{"id":44738,"date":"2025-11-19T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44738\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:06:09","slug":"25-sports-stars-you-probably-forgot-played-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44738\/","title":{"rendered":"25 sports stars you probably forgot played in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post recently unveiled the debut piece of its 25 for 25 series, in which staff members voted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/14\/sports\/the-25-best-new-york-athletes-of-the-century-ranked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top 25 New York athletes of the past 25 years<\/a>, headlined by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/14\/sports\/25-for-25-how-derek-jeter-became-synonymous-with-this-quarter-century-of-new-york-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Jeter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those players are unforgettable, having made significant contributions to some of the most enduring teams in the city\u2019s history. But it\u2019s also amazing to think of how many stars came to New York during that time and quickly left, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HUJFBBSfoug\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">erasing the experiences from our minds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I looked through a quarter-century of rosters for each of the area\u2019s NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL teams (sorry, Devils) and put together the most forgettable New York tenures of the most notable names in sports. To be eligible, one must have played in only one season with the team and either been part of a losing campaign or made minimal contributions to the team, a la the Magic\u2019s Patrick Ewing, the Rays\u2019 Wade Boggs and the Seahawks\u2019 Jerry Rice.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Canseco (2000 Yankees)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Post recently unveiled the debut piece of its 25 for 25 series, in which staff members voted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22381,9,11,430,1104,320,10,321,4780,319,428],"class_list":["post-44738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-jets","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44738","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=44738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}