The New York Knicks have taken a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals after defeating the host San Antonio Spurs 105-104 on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
The Knicks now move back home to Madison Square Garden with a chance to sweep the Spurs and win their first NBA championship since 1973.<\/p>\n
Prices for the NBA Finals were already astronomical, but the “get-in” price is now well into the five figures for Games 3 and 4 after the Knicks’ 2-0 start, per TickPick.<\/p>\n
Knicks fans are starving for a championship. Their team hadn’t even made the NBA Finals since 1999, and that was a quick edit after a 4-1 loss to the Spurs in the championship round. <\/p>\n
Many Knicks fans weren’t even born or too young to remember that series, or the 1994 NBA Finals appearance against the Houston Rockets (4-3 loss).<\/p>\n
New York went through the wilderness for the better part of the 2000s and 2010s, with a host of terrible losing seasons when the team had no nope.<\/p>\n
Now the Knicks have gone through a prosperous four-year era led by Jalen Brunson, which has featured four trips to the second round, two to the Eastern Conference Finals and now one to the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n
They’re heavily favored to win the championship now, especially with a dominant homecourt advantage led by the team’s loud and passionate fans.<\/p>\n
Game 3 is set for Monday, and Game 4 will be Wednesday. Both will start at 8:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks have taken a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals after defeating the host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-719089","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\/719089","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=719089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}