{"id":694972,"date":"2026-05-26T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:00:09","slug":"best-knicks-team-basketball-world-celebrates-new-yorks-return-to-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694972\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Best Knicks team&#8217;: Basketball world celebrates New York&#8217;s return to NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-york-knicks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-knicks\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Knicks<\/a> are off to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, and that means bedlam in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>New York was sent into a frenzy on Monday night after the Knicks swept the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"cleveland-cavaliers\" data-league=\"nba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> following a 130-93 drubbing in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks are now just four wins away from the franchise&#8217;s third title and first since 1973. <\/p>\n<p>With all eyes on New York following the big win, here are some of the best reactions from around the basketball world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks are off to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, and that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-694972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694972","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=694972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}