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The New York Knicks, for the first time since 1973, are NBA champions. Their victory represents something unique in the modern NBA. They are the first team since Isiah Thomas and the 1990 Detroit Pistons to be led by an undersized, physical guard all the way to a championship. Sure, you can point to Steph Curry as the best player …

Jalen Brunson didn’t address his haters after winning the NBA Finals MVP, but his sister Erica took a different approach. Erica took to X the morning after the Knicks won their first title in 53 years, calling out critics of her older brother who claimed that he was not a player capable of leading his team to a championship. Advertisement …

Knicks point guard Jose Alvarado started his victory tour in his native Brooklyn by making a surprise appearance in the Knickerbocker Avenue Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday. Alvarado ditched his white tank top and waved it over his head while the crowd chanted “Knicks in five!” during the eighth annual parade in Bushwick. Advertisement “Thank you guys so much, …

For their first NBA championship in 53 years, the Knicks will also get a bump in their bank accounts. Per Sportico’s Kurt Badenhausen, each player on the Knicks will earn an additional approximately $770,000 for winning the title. Advertisement The team share for winning the NBA Finals is $9,078,000, and this will be split amongst the team. James Dolan and …

The Knicks’ championship celebration was cleared for takeoff. The party began on the ground in San Antonio, but continued high in the sky on the team’s chartered Delta flight to New York just hours after its first championship in 53 years. Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart pose with the Larry O’Brien NBA Finals trophy on board their flight home. Instagram/@jhart Members …

I must admit, the way this series has gone, I felt pretty certain heading into the fourth that San Antonio was going to lose this game. Simply put, the Spurs showed time and again that they could play well enough to hold a lead against the Knicks late in the game, but inevitably that edge would wither away in the …

It’s tremendously alienating. I’ve had plenty of time to reckon with this inevitable championship for the Knicks, not just a great team but the clear Team of Destiny for weeks now, but it’s still hard to swallow. I am not actually happy for the innumerable Knicks fans around me. I am not quite “happy for the city” either, a begrudging …

TORONTO — For the native New Yorker inside the Yankees clubhouse, Saturday night was a little different for Anthony Volpe than the rest of his teammates. The shortstop insists he always believed he would see the Knicks win a championship, though he also acknowledged that faith may have come in large part from his “childhood delusional fandom.” Advertisement But as …

Herald Celtics reportedly make trade offer for NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo Globe With Jalen Brunson leading the Knicks, the Spurs didn’t stand a chance The Comeback Knicks do it again, as Jalen Brunson leads New York to its first NBA title since 1973 Advertisement CelticsBlog Bill Simmons: “I think Boston is going to get Giannis.’ Mock Draft Dive: Is Joshua …

The New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs four games to one last night, overcoming multiple double-digit deficits along the way. While much of New York City and New Jersey celebrate the Knicks’ extinguishing New York’s long title drought across the Big Four sports leagues (stretching back to the Giants in 2011), Rutgers nation can take pride in seeing …

Jose Alvarado didn’t take long to take the Knicks’ NBA championship celebration back to the streets of New York. Less than 24 hours after a Game 5 win over Spurs in San Antonio to clinch the title, the Knicks guard was back in New York, celebrating his heritage in one of the city’s annual Puerto Rican Day parades. Advertisement He …

Add it to the trophy cabinet. After leading his Knicks to an NBA championship and being crowned Finals MVP, Jalen Brunson has received yet another accolade: being called the “greatest Knick of all-time” by Kendrick Perkins. Advertisement The ESPN analyst and former NBA big man, who won a championship with the Celtics in 2008, has been a longtime fan of …

I was a big fan of Roger Ebert. I suppose, in a way, I still am. Any time I watch a film that I know was made prior to April of 2013, I scramble to look it up after the movie is over, curious to see if our assessments are in the same ballpark. Advertisement About three-quarters of the time, …

It’s over. Officially, it’s over. The season ended 48 days ago for the Phoenix Suns, but now the league itself has reached the finish line as the NBA Finals have concluded. So what does that mean? It means the transaction season can truly begin. It means conversations can turn into negotiations, negotiations can turn into agreements, and front offices around …

Much has been made of where Jalen Brunson ranks in the pantheon of current NBA stars. References to his status as a “1A” player have been debated constantly over the past several years. As the champagne dries and the cigar smoke clears in the road locker room in San Antonio on Sunday, Brunson has proven the doubters wrong. A 45-point …

The Lakers are once again dealing with LeBron James summer drama, which has become an annual tradition at this point. However, with James being an unrestricted free agent, this isn’t an offseason where we can all just laugh at the passive aggressiveness. Come the start of free agency, LeBron will no longer be a Laker and action from both sides …

Shortly after the Knicks won their first NBA championship since 1973, captain Jalen Brunson had a simple message for people denying his status as a “1A” player. “I didn’t respond to them then, I’m damn sure not gonna respond to them now,” Brunson said. Advertisement Critics have often said Brunson isn’t a 1A player because he might not fit the …

Knicks Finals MVP Jalen Brunson couldn’t help but make a subtle dig at New York’s high cost of living while celebrating his latest victory in Texas early Sunday. In his post-game interview, Brunson, 29, was reminded that his two big college championship victories were both won in Texas, leading one reporter to ask him what he has against the Lone …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. As soon as the confetti hit the ground in San Antonio last night, it was time to look ahead to a new set of NBA Championship odds. Advertisement And while the Spurs fell short in these NBA Finals, the NBA odds board has …

Coming off one of the worst losses in franchise history, the Spurs faced elimination for the third time this postseason in Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks. At the Frost Bank Center, the crowd was split almost 50/50 between Spurs fans and Knicks fans. Nonetheless, like all five games of this series, the Spurs got …

In an interview with Italian journalist lacopo De Santis of Pianeta Basket, Luigi Suigo broke down why he decided to withdraw from the NBA Draft, as well as his choice in playing for Villanova in 2026-27. On his NBA Draft process: “We started this season at Mega Basket in Serbia thinking we could be very well prepared for this draft. …

The New York Knicks were able to get their franchise player in Jalen Brunson. Then came the hard part: keeping him healthy. That task is where the story of the 2025-26 NBA champion Knicks really begins. Advertisement We can point to 2022 — the summer in which the Knicks swiped Brunson away from the Dallas Mavericks — as the genesis …

As Jamal Murray’s shot clanked off the rim and the final seconds on the clock expired, the ball fell to Karl-Anthony Towns, who looked down at his own hand in amazement at what he and his Minnesota Timberwolves team had just done. For the first time in exactly 20 years, the Timberwolves were headed to the Western Conference Finals after …

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani shared his reaction to the viral rhyme that starts “My mayor’s Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish” and celebrates the New York Knicks ending their 53-year NBA championship drought. Mamdani, 34, was asked about the viral rhyme Sunday morning during an interview with MS Now’s Jacob Soboroff, hours after the Knicks overcame a 16-point deficit in …

New York Knicks. 2026 NBA Champions. Mic drop. On Jalen Brunson being a true No. 1 star: “I hope you guys will listen to me, he is a top-three MVP candidate. Everybody kind of mentions his name in passing, they don’t do it seriously enough — people say he’s too small, people say he’s a 1B or a 2B or …