{"id":200658,"date":"2026-04-17T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200658\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:56:07","slug":"trae-young-warns-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-over-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200658\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Young warns NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani over Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 17, 2026, 8:14 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trae Young is a public enemy in New York City thanks to his playoff explosion back in 2021 with the Atlanta Hawks that eliminated the Knicks in five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Fast-forward to 2026. The Knicks will play the Young-less Hawks in the first round of the NBA playoffs, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is already poking the bear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Mamdani was asked about the ticket prices for the series and he had this to say: &#8220;I think first, I would say that I blame Trae Young, and I think it&#8217;s always important to blame Trae Young.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ouch. But Young had a perfect retort on X (formerly Twitter): &#8220;Remember what happened the last time the Mayor of that City had my name in his mouth during a time like this. #DontBlameMeWhenItHappensAgain&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">What&#8217;s Young referring to here? That would be the time that then-mayor Bill de Blasio accused Young of hunting for fouls:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">We&#8217;ll see if things are different this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 17, 2026, 8:14 a.m. ET Trae Young is a public enemy in New York City thanks to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[679,9,56,63,65,64,11360,11361,4503,1935,1050,1334,950,4500,690,1047,949,1043,682],"class_list":{"0":"post-200658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news","14":"tag-sstssportsnba","15":"tag-sstsnnba","16":"tag-tagbasketball","17":"tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","18":"tag-taggovernment","19":"tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnba","22":"tag-tagnew-york","23":"tag-tagoverall-negative","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-tagzohran-mamdani","26":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200658","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=200658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}