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SAN ANTONIO — Jalen Brunson scored 45 points in the New York Knicks’ NBA Finals-clinching Game 5 victory over the Spurs and was named Most Valuable Player of the series. Brunson, 29, the first cornerstone of the champion Knicks after arriving as the team’s marquee free-agent signing in 2022, averaged 32.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and…

SAN ANTONIO — As if a 53-year wait wasn’t long enough, the New York Knicks needed to be the conqueror of comebacks before they could again be kings of the NBA. Mission accomplished. The Knickerbockers, residents of the world’s most famous arena, an original NBA franchise founded in 1946, named for the city’s Dutch settlers,…

It took 53 years for the New York Knicks to win another NBA championship. Fifty-three years! Back when the Knicks won their second title in four years by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in 1973, Walt Frazier was making about $300,000 per season. To put that in perspective, the going rate for a two-way contract…

SAN ANTONIO — The New York Knicks are the champions of the National Basketball Association, and those absolutely needed to be the first dozen words of this piece. I never thought I would type them, and you bet I felt it in my hands when I did. For many years, I would have believed in…

SAN ANTONIO — The Spurs are close to greatness, but they aren’t there yet. They thought they could outrun inexperience, but OG Anunoby chased them down. In the end, the NBA Finals ended Saturday in a gentlemen’s sweep. In many ways, the Spurs are in the same spot the New York Knicks found themselves in…

An incredulous Jalen Brunson could not believe he hadn’t heard a whistle. And he let official Tyler Ford know it. Seconds earlier, with just over five minutes left in the third quarter of an NBA Finals Game 5 at Frost Bank Center that the New York Knicks eventually won to claim their first championship in…

On Monday, lifelong New Yorker Adrian Reyes will finally get the tattoo he has been envisioning during this historic Knicks playoff run: a pigeon donning a Jalen Brunson jersey. “There’s no better way to think about New York than, quite honestly, a pigeon,” Reyes says. “They’re everywhere.” And they are persistent — like the Knicks.…

Alex Jakubowski watched the New York Knicks erase another San Antonio Spurs lead Wednesday night, cherished the historic 29-point comeback victory and then climbed into bed. Before Jakubowski fell asleep, a joke about the game popped into his head. He typed it into his phone and shared it on X. The 23-year-old Knicks fan from…

Cleveland Cavaliers star James Harden is facing a misdemeanor charge of unlawfully carrying a gun inside a motor vehicle after police arrested him in Houston early Saturday morning, according to Harris County (Texas) District Attorney’s Office documents. Harden, 36, was arrested at 3:41 a.m. ET and was booked in the Harris County Jail at 4:57…

The Athletic has live coverage of Spurs vs. Knicks in Game 5 of the 2026 NBA Finals.  After violent incidents broke out and dozens of individuals were arrested in the vicinity of fan gatherings in New York following Games 2, 3 and 4 of the NBA Finals, the New York Knicks announced plans to hold…