{"id":254869,"date":"2026-06-04T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254869\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:14:08","slug":"knicks-fans-turn-nyc-into-street-party-after-game-1-finals-win-over-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254869\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks fans turn NYC into street party after Game 1 Finals win over Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Knicks<\/a> provided their fans with something to cheer about after taking Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals<\/a> from the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Wednesday, April 3.<\/p>\n

The Knicks beat the Spurs 105-95<\/a> and extended their postseason win streak to 12 consecutive games. It’s a franchise record.<\/p>\n

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The first two games of the series will take place in San Antonio<\/a>, but that didn’t stop Knicks fans from having a watch party, taking in the game at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

Knicks star Jalen Brunson<\/a> scored 19 of his 30 points in the second half and helped the Knicks outscore the Spurs 11-0 in the final 2:15 of the game.<\/p>\n

With the Knicks taking the 1-0 lead in the series, New York is now three wins away from securing its first NBA championship in 53 years.<\/p>\n

Here’s how fans celebrated the victory on Wednesday:<\/p>\n

Knicks fans crowd New York streets after Game 1<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Knicks fans ignite New York City after Game 1 Finals win<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks provided their fans with something to cheer about after taking Game 1 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4777,95118,222,9,1104,56,63,65,64,9416,9138],"class_list":["post-254869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-knicks-fans","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254869","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=254869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}