{"id":706114,"date":"2026-06-15T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706114\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:38:10","slug":"should-spike-lee-get-a-knicks-championship-ring-kevin-hart-and-stephen-a-smith-say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706114\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Spike Lee get a Knicks championship ring? Kevin Hart and Stephen A. Smith say yes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should Knicks superfan Spike Lee get a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/nba-finals-new-york-knicks-san-antonio-spurs-game-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Knicks championship<\/a> ring? Comedian Kevin Hart thinks so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hart took to social media to say Lee deserves a ring, which is typically only given to players, coaches and executives on winning teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shoutout to Spike Lee. Give Spike a ring. Spike deserves a f****** championship ring, and I&#8217;m saying it here. Give Spike a New York Knicks championship ring,&#8221; Hart said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sports analyst Stephen A. Smith echoed Hart&#8217;s sentiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I completely support this for Spike Lee. No Knicks&#8217; fan deserves this more than him,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/stephenasmith\/status\/2066285512734769348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Smith posted on social media<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gettyimages-2280762878.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"2026 NBA Finals - Game Three \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Director Spike Lee reacts as referee Marc Davis #8 makes a call during Game Three of the NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on June 8, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Dustin Satloff \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Hart pointed to Lee&#8217;s long-standing courtside presence at Knicks games over the years. Lee has been a\u00a0season ticketholder since 1985. Considering the cost of courtside seats, it&#8217;s been estimated that he&#8217;s spent millions on tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has also traveled to various Knicks playoff games over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should Knicks superfan Spike Lee get a Knicks championship ring? Comedian Kevin Hart thinks so.\u00a0 Hart took to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,361,57088,99],"class_list":["post-706114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-spike-lee","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706114","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=706114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}