{"id":200358,"date":"2026-04-17T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200358\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:14:09","slug":"trae-young-trolls-knicks-in-response-to-nyc-mayor-mamdani-ahead-of-hawks-playoff-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200358\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Young Trolls Knicks in Response to NYC Mayor Mamdani Ahead of Hawks Playoff Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Trae Young is no longer a member of the Atlanta Hawks after being traded midseason to the Washington Wizards, but his past exploits at Madison Square Garden haven&#8217;t soon been forgotten in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ahead of Atlanta&#8217;s playoff matchup against the New York Knicks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani evoked the memory of Young, prompting a response from the star point guard:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In May 2021, former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio accused Young of foul-baiting:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">That&#8230; didn&#8217;t end well for the Knicks and their fans, as Young led the Hawks to a series victory in five games:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">New Yorkers may want to consider not mentioning Young&#8217;s name this time of year. Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trae Young is no longer a member of the Atlanta Hawks after being traded midseason to the Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-200358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200358","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=200358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}