NEW YORK — The New York Knicks’ 53-year championship drought is over, which means their title defense has officially begun.

They enter the offseason with eight players — including all five starters — under contract for next season, and that doesn’t include Jose Alvarado, who holds a $4.5 million player option.

It’s an enviable ...Read more

NEW YORK — At age 23, Shaquille O’Neal was swept in his first trip to the NBA Finals. So was LeBron James at 22.

Those reality checks are regularly referenced as formative stepping stones for all-time greats who went on to win four championships apiece.

It’s something Victor Wembanyama, 22, can take at least some solace in after his ...Read more

Who said a small guard can’t lead a team to a championship in this NBA?

Jalen Brunson answered Saturday night with 45 points, a road closeout masterpiece and the trophy every Knicks star before him spent decades chasing.

Brunson led the Knicks to a 94-90 win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, securing the franchise’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Knicks’ first championship in 53 years was about so much more than the players, coaches, staffers and front office who made it happen.

It was just as much about the generations of New Yorkers who endured the painful years — those who stuck with the Knicks through all of the losing.

That much was clear to the fans who ...Read more

From start to finish, the San Antonio Spurs threw everything at Jalen Brunson. It didn’t matter.

The New York Knicks finished the first quarter of Saturday’s Game 5 4 of 22 from the field with six turnovers, a sloppy start to a potential NBA Finals clinching game.

The Spurs accrued a 10-point lead at that point, blitzing the Knicks with ...Read more

For 53 years, the Knicks had history.

On Saturday night, Jalen Brunson gave them the present.

The wait ended at Frost Bank Center, where the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs, 94-90, in Game 5 of the NBA Finals and won their first championship since 1973. It ended with Brunson at the center of everything, the way this era of Knicks basketball ...Read more

SAN ANTONIO — This is for Cole Aldrich and Lou Amundson. For Captain Lance Thomas and hitman Quincy Acy. It’s for Marcus Camby, Steve Novak, Quentin Richardson and the three draft picks sent to the Toronto Raptors for Andrea Bargnani. This is for Alexey Shved, Shane Larkin, Jose Calderon and Langston Galloway. For Ricky Ledo, Cleanthony ...Read more

Rookie point guard Olivia Miles drew plenty of player comparisons from Lynx teammates to start the season. The other half of her backcourt duo, Courtney Williams, dubbed Miles a “baby Chelsea Gray.”

But on Saturday night in Las Vegas, Miles’ late-game heroics weren’t enough to rally the Lynx past Las Vegas and Gray herself.

The ...Read more

SAN ANTONIO — Carmelo Anthony and Jeremy Lin cleared the air in private. Then they recorded an episode of the 7PM in Brooklyn show, on which the former Knicks teammates treated listeners to a tell-all of what transpired during Lin’s final days in New York before leaving the Knicks for the Houston Rockets in the summer of 2012.

Most notably,...Read more

Victor Wembanyama took the high road after someone appeared to throw an egg at him as he returned to a New York City hotel after Game 4 of the NBA Finals.

Videos circulating social media showed objects being hurled from a rowdy crowd in the direction of the San Antonio Spurs’ 7-4 superstar after the Knicks’ historic come-from-behind win on ...Read more

The stunning victory by the New York Knickerbockers over the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday gave ABC the most-watched NBA Finals Game 4 since 1998, the year of Michael Jordan's last championship with the Chicago Bulls.

Nielsen data showed an average of 20.9 million viewers watched the Knicks overcome a 29-point halftime deficit to top Victor ...Read more

NEW YORK — Madison Square Garden will host a Knicks watch party on Saturday night, with at least 3,000 fans expected to swarm outside the “World’s Most Famous Arena” to watch the potential NBA Finals clincher, officials said.

Thousands more Knicks fans will be gathering throughout Manhattan and the five boroughs, with their team one ...Read more

SAN ANTONIO — The Spurs know the feeling all too well — a feeling the Knicks want to avoid if they’re going to close-out the 2026 NBA Finals on the road and clinch the franchise’s first NBA title since 1973 in Game 5 at Frost Bank Center on Saturday.

The Spurs are only weeks removed from their most emotional victory of the year: Game 7 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Cameron Brink said she'd appreciate some grace. She really would.

Sparks fans should give her some, because where else is she going to get it?

Certainly not from WNBA refs. Not from opponents with more to play for than ever. Certainly not from the game itself; basketball moves fast, and a bummer can become a bust in a blink.

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SAN ANTONIO — Despite a fourth quarter littered with blunders in an epic 29-point collapse in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday, Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson remains confident in starting point guard De’Aaron Fox in the clutch.

“De’Aaron Fox will have the basketball in his hands at the end of the game tomorrow,” Johnson said ...Read more

Karl-Anthony Towns tried to explain it to OG Anunoby. He tried to tell him where the right hand belonged now, how one tip-in with 2.1 seconds left had already started traveling through New York sports memory, how a play can leave a player’s fingertips and belong to a city before the series is even over.

Anunoby, naturally, gave him almost ...Read more