the Knicks broke their 53-year drought<\/a> and beat the Spurs to become champions.<\/p>\n\u201cUnbelievable,\u201d Volpe said Sunday morning at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n
Mikal Bridges (l.) and Timothee Chalamet (r.) pose with a New York Post cover after the Knicks\u2019 championship win on June 13, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Volpe, who was not even born yet the last time the Knicks had played in the NBA Finals, has enjoyed following along and going to games at the Garden as they went from the bottom of the barrel to legitimate contenders in recent years.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Volpe\u2019s teammates have had some fun with his Knicks fandom during this playoff run.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve maybe even been the funny mascot of the team, so everyone\u2019s enjoyed that,\u201d Volpe said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve just been enjoying it and taking it all in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaron Boone said he was watching Game 5 Saturday night before somehow falling asleep with six minutes left. So he spent Sunday morning watching SportsCentre and catching up on all the clips from the championship celebration.<\/p>\n
Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe. AP Photo\/David Dermer<\/p>\n
Yankees manager Aaron Boone. AP Photo\/Scott Marshall<\/p>\n
\u201cJust to see that team and the way they came together, the amazing run they went on in the postseason, that team will be immortalized,\u201d Boone said. \u201cJust excited for them and excited for a lot of people in New York that it\u2019s been a long time coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like Volpe, Boone said he has gotten to know some of the Knicks in recent years, including Finals MVP Jalen Brunson, who threw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium before a 2024 game.<\/p>\n
And while he said it was still too early in the season to let his mind fully wander to what it might be like if the Yankees can follow the Knicks\u2019 cue and finish the job in the playoffs, Boone drew some takeaways from their run.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a great example of a team that\u2019s certainly faced more than their share of adversity and questions and all that,\u201d the manager said. \u201cI think their mental toughness and championship mettle ended up winning the day and obviously getting them to the top of the mountain this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cFun to see that. Because each one of those guys, to varying degrees, went through rough moments, getting beat on at different points for different reasons. And they all persevered through it. It\u2019s not an easy thing to do. That\u2019s why they\u2019re champions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 For the native New Yorker inside the Yankees clubhouse, Saturday night was a little different for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35539,4459,20,21,37011,56784,80162,9,11,1104,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-266680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaron-boone","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-mlb","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266680","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=266680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}