{"id":169142,"date":"2026-03-20T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169142\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:11:08","slug":"st-johns-knicks-poised-to-turn-new-york-city-into-basketball-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169142\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s, Knicks poised to turn New York City into basketball party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before a recent spring training game somewhere in Florida, a baseball executive brought up the Knicks and St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York is still a baseball town,\u2019\u2019 the New York native said. \u201cBut it would be fun to see those two teams make some noise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I decided to break it to the exec that NYC is really a basketball town, despite the Knicks\u2019 lengthy history of disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees are certainly the bigger brand worldwide, but when the Knicks are good \u2014 really good \u2014 there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/18\/sports\/what-fans-should-appreciate-about-these-inconsistent-knicks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nothing that tops them around here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before a recent spring training game somewhere in Florida, a baseball executive brought up the Knicks and St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22381,3361,68679,21,9,1104,56,63,65,64,4780,319,428,3363],"class_list":["post-169142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-college-basketball","tag-march-madness-2026","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169142","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=169142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}