{"id":477735,"date":"2026-06-15T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/477735\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:29:08","slug":"knicks-to-appear-on-jimmy-fallons-tonight-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/477735\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks to Appear on Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe New York Knicks<\/a> are taking over \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d with a dedicated episode on Monday.<\/p>\n

\n\tFresh off their championship victory, the team\u2019s starting five \u2014 Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Josh Hart, OG Anunoby and Mikal Bridges \u2014 will join Jimmy Fallon to celebrate their miraculous NBA finals run and taking home the franchise\u2019s first title in 53 years.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe entire Knicks roster, head coach Mike Brown and other surprise guests will make appearances in the special episode. And Wu-Tang Clan, who headlined the Game 4 halftime show at Madison Square Garden, will take the stage for a musical performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to NBC, the entire \u201cTonight Show\u201d studio audience will be comprised of \u201cdie-hard Knicks fans who were unable to attend the Finals in person.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe previously announced guests for the June 15 episode \u2014 Lin-Manuel Miranda, Britt Lower, Rhett & Link and comedian Zarna Garg \u2014 will be rescheduled, per the network.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew York City exploded with joy on Saturday night, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets after the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA finals. The game followed a championship series filled with down-to-the-wire face-offs won by edge-of-your-seat buzzer beaters. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard to describe the energy in the city this past month,\u201d wrote Variety\u2018s Marlow Stern in a celebratory column<\/a>. \u201cFire trucks honking. Strangers hugging and high-fiving in the streets. Skyscrapers lit up in orange and blue. Watch parties left and right. New York City has\u00a0never\u00a0been more united in jubilation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks are taking over \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d with a dedicated episode on Monday. Fresh off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,28391,111,139,69,36277,437],"class_list":["post-477735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}