{"id":73096,"date":"2025-12-17T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:35:07","slug":"knicks-banner-never-wouldve-happen-without-mitchell-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73096\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks banner never would&#8217;ve happen without Mitchell Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Spurs are young, they\u2019re fast, their guards are dynamic athletes. For much of the first three quarters, they were making the Knicks appear slower and older.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even the typically menial task of bringing the ball up the court was sludge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the tide turned at the start of the fourth quarter in Vegas, where Mitchell Robinson\u2019s greatest asset was on full and dominating display.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Robinson defends against Victor Wembanyama during the Knicks\u2019 124-113 NBA Cup tourney-clinching win over the Spurs in Las Vegas on Dec. 16, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg for The New York Post<\/p>\n<p>The backup nabbed six offensive rebounds in just seven minutes of the final period, adding possession upon possession upon possession to the Knicks\u2019 offense. A miss meant little when Robinson was roaming the paint, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/16\/sports\/knicks-win-nba-cup-final-on-back-of-dominant-fourth-quarter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">124-113 Knicks NBA Cup victory<\/a> on Tuesday might be defined by this improbable sentence:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Spurs are young, they\u2019re fast, their guards are dynamic athletes. For much of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1557,21,9,11,1104,10,319,431,428,10221],"class_list":{"0":"post-73096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-mitchell-robinson","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73096","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=73096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}