{"id":713366,"date":"2026-06-03T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713366\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:11:12","slug":"loathed-owner-of-new-york-knicks-might-finally-seal-a-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713366\/","title":{"rendered":"Loathed owner of New York Knicks might finally seal a title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Wilhelm, Sujeet Indap and Antoine Gara<\/p>\n<p>Jun 4, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>New York is buzzing with excitement as its Knicks basketball team returns to the NBA Finals this week, unifying long-suffering fans behind a team that last played for a championship in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The euphoria has also provided a reprieve of sorts for James Dolan, the icy businessman who inherited the team from his father and has long been the target of derision for everything from its long-running futility to his penchant for banning detractors from Madison Square Garden arena.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benjamin Wilhelm, Sujeet Indap and Antoine Gara Jun 4, 2026 \u2013 5.00am New York is buzzing with excitement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-713366","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\/713366","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=713366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}