{"id":333882,"date":"2025-12-09T05:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333882\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:06:10","slug":"elusive-nba-cup-title-is-about-way-more-than-glory-to-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333882\/","title":{"rendered":"Elusive NBA Cup title is about way more than glory to Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks have reached this point twice previously. Each time, they lost in the quarterfinals of the opening two installments of the NBA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he isn\u2019t dwelling on the defeat to Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2023 or the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/11\/sports\/trae-young-brutally-trolls-knicks-with-logo-dice-roll\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">infamous Trae Young dice roll<\/a> on the MSG midcourt logo a year ago, Jalen Brunson understands the consequences of falling again Tuesday night in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>No win, no Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dice roll is not in my mind. The past is the past. But there has to be a level of urgency,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a series. This is one game. This is win-or-go-home, so we got to be ready to go. There is no easing into this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks have reached this point twice previously. Each time, they lost in the quarterfinals of the opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,19284,27805,459,2901,82,2089,10676],"class_list":{"0":"post-333882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-jalen-brunson","11":"tag-josh-hart","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-toronto-raptors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}