{"id":12819,"date":"2025-10-23T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12819\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:06:09","slug":"andrew-cuomo-bolts-for-knicks-opener-minutes-after-nyc-mayoral-debate-and-sits-next-to-eric-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12819\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo bolts for Knicks opener minutes after NYC mayoral debate \u2013 and sits next to Eric Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foes turned friends \u2014 at least when the New York Knicks are playing.<\/p>\n

Independent NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo rushed from Long Island City to Madison Square Garden after Wednesday night\u2019s debate wrapped<\/a>, to sit courtside with none other than incumbent mayor Eric Adams, who dropped out of the race last month.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Mayor Eric Adams greets Independent candidate former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at Madison Square Garden. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\"NewCuomo rushed from Long Island City to Madison Square Garden after Wednesday night\u2019s debate wrapped, to sit courtside with Adams. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cuomo was seen embracing Adams when he arrived at his seat and even flashed a thumbs-up alongside hizzoner.<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s official X account<\/a> said he arrived at the game in time for the second half with the Knicks leading the Cavaliers 55-50.<\/p>\n

The former governor used his opening remarks in Wednesday\u2019s debate to say \u201cGo Knicks, Go Knicks, Go Knicks\u201d before going toe-to-toe with Democratic frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.<\/p>\n

Mamdani,<\/a> who faced a barrage of attacks from Cuomo<\/a>, also used his opening remarks to address the Knicks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know you\u2019d rather be watching the Knicks,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foes turned friends \u2014 at least when the New York Knicks are playing. Independent NYC mayoral candidate Andrew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,4117,81,222,57,9,11,1104,10,563,87,319,58],"class_list":["post-12819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-debates","tag-eric-adams","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}