{"id":1997196,"date":"2026-06-18T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1997196"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:00:26","slug":"this-week-in-sports-trivia-june-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1997196","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Sports Trivia: June 18, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perhaps not many NBA observers thought the New York Knicks would win a championship this season, but owner James Dolan certainly did.<\/p>\n

Whatever you might think of the guy, you have to give him credit for having the guts to fire Tom Thibodeau after a trip to the Eastern Conference finals, thinking he needed a new face \u2014 which turned out to be Mike Brown \u2014 to nudge his team over the hump.<\/p>\n

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Then, in early April, Dolan delivered a speech to the Knicks in which he essentially asked them to give him 10 weeks of the best basketball of their lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just a player thing. This is an entire organization thing,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working at this for years to get ourselves to this point. And now 10 weeks. Can you do it? Can you focus for 10 weeks? If you do that, at the end of that week, we\u2019re walking out of here with rings.\u201d<\/p>\n

While you contemplate which actor will deliver that speech as Dolan in the movie \u2014 there\u2019s going to be a movie now, right Ben Stiller? \u2014 dig in and tackle this week\u2019s quiz, which will touch on the NBA Finals and a whole lot more. Feel free to share your score in the comments and make sure to try out our daily Connections: Sports Edition<\/a>, too!<\/span><\/p>\n

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