{"id":39875,"date":"2025-11-14T20:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39875\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:59:05","slug":"the-25-best-new-york-athletes-of-the-century-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39875\/","title":{"rendered":"The 25 best New York athletes of the century, ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last quarter century of New York sports has been enough time for us to witness an incalculable number of captivating moments, brilliant athletes, elite teams and, unfortunately, embarrassing debacles.<\/p>\n<p>Given that, The Post surveyed its staff, tallied everyone\u2019s votes and assembled our rankings involving the century\u2019s first 25 years of New York athletes, teams, debacles and moments.<\/p>\n<p>We start our series today with the list of the 25 Best Athletes. Hopefully you\u2019ll follow along and also let us know your own rankings via our social channels.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll do it all again in 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last quarter century of New York sports has been enough time for us to witness an incalculable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10094,23201,4089,23202,20,21,9,2683,430,1104,8915,320,541,321,22,539,56,63,65,64,319,428],"class_list":["post-39875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-aaron-judge","tag-derek-jeter","tag-eli-manning","tag-mariano-rivera","tag-mlb","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nfl","tag-nhl","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875","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=39875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}