{"id":713283,"date":"2026-06-03T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713283\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:18:15","slug":"wwes-danhausen-reveals-price-to-keep-knicks-uncursed-for-nba-finals-in-video-to-stephen-a-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713283\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE&#8217;s Danhausen Reveals Price to Keep Knicks Uncursed for NBA Finals in Video to Stephen A. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">WWE Superstar Danhausen laid out his demands to ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith on Wednesday with regard to keeping his curse against the New York Knicks lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">During an appearance on First Take, Danhausen called for Smith to give him his own TV show, more money and courtside seats, and he gave Smith until tip-off of Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals between the Knicks and San Antonio Spurs to come through:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Smith was dismissive of Danhausen&#8217;s request, noting that he would not give in to blackmail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Danhausen has been an unofficial mascot of sorts for the Knicks throughout their playoff run due to the apparent impact of his curses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After initially cursing the Knicks to spite Smith, the Knicks fell behind 2-1 to the Atlanta Hawks in their first-round playoff series. Danhausen <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/danhausen-uncurses-new-york-knicks-nba-history-finals-mvp-1236606793\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">uncursed<\/a> them at that point, and the Knicks have subsequently won 11 games in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">New York will look to make it 12 on Wednesday night when it goes on the road to face the Spurs in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE Superstar Danhausen laid out his demands to ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith on Wednesday with regard to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-713283","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\/713283","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=713283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}