of the league, a run of routs and then comebacks to their first championship since 1973.

“What a run!” former President Barack Obama wrote in a tweet congratulating coach Mike Brown, Brunson and the rest of the Knicks.

One that was arguably as good even as any of Obama’s beloved Bulls.

The Knicks finished 16-3, an .842 winning percentage that matched the 2024 Boston Celtics for the second-best since the format switched to best-of-seven series in all rounds beginning in 2003. The 2017 Golden State Warriors finished 16-1.

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The Los Angeles Lakers went 15-1 in 2001 and the Philadelphia 76ers finished 12-1 in 1983. Five teams finished a postseason with two losses.

The Knicks won 13 consecutive games at one point, second only to the Warriors’ 15 in a row in 2017. They set records by winning nine straight on the road and outscoring their postseason opponents by 283 points.

They were still midway through the NBA Finals when rapper Fat Joe, one of the Knicks’ orange-and-blue dressed celebrity fans, came to Brown’s press conference and said what the team had spent weeks making clear.

“Let’s just wait until it’s over, but right now you analyze the numbers, we might be looking at the greatest team ever, like if you analyze the numbers,” he said.

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And when things stopped coming easily, the Knicks set records for the ways they won the other way. Their comeback from a 29-point deficit in Game 4 was the biggest rally in an NBA Finals game since detailed…

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Author : BRIAN MAHONEY

Publish date : 2026-06-15 05:53:00

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