{"id":756669,"date":"2026-06-23T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756669\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:34:15","slug":"san-antonio-zoo-raises-knicks-flag-after-losing-bet-a-deal-is-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756669\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Zoo raises Knicks flag after losing bet: &#8216;A deal is a deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/untitled-june-23-2026-at-13.17.33.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK CITY &#8211; The San Antonio Zoo officially surrendered its skies to the orange and blue!<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The zoo hoisted the Knicks flag last week, making good on a cross-country NBA Finals wager with the Staten Island Zoo and Central Park Zoo after the Spurs fell short of the championship.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Video of the moment was posted to the zoo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZspEbWhFu-\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram page<\/a> with the caption,&#8221; A deal is a deal\u2026 See you next year?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Luckily, New Yorkers will go all summer without seeing a Spurs flag flying in their zoos.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Spurs and Knicks fans alike praised the zoo in the comments for holding up their end of the bet.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Much respect from a Knicks fan. I know it\u2019s tough,&#8221; one commenter said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Even the Staten Island Zoo commented with a Knicks fan clapping GIF.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">For the first time in 53 years, the New York Knicks became NBA champions earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for New York in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The team celebrated with a historic ticker-tape parade as millions of fans lined the streets of New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was sourced from the San Antonio Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/nba\/knicks\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK CITY &#8211; The San Antonio Zoo officially surrendered its skies to the orange and blue!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,14735,459,44,26073,7508,82,182],"class_list":["post-756669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-knicks","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756669","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=756669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}