{"id":694841,"date":"2026-05-26T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694841\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:28:08","slug":"garden-party-new-york-fans-invade-cleveland-as-knicks-try-to-sweep-cavaliers-and-make-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694841\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden party: New York fans invade Cleveland as Knicks try to sweep Cavaliers and make NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The Knicks and their fans threatened to turn Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals into a Garden party.<\/p>\n<p>Madison Square Garden, that is.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cavaliers-donovan-mitchell-712293f24b29902b29711c6ba430eeac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York one win<\/a> from sweeping the Cleveland Cavaliers and earning its first NBA Finals appearance since 1999, thousands of Knicks fans \u2014 and some of their well-heeled celebrity backers \u2014 descended upon Rocket Arena on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the decibel level and \u201cLet&#8217;s Go Knicks!\u201d chants during pregame warmups, New York fans seemed to outnumber Clevelanders, who are holding out hope that the Cavs can somehow overcome an 0-3 deficit in the series. That&#8217;s never happened in the NBA as teams are a collective 164-0 when leading 3-0 in a best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n<p>Among the New York A-list celebrities on hand were actor Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, director Spike Lee, comedian Tracy Morgan and rappers along with former Knicks players Walt \u201cClyde\u201d Frazier and Allan Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavs, who hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/knicks-cavaliers-taylor-swift-b7bcad6e7a9deff4646b6a19bf256b7f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pop music superstar Taylor Swift<\/a> and her fiance, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in Game 3, were represented by rapper Machine Gun Kelly. Cleveland also brought back beloved guard Matthew Dellavedova, a member of its 2016 championship team for some karma.<\/p>\n<p>Knicks fans were boisterous during New York&#8217;s win in Game 3, and Cavs guard Donovan Mitchell lamented that was mostly because Cleveland gave its towel-waving crowd nothing to cheer about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m from New York, this doesn\u2019t shock me. They do it in every arena,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cThat\u2019s how Knicks fans are. I was one back in the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The Knicks and their fans threatened to turn Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,480,590,31647,2656,13799,1628,85],"class_list":["post-694841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrity","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-s","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694841","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=694841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}