{"id":257748,"date":"2026-06-06T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257748\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:36:08","slug":"spike-lee-gets-pope-mobile-treatment-in-brooklyn-after-new-york-knicks-take-nba-finals-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257748\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee gets \u2018Pope\u2019 mobile treatment in Brooklyn after New York Knicks take NBA finals lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Film director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/spike-lee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Spike Lee;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Spike Lee&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Spike Lee<\/a> received the \u201cPope\u201d mobile treatment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/brooklyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Brooklyn;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Brooklyn&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Brooklyn<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-york\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:New York;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York<\/a> Knicks won a second game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:San Antonio Spurs;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Antonio Spurs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:NBA;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NBA&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NBA<\/a> finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Knicks beat the Spurs 105-104 Friday (6 June), giving them a 2-0 lead in the championship series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lee, widely known for being a superfan of the New York basketball team, was filmed waving to fans out of the sunroof of his car in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, following the game. Crowds cheered and sang as he slowly passed through the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One fan noted on social media: &#8220;They\u2019re parading Spike Lee around Fort Greene post-Knicks win like he\u2019s the Pope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Knicks will face the Spurs for Game 3 on Monday (8 June) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/madison-square-garden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Madison Square Garden;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Madison Square Garden&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Madison Square Garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Film director Spike Lee received the \u201cPope\u201d mobile treatment in Brooklyn after the New York Knicks won a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,10663,9,24,63,9138,19549,36718],"class_list":["post-257748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-knicks","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-spike-lee","tag-the-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257748","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=257748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}