If you thought the Knicks were top-heavy, think again.<\/p>\n
New York didn\u2019t win the NBA Cup because Jalen Brunson was the best scorer on the planet, which he\u2019s capable of being. The Knicks didn\u2019t win this because Karl-Anthony Towns shot the ball like we know he\u2019s capable of. Mikal Bridges wasn\u2019t spectacular. Josh Hart has had better games.<\/p>\n
The Knicks won because of heroics from the bench. Tyler Kolek, a second-round draft pick last season, scored double digits off the bench. Jordan Clarkson hit huge 3 after huge 3. Mitchell Robinson dominated Victor Wembanyama on the offensive glass.<\/p>\n
New York needed something from everyone to raise its first banner since 1973. Yes, the Knicks are going to hang a banner inside MSG because everyone on the team agrees that when you work for something, you honor that.<\/p>\n
The Knicks entered the conversation as legitimate NBA title contenders by beating the Spurs, who took down the almighty Thunder to have a spot in the final.<\/p>\n
New York doesn\u2019t need Giannis. It doesn\u2019t need to make a big trade. It needs to see if what it has is as real as it appeared tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you thought the Knicks were top-heavy, think again. New York didn\u2019t win the NBA Cup because Jalen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-353504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}