{"id":380354,"date":"2026-10-23T02:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380354\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T02:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:30:12","slug":"new-york-knicks-fan-couple-names-baby-knickson-fyve-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380354\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks fan couple names baby &#8216;Knickson Fyve&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792722612_246_7b0222a1-cdab-436e-8992-9dafa1c6501b_1788456846.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Matt Cudahy\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Caught up in the moment? Justified expression of superfandom? You be the judge. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">In August, New York City parents and lifelong Knicks fans Yvonne Gonzalez-Bradford and Vance Bradford named their newborn son \u201cKnickson Fyve\u201d in honor of the team\u2019s recent NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The name references how many games it took the Knicks to defeat the San Antonio Spurs in the seven-game series: Knicks in 5.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The viral rallying cry has appeared in arena chants, as a clever greeting among diehards and now on a birth certificate. <\/p>\n<p>This content is imported from instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">It&#8217;s not just the Bradfords who have been inspired by the Knicks ending their 53-year championship drought. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecityreporter.nyc\/2026\/10\/20\/knicks-baby-names-jalen-hart-fans-newborns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The City Reporter<\/a>, a local outlet, reported that data from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene showed that babies named Jalen more than doubled between March and early October, seemingly in honor of Jalen Brunson, the team&#8217;s captain and All-NBA point guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caught up in the moment? Justified expression of superfandom? You be the judge. In August, New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4567,10663,139473,18153,21,9,24,11,10,319],"class_list":["post-380354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-basketball","tag-knicks","tag-knickson-fyve","tag-mcnd","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380354","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=380354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}