{"id":66362,"date":"2025-12-10T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/66362\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:47:08","slug":"knicks-are-proving-to-be-oasis-in-a-new-york-sports-wasteland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/66362\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks are proving to be oasis in a New York sports wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s funny how these things happen, and funnier how quickly they can change. But in the moment these sentences are written \u2014 late in the afternoon of Dec. 9, 2025, maybe three hours before the Knicks and Raptors tip it off in the quarterfinals of the NBA Cup at Toronto\u2019s Scotiabank Arena \u2014 there seems to be one clear truth about New York sports:<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks are the oasis in the sporting city.<\/p>\n<p>They are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/08\/sports\/elusive-nba-cup-title-is-about-way-more-than-glory-to-knicks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the patch of calm<\/a> where everywhere else storm clouds are either raging or gathering momentum. This can all change on a dime, of course \u2014 or with the snap of an ankle, or the crackle of a knee, or even if things go particularly poorly beginning with an unfavorable outcome of the game with the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, all is Zen with the Knicks. Of all teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s funny how these things happen, and funnier how quickly they can change. But in the moment these&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[355,21,9,24,55,54,2683,6821,430,1104,320,541,321,56,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-66362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn-nets","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-new-york-giants","15":"tag-new-york-islanders","16":"tag-new-york-jets","17":"tag-new-york-knicks","18":"tag-new-york-mets","19":"tag-new-york-rangers","20":"tag-new-york-yankees","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-columnists","24":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66362","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=66362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}