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Jordyn Brooks’s ‘Lucky’ Orange Knicks Handbag at Guggenheim Museum

Jordyn Brooks’s ‘Lucky’ Orange Knicks Handbag at Guggenheim Museum

Published by Jenni Sidey

Tired of winning yet? The Guggenheim in New York isn’t. Earlier this week, the museum announced that a “courtside icon” from the New York Knicks’s NBA Finals run is coming its way. Fashion designer Jordyn Brooks, who is also the fiancée of Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns, made a sample Tux Clutch Mini bag in orange to commemorate the Knicks playoff run. At the Finals, she carried the bag with her at every game except Game 3, due to Madison Square Garden’s “no-bag” policy that day. That game was the only one the Knicks lost. “I made this sample for the playoffs,” Woods told NBC talk show Today with Jenna & Sheinelle earlier this month. “I started wearing it, we won the game and it became a superstition.” In a video that went viral, Towns can be heard talking about the bag after the NBA Finals victory, saying that the bag has to go in “the Whitney or the Guggenheim.” Well, in an Instagram post earlier this week, the Guggenheim announced the handbag will go on view at …

A lifetime cheering for the Knicks taught me to embrace pilgrimage 

A lifetime cheering for the Knicks taught me to embrace pilgrimage 

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — As the Knicks faithful thronged Manhattan for the team’s championship parade Thursday (June 18), I marveled at the crowd — exultant, thankful, awestruck — and the many ways the Knicks title run feels like something sacred.  I have my own confession to make. I haven’t been to Lourdes. I haven’t circled the Kaaba. I haven’t walked the El Camino. But as of June 8, in the year 2026, I have been to Madison Square Garden for an NBA Finals game. Does a visit to the “mecca of basketball” make me a pilgrim? I’m a New York native, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve been a Knicks fan. I didn’t grow up feeling connected to religion. In the absence of sacred ceremony and identity, I filled the gaps with sports. The closest I came to seeing somebody walk on water was Christmas night in 1984 when, at the age of 10, I was there, at the Garden, witnessing Knicks great Bernard King score 60 points (40 in the first half alone). …

“Knicks in 5!”: NY fans predict first championship in 53 years

“Knicks in 5!”: NY fans predict first championship in 53 years

Published by Sam Flores

“Knicks in five! Knicks in five!” For days, the chant echoed across New York City. Fans shouted it on subway platforms, outside bars and restaurants, and on sidewalks awash in orange and blue. After the New York Knicks dropped Game 3 of the NBA Finals to the San Antonio Spurs, many diehard fans remained convinced the series would end in five games. On Saturday night, it did. The Knicks defeated the Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 to capture the franchise’s first NBA championship in 53 years, sparking celebrations that spilled from sports bars and living rooms into streets across New York City and beyond. As the final seconds ticked away, fans poured into neighborhoods across the entire New York City area. Videos posted to social media showed crowds chanting, singing and cheering in the streets, while impromptu block parties stretched across avenues in parts of the city. The victory represented far more than a basketball championship for many New Yorkers. The Knicks have long occupied a unique place in the city’s identity, carrying generations of …

N.Y. Gov. Hochul blasts Spurs and Ticketmaster for blocking Knicks fans from Finals

N.Y. Gov. Hochul blasts Spurs and Ticketmaster for blocking Knicks fans from Finals

Published by Sam Flores

She felt spurred to act. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul slammed Ticketmaster and the San Antonio Spurs for barring fans who live outside the San Antonio area from purchasing tickets to Game 5 of the NBA Finals. “Knicks fans finally get within one game of a championship and their reward is having their tickets canceled?” Hochul wrote in a post on X. “Thousands of New Yorkers bought tickets, booked flights, and made plans in good faith.” “Ticketmaster and the Spurs should reverse this decision and let the fans who bought those seats keep them. Until then, on behalf of Knicks fans everywhere, I’m calling foul,” she added. New York Attorney General Letitia James also called for the restrictions to be lifted. “My office is demanding the @spurs remove this policy and allow @nyknicks fans and anyone who can buy tickets for tonight’s game to be able to attend,” James said in a post on X. “Let’s go Knicks.” Ticketmaster said …

Exclusive: Mariska Hargitay and Samantha Ronson Talk Knicks Mania

Exclusive: Mariska Hargitay and Samantha Ronson Talk Knicks Mania

Published by Sam Flores

Call a New Yorker—any New Yorker—and ask them how things are going. They’ll all tell you the same thing, even the Staten Islanders and people from New Jersey who claim the city as their own, as if everyone there has slipped into some kind of Pluribus hive mind: We’ve got Knicks fever. And there ain’t no prescription for this disease. But, if you’re a Knicks fan living outside the city right now, the FOMO is almost unbearable. Because this is more than just a playoff run. It’s one of those rare cultural moments New Yorkers will still be talking about 30 years from now. “I wish you were here for the playoffs” my Uncle Jeff wrote me in a text message. “It’s electric here.” Yeah, me too, Uncle Jeff. Me too. Since I couldn’t be at the historic Game 4 victory over the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, I’ve spent today trying to piece together what it actually felt like inside the arena and out on the streets of New York. …

Jalen Brunson, ‘Captain Clutch,’ ices Game 1 for Knicks

Jalen Brunson, ‘Captain Clutch,’ ices Game 1 for Knicks

Published by Sam Flores

The San Antonio Spurs had taken a 1-point lead, with just more than two minutes to play in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the NBA Finals last night, when something remarkable happened. Two words: Jalen Brunson. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The Knicks point guard hit a corner 3-pointer to give them the lead, and then moments later, he hit a falling-down jump shot to ice the game. That’s why they call him Captain Clutch. We break down Brunson’s heroics below, and Mexico’s teenage sensation Gilberto Mora is today’s World Cup spotlight. For more NBA and World Cup coverage, check out the NBC News website. NBA Finals One of the most common refrains used to describe the NBA playoffs is that the game slows down. Not necessarily that the basketball becomes easier, but each minute is so tense, both teams are so focused and each possession is so tight that the winner is often decided by which team — or player — can …

The NBA Finals are a reward for long-suffering Knicks fans — and this broadcaster

The NBA Finals are a reward for long-suffering Knicks fans — and this broadcaster

Published by Sam Flores

When the NBA Finals tip off Wednesday, there will almost certainly be a who’s who of long-suffering fans in attendance who have waited an agonizing 27 years to see the New York Knicks back on basketball’s biggest stage. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. One of them will even be in the broadcast booth. ESPN’s Mike Breen will be the play-by-play man for his record-extending 21st straight NBA Finals this year. And for the first time, the New York native will be calling the team he grew up rooting for in the championship round. “I’d be lying if I didn’t say there are emotions,” Breen acknowledged to NBC News this week. In addition to his work for ESPN, Breen has called Knicks games locally for over 30 years. He began as the team’s radio announcer in 1991, and after a brief stint as the lead play-by-play man later that decade, he took over the position for good in 2004. “It’s not just that I was a …