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New York Knicks fans have infiltrated opposing arenas throughout their team’s storybook playoff run. With ticket prices at Madison Square Garden out of reach for many Knicks lifers, several have hit the road to get their postseason fix. Perhaps that will happen again in the NBA Finals, especially now that, according to Gametime data from Monday morning, the get-in cost …

If you have been up to date on the Giannis Antetokounmpo summer sweepstakes, you would know that the Cleveland Cavaliers are one of the teams being floated as a destination for the Milwaukee Bucks’ superstar. In an article by Cleveland.com’s Chris Fedor, he describes where the Cavaliers’ ‘brain trust’ lands on a potential trade centered around Evan Mobley for Antetokounmpo. …

MarJon Beauchamp was the last player the Sixers acquired before the 2025-26 season began. After the final preseason game, the team waived Emoni Bates and signed Beauchamp to an Exhibit 10 contract. He spent the majority of the season in the G League playing for the Delaware Blue Coats. In 19 games for the Coats he averaged 25.2 points shooting …

The stage is set for the 2026 NBA Finals. A historic postseason run for the New York Knicks has them back representing the East for the first time this century, while the San Antonio Spurs represent the West after knocking down the defending champs. This is a rematch of the 1999 NBA Finals, where San Antonio defeated New York 4-1 …

One month ago, I was certain the New York Knicks had made an irrevocable mistake with the Mikal Bridges trade. It would be remembered as the deal that changed the landscape of NBA trades forever, and the tragic end to the Villanova Telenovela. Buried in the sands of time, there exists an unpublished trade retrospective that I submitted the morning …

The Larry O’Brien Trophy image will be back on the court for the 2026 NBA Finals. So will the classic script logo. It became a social media controversy during last year’s NBA Finals when there was no image of the NBA’s championship trophy on the court. The NBA has special courts made by all 30 teams for the NBA Cup …

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Sean Sweeney was formally named coach of the Orlando Magic on Monday after the sides struck an agreement in principle last week. Sweeney, the associate head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, will remain with that team through the conclusion of the NBA Finals. The Magic will introduce Sweeney at some point after the finals between …

As point guards coming out of a Kelvin Sampson-led program tend to do, Kingston Flemings, of the University of Houston, will come into the NBA with more than one trick in his bag. Playing under Sampson in his only year in the college game is perhaps another advantage he has over the bevy of attractive guard prospects invading the NBA …

The NBA will have a unique champion for the eighth straight year. The San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks are squaring off in a 2026 NBA Finals matchup no one could have seen coming. Before this stretch, the league had never had more than six consecutive unique champions, which happened from 1975-1980. No team has won multiple titles over …

Few owners in professional sports have generated more controversy with less winning than James Dolan. In more than 25 years running the New York Knicks, he has fired coaches, feuded with legends, lost a sexual harassment verdict, banned lawyers with facial recognition software, ejected a beloved former player in front of a national audience and sued a rival franchise in …

After 27 years, the Knicks are back in the NBA Finals, with a real shot to win an NBA championship for the first time in 53 years. Standing in New York’s way is the 62-20 San Antonio Spurs and 7-foot-4 superstar Victor Wembanyama. Both teams have some familiarity with each other, as the Knicks defeated the Spurs in the NBA …

Given a day to reflect on how a potential repeat NBA championship got away, league MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was still feeling the pain of a Game 7 loss. His top-seeded Oklahoma City Thundersuffered a stunning 111-103 defeat at home in the Western Conference finals as the San Antonio Spurs advanced to face the New York Knicks for the title. Advertisement …

The 2026 NBA Finals are set, and in their first return in 27 years, the Knicks seek to get revenge for their last appearance, a five-game loss in 1999 to the San Antonio Spurs. It won’t be the walk in the park the Eastern Conference was, so let’s break down the strategies and adjustments we’re likely to see and predict this year’s …

Chet Holmgren took two shots in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals. And he didn’t attempt a third after Victor Wembanyama rose up and detonated on him for one of the most violent dunks of these playoffs: (Christian Petersen via Getty Images) The poster was so emphatic it seemed to physically eliminate Holmgren. He just sort of stopped existing. …

Throughout the regular season, previously unproven players stepped up in the absence of Jayson Tatum and the rest of the departed championship core. It was Neemias Queta stepping into the starting lineup for Al Horford and Kristaps Porzingis and Luka Garza being a nightly Tommy Award candidate. It was Jordan Walsh becoming a bona fide 3-and-D threat, the nineteen-year-old rookie …

Can Wednesday come soon enough? No, it seems it cannot. Here’s the latest from Sunday’s practice at Tarrytown and elsewhere. On Mitchell Robinson’s status during Sunday’s practice: “I know there’s something there (on his hand), but I can’t… I can’t tell you what. I don’t know (if he’d be cleared for Game 1). I do know that the medical group …

KAT called it. The Knicks and Spurs will be facing off in a rematch of the 1999 NBA Finals, and fans have spotted an eerily accurate prediction from Karl-Anthony Towns ahead of his Knicks debut two years ago. Advertisement Prior to the October 6, 2024 preseason matchup at the Charlotte Hornets, Towns arrived at the Spectrum Center wearing a retro …

Through the Knicks’ first eight postseason games, there was no player who was more valuable than OG Anunoby. In the NBA Finals, he may be Mike Brown’s most important player again. While Anunoby will be counted on to continue his career-best postseason run — ranking second on the team with 19.7 points while shooting 57.7 percent from the field (48.3 …

Another NBA Finals opens in San Antonio. Mike Brown was on the bench — in what is now known as the Frost Bank Center — with Gregg Popovich during the 2003 NBA Finals, serving as a young assistant in the title series against the Nets, which ended with a parade along the San Antonio River. Advertisement Four years later, Brown …

Consider this a small step in the right direction. Mitchell Robinson, dealing with a broken left pinky finger, took part in practice Sunday. The valuable big man went through individual work, according to coach Mike Brown. Advertisement Brown said Robinson’s status is uncertain for Wednesday’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio, although there is hope he will …

If you were drafting a player solely on winning, Cam Boozer might be that player. In every competitive league that Boozer has been a part of, he’s been a winner. And not just a winner, but dominant. Don’t believe me, here’s a list of his accomplishments: High School (Christopher Columbus High School, FL): Won four consecutive Florida state championships and …

Whenever a new set of rules is adopted by a league, like the NBA’s new anti-tanking draft lottery, there will always be unintended consequences. Now, when the system is as absurd as the one implemented by NBA commissioner Adam Silver, there’s going to be lots and lots of those types of ripple effects. Advertisement Last week, the league adopted a …

Josh Hart has a unique take on potentially being defended by Spurs unicorn Victor Wembanyama. “That’s the only unanimous Defensive Player of the Year, so that’s a pretty good sign for me, right?” Hart said Sunday after practice. “That means I’m a pretty good basketball player.” Advertisement Hart was somewhat joking, knowing if the Spurs do in fact put the …

The NBA Finals participants have been decided, but unfortunately the Boston Celtics are not among the participants. In some ways that was expected at the start of the season. In many ways, that is still a stinging disappointment based on how the regular season played out. So all of our attention is going to be focused on the path to …