NEW YORK — A scaled-down watch party outside Madison Square Garden for the Knicks and Spurs’ Finals Game 4 was abruptly canceled late Wednesday afternoon, after the Garden’s owner, James Dolan, bizarrely pulled the plug on the event.

Dolan, speaking on WFAN, announced that the watch party, which was to be ticketed this time, was off. He ...Read more

NEW YORK — Victor Wembanyama will enter Game 4 at Madison Square Garden with his postseason flagrant-point total unchanged, leaving the Knicks to answer the NBA’s ruling on the floor, the only place left.

The league will not assess additional punishment to the San Antonio Spurs star for his first-quarter shove of Jalen Brunson during Game 3...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Really, there wasn’t anything that Mike Gansey could have said that would have changed the expectations for the 76ers.

Which is good, because he didn’t say much.

Gansey’s first news conference as the 76ers’ president of basketball operations offered little in the way of detail about the team’s path forward. He ...Read more

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — A few years ago, when Jonquel Jones was in the midst of her rise to stardom, she was well aware that she was in a unique place and time.

The Connecticut Sun, she said in an interview with The Hartford Courant in 2019, was “not an afterthought. … This is what they wanted here.” It was not tied to an NBA team, it was ...Read more

NEW YORK — Victor Wembanyama caught the first lob. Stephon Castle made the last free throws. In between, the San Antonio Spurs gave the New York Knicks just enough chances to remind everyone how young they still are.

Game 3 didn’t make San Antonio a finished product.

It just showed the Spurs are young, flawed and already good enough to win...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Shortly after Tim Connelly took over as Timberwolves president of basketball operations in May 2022, he made two major moves. He gave Karl-Anthony Towns, who was coming off an All-NBA season, a maximum four-year contract extension that paid him $49 million in the first year of the deal (which was last season) and can pay him $61 ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Mamdani announced Tuesday that the city has approved a ticketed watch party for Game 4 of the NBA Finals outside Madison Square Garden.

“We’re back outside the Garden,” Mamdani posted on Twitter. “We have approved a ticketed MSG watch party for Game 4. More details soon. As we prepare to watch together, let me be ...Read more

NEW YORK — San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama was surprised to hear Knicks fans attacked Spurs fans following their Game 3 loss of the 2026 NBA Finals late Monday night.

“Fans got attacked?” he asked. “I didn’t know that.

“My thoughts of course is that we can’t forget it’s a game. We’re just playing a game out there. I ...Read more

NEW YORK — If it’s hard to believe Karl-Anthony Towns hasn’t scored a single, solitary point in any fourth quarter through three games of the 2026 NBA Finals, then the Knicks successfully blinded you with their 13-game playoff winning streak.

Because when the Knicks look good, the ball is hopping, bodies are moving, and the final box ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump reportedly plans to skip Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden after getting roundly booed by New York Knicks fans before Monday night’s deflating Game 3 loss.

The president has “scheduling conflicts and obligations” that will prevent him from attending the game Wednesday as the Knicks seek ...Read more

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks were in position to take a commanding 3-0 NBA Finals series lead over the San Antonio Spurs with stellar play of OG Anunoby and the rest of New York’s supporting cast.

Anunoby was the star of the night, and the Knicks’ consistent contributor on a night Jalen Brunson once again started slow out the gate (2 of...Read more

NEW YORK — Mike Brown calls it a “bunker mentality.” It’s something he learned from longtime and Hall of Fame-bound San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich as an assistant in the early 2000s.

“When you get to this level,” Brown said, “or you’re playing in a bigger market especially, there’s going to be a lot of noise.”

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NEW YORK — For many of the New York Knicks fans who attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night, buying tickets was a waiting game.

The first Finals game at Madison Square Garden in 27 years commanded historic ticket prices — as in, what you’d expect to spend on a used car or several months of New York City rent — but some ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump, the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game, got a chilly reception from the home crowd in Monday’s Game 3 matchup between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.

Prior to tip-off, Trump was shown on the jumbotron during the national anthem, which was met by a large chorus of boos from the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Victor Wembanyama knew his misses and miscues cost the San Antonio Spurs in Game 2 of the NBA Finals.

He was uncharacteristically passive for much of that game, while his back-breaking bad pass and foul of Jalen Brunson in the waning seconds set up an all-time-dramatic New York Knicks victory.

“Am I going to regret it? Yes, of ...Read more

NEW YORK — There were 66 New York Police Department vehicles and two garbage trucks acting as barriers parked around the corner of 33rd Street and 8th Avenue. Forty-three of the vehicles, including 35 motorcycles, were lined up on 33rd alone.

Both streets were locked down, and it wasn’t because John Turturro was inside Madison Square Garden...Read more

CHICAGO — As condolences pour in for Stacey King, officials say it could take weeks to confirm the Chicago Bulls broadcaster and former player’s cause of death.

King was pronounced dead just after 8:30 a.m. Sunday in the 500 block of Bonnie Brae in west suburban River Forest, where he lived, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s...Read more

President Donald Trump’s national approval ratings are historically low for any number of reasons we won’t detail here. I try very hard to “stick to sports” in this space, though Trump himself makes it difficult by constantly foisting himself into the realm of athletes and games — as he is doing right now.

What we are reminded of ...Read more

NEW YORK — The area around Madison Square Garden was locked down starting at 4 p.m. Monday to thwart any threats as President Donald Trump watches the Knicks play the NBA Finals Game 3 — laying the groundwork for massive gridlock and disruptions for New Yorkers.

A frozen zone is being enforced from West 30th to West 35th streets between ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani revealed that he paid $1,000 for a standing-room-only ticket to see the New York Knicks play their first Finals home game on Monday night.

Madison Square Garden sells off a limited number of the seatless tickets at a slightly lower price — though for this game, ticket prices have skyrocketed, with the ...Read more