{"id":708639,"date":"2026-06-01T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708639\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:00:09","slug":"actor-and-knicks-superfan-john-turturro-recalls-the-knicks-of-years-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708639\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor and Knicks superfan, John Turturro, recalls the Knicks of years past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">The excitement around the Knicks has reached a fever pitch as the team prepares for its first NBA Finals appearance in over 25 years. New and long-time fans are desperate for a win, including actor and Knicks superfan, John Turturro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">The &#8220;O Brother, Where Art Thou?&#8221; and &#8220;Severance&#8221; actor said he&#8217;s been a fan since the 1960s. He remembers listening to sports commentator, Marv Albert, call games on the radio, and later sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden when opposing player, Shaquille O&#8217;Neal, nearly crushed Turturro and fellow Knicks fan, Spike Lee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Turturro joined WNYC host Michael Hill to recall Knicks teams of past years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The excitement around the Knicks has reached a fever pitch as the team prepares for its first NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[449,64,63,33046,2331,136,590,1025,44,1035,1591,28813,1195,85,344550,344551],"class_list":["post-708639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-arts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-classical","tag-culture","tag-music","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-npr","tag-podcasts","tag-public","tag-radio","tag-sports","tag-wnyc","tag-wnyc-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708639","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=708639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}