{"id":354989,"date":"2025-12-18T00:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354989\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T00:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:39:09","slug":"report-knicks-wont-raise-nba-cup-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354989\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Knicks won&#8217;t raise NBA Cup banner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NBA Cup banner won&#8217;t fly at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Knicks are choosing not to raise a banner after defeating the San Antonio Spurs 124-113 in the midseason tournament final Tuesday, a source told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2001330749908324724\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanBegley\/status\/2001329107817156658\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an Begley of SNY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both previous winners of the NBA Cup, the Los Angeles Lakers and Milwaukee Bucks, raised banners immediately following their respective victories in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks are instead focused on winning the NBA Finals at the end of the season, according to Begley. However, the organization reportedly doesn&#8217;t want to minimize the NBA Cup triumph and will celebrate with fans Friday when the team returns home to host the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent Knicks banner to go up at MSG was for the 2012-13 Atlantic Division title. Their 1970 and 1973 NBA championships have also long been commemorated in the arena&#8217;s rafters.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NBA Cup banner won&#8217;t fly at Madison Square Garden. The New York Knicks are choosing not to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-354989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}