{"id":272735,"date":"2026-06-20T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272735\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:44:07","slug":"sports-culture-expert-discuss-impact-of-knicks-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272735\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports culture expert discuss impact of Knicks win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks winning the NBA championship will go down in basketball history, but could it also go down in New York City history as a larger-than-life moment that transcended the world of sports.<\/p>\n<p>Gina Antoniello is an expert on sports culture and sociology with the Tisch Institute for Global Sport at NYU. She joined Stephanie Simon for a discussion on how the Knicks brought New Yorkers together and the impact the team has had on the city\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks winning the NBA championship will go down in basketball history, but could it also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25,9,24,12,56,63,65,64,7777,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-272735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-stephanie-simon","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272735","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=272735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}