{"id":735490,"date":"2026-06-14T06:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735490\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:40:28","slug":"knicks-really-finally-are-back-on-top-of-basketball-after-53-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735490\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks really \u2014 finally \u2014 are back on top of basketball after 53 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 At the end, the son sought out the father, and the father embraced the son, and that wasn\u2019t just appropriate for the Brunsons. In that moment \u2014 the first in 53 years, one month, and three days when the Knicks were officially NBA champions \u2014 generations came together and hugged, roared, wept, toasted. Here. And everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>In an apartment in Brooklyn, a son poured two glasses of Johnnie Walker Black: one for himself, one for his late father. In all the precincts in and around the city, fathers and mothers who introduced The City Game to their sons and daughters embraced if they were in the same room, called if they weren\u2019t, and their words came out as haltingly as Jalen Brunson\u2019s did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in awe,\u201d Brunson said.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s in awe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 At the end, the son sought out the father, and the father embraced the son,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,20455,87780,20449,590,2656,13799,288644,1666,9275,85,735],"class_list":["post-735490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-josh-hart","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-og-anunoby","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735490","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=735490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}