{"id":257750,"date":"2026-06-06T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257750\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:38:10","slug":"marv-albert-tells-the-post-how-this-special-knicks-team-is-captivating-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257750\/","title":{"rendered":"Marv Albert tells The Post how this &#8216;special&#8217; Knicks team is captivating NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This type of noise went unheard for a long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For 56 years, to be specific.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decibel levels Knicks fans have reached at Madison Square Garden this postseason bring Marv Albert \u2014 the voice of the Knicks from 1967-2004 \u2014 all the way back to May 8, 1970, when, in the most famous moment in Knicks history, Willis Reed jogged out onto the court for warmups with his torn thigh muscle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Albert\u2019s commentary, saying, \u201cHere comes Willis, and the crowd is going wild,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/video\/how-knicks-great-willis-reed-had-lakers-in-awe-before-iconic-game-7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lives in Knicks lore<\/a>. The volume Knicks fans reached when they saw Reed emerge became the stuff of legend.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This type of noise went unheard for a long time.\u00a0 For 56 years, to be specific.\u00a0 The decibel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[72239,21,37011,56784,80162,9,1104,56,63,65,64,9138,319,428],"class_list":["post-257750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-marv-albert","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257750","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=257750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}