{"id":698559,"date":"2026-05-27T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698559\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:29:08","slug":"donald-trump-says-i-think-ill-be-going-to-watch-new-york-knicks-in-nba-finals-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698559\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says \u2018I think I\u2019ll be going\u2019 to watch New York Knicks in NBA finals | NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump indicated on Wednesday that he plans to attend this year\u2019s NBA finals after the New York Knicks clinched their place<\/a> in the championship series earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Trump, a New York<\/a> native, has counted James Dolan, who owns the Knicks, the NHL\u2019s Rangers and Madison Square Garden, as a friend and a campaign donor in recent years. The president said he had been invited to the finals by Dolan and \u201cnumerous\u201d others.<\/p>\n

\u201cJim Dolan\u2019s [a] great guy, [he], as you know owns \u2026 Madison Square Garden. He\u2019s having a good year. Boy, what a team. They won all their games. They really have some great players,\u201d the president told reporters during a cabinet meeting. \u201cI think I\u2019ll be going to one of the games, yeah. I was invited by numerous people and Jim \u2013 and I think I\u2019ll be going. Great to see. The Knicks have really, they\u2019ve really suffered for years. They\u2019re doing right now very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times on Tuesday reported that, had the Eastern Conference finals series between the Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers continued, Trump planned to attend Game 5 on Wednesday in New York. The series instead finished in a sweep with the Knicks\u2019 130-93 win<\/a> in Game 4 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

The Knicks will play either the Oklahoma City Thunder or San Antonio Spurs in the best-of-seven-games finals. The Knicks are scheduled to play at home in Games 3, 4 and 6 of the series. Those games are pencilled in for 8, 10 and 16 June.<\/p>\n

Trump has made several appearances at sporting events since his reelection. Last year, he attended the Super Bowl<\/a>, soccer\u2019s Club World Cup<\/a> final, tennis\u2019s US Open<\/a>, the Daytona 500<\/a> and golf\u2019s Ryder Cup. This year, he has attended several golf events and college football\u2019s national championship game. The White House lawn will stage a UFC fight card<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n

A sitting president has never attended the NBA finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump indicated on Wednesday that he plans to attend this year\u2019s NBA finals after the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-698559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698559","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=698559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}