{"id":73515,"date":"2025-12-17T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73515\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:30:15","slug":"knicks-make-surprising-decision-on-nba-cup-banner-after-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73515\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks make surprising decision on NBA Cup banner after triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 The Knicks are saying no to the NBA Cup banner, The Post has learned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After capturing Adam Silver\u2019s beloved tournament <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\">with Tuesday\u2019s 124-113 win over the Spurs<\/a>, the Knicks decided against a title banner because they\u2019re \u201cfocused on the bigger picture,\u201d a league source said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, they planned to celebrate the title before Friday\u2019s home game against the Sixers \u201cin a proper way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knicks celebrate winning the NBA Cup on Dec. 15, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg for The New York Post<\/p>\n<p>The decision was a surprise after coach Mike Brown pumped up his players in Tuesday\u2019s pregame speech by describing a banner in the MSG rafters as a reward. <\/p>\n<p>But the Knicks also entered this campaign with the \u201csingularly-focused\u201d goal of winning an NBA championship, not an NBA Cup title, and that became the overriding emotion as the team left Vegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll be the first NBA Cup winner to not hang a banner, with the Bucks and Lakers doing it previously. <\/p>\n<p>This can\u2019t be a popular decision in the league office, where Silver has prioritized his tournament as he attempts to beef up interest in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>But the NBA doesn\u2019t have control over banners inside arenas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before Tuesday\u2019s victory, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/12\/sports\/nba-cup-worthy-of-celebrating-in-madison-square-garden-rafters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knicks players were mixed<\/a> on whether they should hang one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adam Silver next to the NBA Cup. Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Mikal Bridges was against it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNah, I\u2019m OK,\u201d Bridges said, adding, \u201cI think you\u2019re searching for something even more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Robinson was gung-ho about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHang something,\u201d Robinson said, \u201cappreciate us for something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OG Anunoby and Josh Hart wanted a banner but were more lukewarm on the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can put a banner up,\u201d said Anunoby, who owns a 2019 NBA championship ring with the Raptors. \u201cBut no parade or something [like that].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knicks banners hanging in MSG Neil Miller\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Added Hart: \u201cI don\u2019t know. Yeah, why not? Obviously, it\u2019s a Cup, it\u2019s a title. It\u2019s something you want to win. So \u2014 yeah, hang a banner. Obviously, there are different standards for those with Cups and Finals. But whenever you want to go out there, you want to win and compete for a title, that\u2019s what you want to do. And you want to celebrate that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, they\u2019ll celebrate the NBA Cup championship \u2013 but without the banner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 The Knicks are saying no to the NBA Cup banner, The Post has learned.\u00a0 After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,9,11,1104,10,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-73515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-knicks","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73515","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=73515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}