{"id":254371,"date":"2026-06-03T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254371\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:17:08","slug":"new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-playfully-invites-victor-wembanyama-to-hearing-right-before-game-4-of-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254371\/","title":{"rendered":"New York mayor Zohran Mamdani playfully invites Victor Wembanyama to hearing right before Game 4 of NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to help out the New York Knicks<\/a>. It seems unlikely to work.<\/p>\n

Mamdani extended an invitation to San Antonio Spurs<\/a> star Victor Wembanyama<\/a> on Wednesday to attend his Commission on Government Efficiency Hearing from 5 to 8 p.m. ET on June 10. That happens to be the night of Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Spurs and New York Knicks.<\/p>\n

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While the meeting technically ends a half-hour before tip-off \u2014 and Mamdani requested Wembanyama stay there the whole time \u2014 something tells us the Frenchman will have a scheduling conflict.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama is currently the odds-on favorite to win Finals MVP, with the Spurs a -190 favorite to win the series.<\/p>\n

While the invitation is clearly a joke, the meeting is indeed real. Mamdani will be hosting a meeting centered on “streamlining government for small business and community organizations” at Fordham University next Wednesday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This isn’t the first step Mamdani has taken in response to the Knicks making the Finals for the first time since 1999 (when the mayor was 7 years old). He announced a repeal of bedtimes earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s one side of the political intrigue in New York’s NBA Finals. Another is President Donald Trump saying he had been invited by Knicks owner James Dolan to attend a Finals game<\/a>. He plans on attending Game 3, the New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to help out the New York Knicks. It seems unlikely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99132,97631,37011,9,24,11,1104,10,9138,10221,82],"class_list":["post-254371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-commission-on-government-efficiency-hearing","tag-finals-mvp","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254371","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=254371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}