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Posted on 05/25/2026 8:51:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The New York Knicks are going to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. They swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals with a 130-93 victory in Game 4 on Monday, continuing a remarkable playoff run.
After falling down 2-1 against the Atlanta Hawks in the first round, New York has won 11 straight games and done so in dominant fashion: The team's +262 point differential is the largest in NBA history in an 11-game span, regular season or playoffs. The Knicks will face either the Oklahoma City Thunder or San Antonio Spurs in the 2026 NBA Finals, which will begin on June 3.
New York built a 29-point lead in the first half, was up by 19 at halftime and went on to win by 37. The Knicks are the first team in NBA history to win three closeout games by 20-plus points in the same postseason, having closed out the Hawks with a 51-point rout and finished their second-round sweep with a 30-point win against the Philadelphia 76ers. This is the first time in franchise history that they've swept back-to-back series.
Unlike Game 3, the clincher wasn't a wire-to-wire win for New York -- the Cavaliers took a six-point lead early -- but it was a more dominant one. The Knicks went on a 20-0 run in the first half and led by as many as 45 points in the second. When Cleveland cut it to 16 early in the third quarter, they responded with a 12-0 run. Defensively, the Cavs had a modicum of success in the halfcourt by turning to a zone, but they undercut that by repeatedly allowing the Knicks to find easy baskets in transition.
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Point Guard Jalen Brunson was named Eastern Conference Finals MVP and won the award unanimously. In four wins, he averaged 25.5 points and 7.8 assists shot 48.7% from the field. Brunson scored just 15 points in Game 4, but “created a lot of double-teams and we had a lot of guys get great looks because of the havoc that he caused out on the floor with the attention that Cleveland had to pay to him,” Knicks Coach Mike Brown said.
I think he’s from Cleveland. LoL. (Travis Kelce.)
Go Spurs!
Sorry Phil Jackson and Isiah Thomas!
The Knicks should thank Mark Cuban for making this possible.
Steve Kerr is proof there are DEI white people.
All his success was stolen from Mark Jackson and Mike Brown.
Without Mike Brown as the "real coach" of the Warriors, he's a failure.
“Clyde” Walt Frazier
Willis Reed.....
Regardless of what would be said about the opponents the Knicks beat, closing out all three playoff series on the road by the margins of 51 points (Hawks), 30 points (Pistons), and 37 points (Cavs) is pretty impressive.
Oops, not the Pistons, but the Sixers.
Point Guard Jalen Brunson
Another stupid move by the Mavs with Mark Cuban to get rid of him.
Danhauson deserves all the credit he’s the one that cursed the cavs
As a Pistons fan, they would have done the same to the Pistons.
Has Mamdani used this yet to say “communism works”?
Last NBA championship for the Knicks was 1973. 1973 was also the same year the Indiana Pacers won their second (and last) ABA championship, have not won since that time. The other longer NBA championship droughts include:
1970-Buffalo Braves/San Diego-Los Angeles Clippers-never have won a championship.
1968-Phoenix Suns-never have won a championship.
1958-St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks
1951-Rochester-Cincinnati Royals/Omaha-Kansas City-Sacramento Kings.
They will lose to Thunder/Spurs
Shout out throwback to the 1970s The Good Ole Days - Willis Reed and Walt Frazier - those guys were great.
Off-season of questions for the Cavs. Trade for Giannis? Sign LeBron as a free agent? Will be interesting to watch.
Giannis will probably go to the Lakers.
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