{"id":266654,"date":"2026-06-14T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266654\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:42:08","slug":"fans-celebrate-knicks-first-n-b-a-title-in-53-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/266654\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Celebrate Knicks\u2019 First N.B.A. Title in 53 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Fans Celebrate Knicks\u2019 First N.B.A. Title in 53 Years<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Fans Celebrate Knicks\u2019 First N.B.A. Title in 53 YearsNew York City erupted in celebration after the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the N.B.A. finals to win their first championship since 1973.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cIt\u2019s over. Knick fans, this is not a dream.\u201d \u201cWe did it. We hung in there and we brought it home, baby, New York.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s hard to articulate what this team means at this time to this city, but I never thought I would see anything like this.\u201d \u201cFeeling ecstatic right now. Amazing. It\u2019s a great feeling to finally get a championship after so many years.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a New York story, baby.\u201d \u201cI love my country, New York.\u201d \u201cI want to be a part of it. New York, New York.\u201d \u201cWe are the champions.\u201d \u201cJalen Brunson.\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s go!\u201d \u201cGo New York, go New York go. Go New York, go New York go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crowds celebrated the New York Knicks Game 5 win in Brooklyn on Saturday.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/13knicks-parade-bcwm-jumbo.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>New York City erupted in celebration after the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the N.B.A. finals to win their first championship since 1973.<\/p>\n<p>By Julie Yoon and McKinnon de Kuyper<\/p>\n<p>June 14, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Fans Celebrate Knicks\u2019 First N.B.A. Title in 53 Years transcript Back transcript Fans Celebrate Knicks\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4567,10663,78318,9,24,55,54,56,5538],"class_list":["post-266654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-basketball","tag-knicks","tag-nba-championship","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nycnew-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266654","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=266654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}