NEW YORK — Maybe playing with fire isn’t the worst thing in the world. Maybe the Knicks are pyromaniacs, fire-bending, fire-breathing basketball animals who play their best basketball only after playing their worst. There were no worse minutes played for the Knicks than the six quarters from tipoff of Game 3 of the NBA Finals — the Knicks�...Read more

NEW YORK — In the first half of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, the New York Knicks tried to take matters into their own hands.

The NBA had declined to retroactively assess Victor Wembanyama with a flagrant foul for his Game 3 shove of Jalen Brunson, despite its head of officiating admitting the refs missed the call.

“He got away with one,” ...Read more

NEW YORK — The night started with a guarantee, got swallowed by 3-pointers, turned sour at the whistle and somehow ended with Madison Square Garden shaking beneath a celebration nobody saw coming.

Somehow, someway, the Knicks climbed out of a 29-point hole to stun the San Antonio Spurs, 107-106, Wednesday night at the Garden, and are now one ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The entire sequence was so smooth, so calculated, so precise that Olivia Miles looked like a pilot landing a plane in crosswinds.

She dribbled the ball through her legs, then behind her back, then swiped it quickly on a crossover. Her defender — the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 WNBA draft — drifted backward out of position...Read more

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift appeared at Madison Square Garden — where she’s expected to say “I do” next month — to watch the New York Knicks take on the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals Wednesday night.

Swift’s appearance comes amid reports that the “Welcome to New York” crooner and Kansas City Chiefs tight end ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Aces are the latest professional basketball championship team to not receive an invitation to visit the White House.

A team spokesperson confirmed the Aces were not extended an invite from President Donald Trump, who has not welcomed an NBA or WNBA champion during his administration.

The Aces are scheduled to play ...Read more

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