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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 …

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Mike Brown didn’t seem to be the New York Knicks’ first choice to take over as coach last spring, when the team fired Tom Thibodeau and was linked to at least a half-dozen other candidates who held various jobs around the NBA. In the end, he clearly was the right choice. Advertisement Brown is now a …

And just like that, it’s next season in the NBA. The New York Knicks will be feted with a championship parade through the streets of Manhattan on Thursday after a postseason in which they successfully rallied from six double-digit deficits to win games in the playoffs, including all four of their victories in the NBA Finals against the San Antonio …

The Minnesota Timberwolves could make a big splash in the trade market this offseason as they look to try and return to the Western Conference Finals. Bleacher Report contributor Grant Hughes suggests a trade that would send Julius Randle, Donte DiVincenzo, Joan Barringer, and the No. 28 overall pick to the Washington Wizards for Anthony Davis. Advertisement “This one is …

Jalen Brunson was overpaid. That was the consensus when the Knicks signed him in free agency on June 30, 2022, inking him to a four-year, $104 million contract. It was the first time in NBA history a non-All-Star had inked a nine-figure contract in free agency. Advertisement The consensus was that he was given too much money. A franchise that …

Jalen Brunson’s run to becoming Finals MVP didn’t start when he dropped 45 points in a deciding Game 5 in San Antonio on Saturday night.It didn’t even start when he scored 30 in Game 1 of the Finals, leading the Knicks to a come-from-behind win that set the tone for the series. Brunson’s run to becoming a unanimous NBA Finals …

The New York Knicks had been here before. As Jalen Brunson and his band of not-so-merry men stood at the top of this year’s NBA finals, they confronted not just the San Antonio Spurs, their foe on the court, but the very idea of what the Knicks themselves – as a team, as a franchise, as a symbol of New …

Start spreading the news: The New York Knicks, fresh off the franchise’s first championship since 1973, aren’t favored to repeat as NBA champions. New York beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 on Saturday night to close out the NBA Finals in five games and win an NBA title for the first time in 53 years. Jalen Brunson scored 45 points …

Ten days. That is all that separates the Phoenix Suns from the 2026 NBA Draft. Sure, the draft technically begins in 9 days, and current FanDuel projections have BYU’s AJ Dybantsa going first overall. But the Suns won’t be involved in any of that. They don’t own a first-round pick. Instead, the Memphis Grizzlies will make the selection that would …

The 2026 NBA Finals finished up last night at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas, with the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks, which was making their first championship appearance since the 1998-1999 season, defeating the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs for the title. For the Knicks, it was their first NBA championship since 1973. Both teams have drafted players near and …

It took the New York Knicks 53 years to win another NBA championship, but New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani took very little time in announcing when the parade to celebrate the Knicks would take place. “Parade. Thursday. Manhattan,” Mamdani posted on X shortly after the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals …

The Tennessee Volunteers haven’t exactly been a school that you would typically associate with the NBA Draft, but that’s been changing in a big way under Rick Barnes for the past several seasons. Going back to Grant Williams, Admiral Schofield, then Keon Johnson and Jaden Springer…. eventually leading to Dalton Knecht, Chaz Lanier and Jahmai Mashack — Barnes has turned …

NBA Finals courtside tickets sold for more than $100,000 as the New York Knicks pushed for their first NBA championship since 1973, a feat clinched Saturday night. In Madison Square Garden, much of the front row was occupied by celebrities, including Taylor Swift, who attended Game 4. On Sunday, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who the Knicks defeated in the conference finals, …

The New York Knicks are NBA champions, and it’s still hard to believe it. The Knicks won their first NBA championship in 53 years by knocking off the San Antonio Spurs in five games on Saturday night. New York’s historic 29-point second half comeback in Game 4 will be remembered forever as one of the wildest finishes in league history, …

NEW YORK — This is something that spanned generations. This was 53 years of parents telling their children that, perhaps, this was the year. This was Ewing and Starks and Houston getting ever-so-close in ’99. This was icons like Carmelo and Camby who were players on good teams that could never be great teams. It was even Marbury and Stoudemire, …

Welcome back to the third edition of the Mock Draft Dive, where we’re looking at who draft pundits predict the Celtics to take in the upcoming draft. We are less than two weeks out from the draft, and with Giannis rumors swirling and the Finals close to their conclusion, everything feels up in the air. Do the Celtics even stand …

If we learned anything from the San Antonio Spurs in June, it’s that this is not the franchise we saw when Gregg Popovich coached there. The Spurs blew three games they should have won, and crumbled in the fourth quarter nearly every game, including in Game 5 Saturday night, which means that former Blue Devil Mason Plumlee will not get …

There are many lessons to be learned by the young, talented San Antonio Spurs as they went down in five games to the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals. While the Knicks and their long-suffering fans get to celebrate a championship for the first time since 1973, it’s the Spurs who will look back on this series and detail …

With the New York Knicks having won the 2026 NBA championship Saturday night, it’s a good time to look back at one of the great stars from the last Knicks teams to win a championship, Earl “the Pearl” Monroe. Monroe played college basketball for Clarence “Bighouse” Gaines at Winston-Salem State in the early 1960s, in the waning days of segregation. …

The NBA Finals have officially wrapped up, and the New York Knicks are NBA champions once again. After a 53-year drought, and a total of 19,312 days since the Knicks last hoisted the trophy, they can do it now. The city that never sleeps will certainly not rest after this historic playoff run. With only three losses and two series …

Thomas Bryant, fresh off a trip to the NBA Finals with Indiana, was meant to provide additional depth to the Cleveland Cavaliers frontcourt. He fell just short of that goal, but the underlying issue might have been outside of his control. All grades are based on our usual expectations for each player. Advertisement Regular Season Stats Bryant’s fit in Cleveland …

NEW YORK (AP) — It was bedlam on Broadway as the New York Knicks won their first NBA championship in 53 years on Saturday night, with exuberant celebrations marred by mayhem and violence, including gunshots in Times Square. Outside Madison Square Garden, a crowd watching on a big screen roared as the Knicks rallied from a 16-point deficit to beat …