May 26, 2026, 8:39 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
The New York Knicks<\/a> are going back to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. The Knicks swept the Cleveland Cavaliers, securing the series win on the road. It was a decisive victory for New York, with only the first game in the series being close as the Knicks overcame a 22-point, 4th-quarter deficit to win in overtime.<\/p>\n The postseason run has created a feverish excitement in New York, with celebrity super fans like Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan and Timothe\u0301e Chalamet all making appearances at games<\/a>.<\/p>\n New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, a rabid Knicks fan, had the most perfect social media response to the victory. Mamdani tagged the New York sanitation department and added just six words. “I’d like to report a sweep.”<\/p>\n The Knicks will play either Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> or NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> in the Finals. That series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 26, 2026, 8:39 a.m. ET The New York Knicks are going back to the NBA Finals for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[679,9,56,63,65,64,95564,11360,11361,4503,1050,62353,950,4500,690,4499,17418,1328,11882,33961,949,95399,16439,1043,682],"class_list":["post-244730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-accessfree","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sourcefor-the-win","tag-sstssportsnba","tag-sstsnnba","tag-tagbasketball","tag-taggovernment","tag-taghumor","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagnew-york","tag-tagnew-york-knicks","tag-tagoklahoma-city-thunder","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsan-antonio-spurs","tag-tagshai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtimothee-chalamet","tag-tagtina-fey","tag-tagzohran-mamdani","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244730","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=244730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}