The NBA Finals are set to begin Wednesday night between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks.
For the Spurs, it’s a chance to win their first championship since 2014. For the Knicks, the wait has been much longer. New York last reached the NBA Finals in 1999 and hasn’t won a title since 1973.
The excitement throughout New York is palpable, and the Knicks received a supportive message from Yankees superstar Aaron Judge, along with several members of both the Yankees and Mets.
“Oh, it’d be incredible,” Judge said when asked what a Knicks championship would mean for New York. “This team’s been getting close the last couple of years and has a great young core. You know, when the Knicks are doing well and winning championships, it helps us at the stadium too. The fans are pumped up — we hear it every game. We’re rooting for them. We’ve got their back.”
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The last professional sports team in New York to win a championship was the Liberty, who captured the WNBA title in 2024. The Yankees also reached the World Series just weeks later but fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The city has been waiting decades for another Knicks championship, and this appears to be a prime opportunity. If this current group is going to bring a title back to New York, now may be the time to do it against a Spurs team that is extremely talented but still young and relatively inexperienced on this stage.
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