\u201ccursed\u201d the Cavaliers on ESPN\u2019s \u201cFirst Take\u201d on Tuesday<\/a>, was shown receiving a jersey on the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
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Rapper Fabolous performed at halftime. \u00a0<\/p>\n
They were all there to see the Knicks begin the next stage of their quest to reach the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, as the franchise has not won it all since 1973.<\/p>\n
Dustin Hoffman attends the game between the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers during Game One of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals on May 19, 2026 at Madison Square Garden. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Knicks are coming off an impressive sweep of the 76ers in the second round, allowing star OG Anunoby to heal up the hamstring injury he suffered against Philly. Anunoby was back in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n
Cleveland, on the other hand, had to grind out a series against the top-seeded Pistons, losing Game 6 but cruising by Detroit in Game 7 on the road.<\/p>\n
Actor Michael Imperioli on celebrity row during Game 1, Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
The Knicks eliminated the Cavaliers in the first round of the 2023 playoffs, but both teams have very different rosters this time around.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The A-listers were out for the start of the Eastern Conference finals at Madison Square Garden. The usual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10095,1266,92944,222,92945,21,56784,80162,9,11,1104,10,319,2085,21537],"class_list":["post-237694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ben-stiller","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-lenny-kravitz","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-michael-j-fox","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-timothee-chalamet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237694","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=237694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}