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The defending champs have been dethroned. Facing a hostile crowd in Oklahoma City, the San Antonio Spurs showed no sign of nerves, using a balanced attack, excellent 3-point shooting and a stingy defense to pull out a 111-103 victory in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals Saturday night. The Spurs now advance to the NBA Finals for a chance to win their sixth NBA championship — and the first since 2014. They’ll have to get past the New York Knicks to do so, with Game 1 set for Wednesday in San Antonio. Victor Wembanyama, named the Western Conference finals...

Gov. Kathy Hochul tried to dunk on President Trump over his New York Knicks fandom — but ended up throwing up a brick instead. The Democratic governor inadvertently showed she wasn’t exactly bleeding orange and blue when she misstated the team’s most recent championship in an embarrassing self-own when a reporter asked her what she thought of the GOP leader saying he was a lifelong Knicks fan.ages “I’d ask him to name the starting lineup from the 1993 championship team and see how he does,” Hochul said at an unrelated press conference in the Big Apple. The Knicks last won...

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...

In a highly physical Game 4 between the New York Knicks and the Detroit Pistons, in which seemingly so many contact-filled plays weren't resulting in fouls, officials acknowledged after the fact that one huge one was missed on the final play. With the Knicks leading by one, Detroit's Tim Hardaway Jr. drew contact from New York's Josh Hart as Hardaway went up for the potential winning shot with 0.3 seconds remaining. The 3-point attempt misfired, and the sold-out crowd awaited a foul call. It never came, incensing the Pistons bench and fans. The Knicks, meanwhile, escaped with a 94-93 victory...

CNN - After the Philadelphia 76ers’ Wells Fargo Center was overrun with New York Knicks fans last week, the team’s ownership has taken action to guarantee it doesn’t happen again. Sixers managing partners Josh Harris and David Blitzer, along with limited partner David Adelman and Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin, have purchased over 2,000 tickets for Philadelphia’s pivotal Game 6 on Thursday of its first-round series against New York to firmly establish a home-court advantage. Sunday’s Game 4 took place in Philly, though traveling Knicks fans packed into the arena and made it feel like anything but a home game for...

Liberal billionaire-scion Alex Soros and girlfriend Huma Abedin were spotted sitting courtside Saturday night to watch the Knicks take on the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Soros, the 38-year-old son of billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, Instragmmed Jalen Brunson slapping the ball away from the 76ers’s Isaiah Hartenstein during the game’s tipoff as his older flame sat beside him. Soros, who took over his father’s $25 billion empire last year, was “on his phone the entire time and she looks uninterested,” a witness told The Post.

Well, at least the New York Knicks tried. The 2010 recruitment video that the team put together in an effort to recruit LeBron James to the Big Apple leaked Tuesday courtesy of Pablo Torre, who shared parts of it on his podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out. It includes no shortage of star power from the likes of fictional characters Tony and Carmelo Soprano, a future president in Donald Trump, actors Chris Rock and Robert De Niro, Knicks fan and director Spike Lee, and many more celebrities: There is certainly some irony to Trump, of all people, being included in a...

Willis Reed, the heart and soul of the Knicks’ most recent NBA championship teams, and the man who gave New York City sports one of its most iconic moments, died Tuesday, The Post has confirmed. He was 80.

Knicks legend and current broadcaster Walt Frazier has entered into COVID-19 protocols, joining three of their players, according to a source. He is expected to miss 10 days as the virus keeps spreading within the organization. Frazier turned 76 last March. He was recently on a holiday hiatus around Thanksgiving but was on the San Antonio-Indiana-Toronto road trip where the Knicks seemed to have picked up the virus. In addition to Frazier, the Knicks have three players out due to COVID-19 – Obi Toppin, RJ Barrett and Quentin Grimes. The rookie Grimes tested positive on Tuesday, according to a source.

Knicks owner James Dolan is making up for lost time — and revenue. After announcing the Knicks would go from 1,980 fans to 13,000 for the first round of the playoffs, the Knicks are raising the number again after high demand to a capacity of 15,000 — highest in the NBA. It will be among the largest indoor crowds for a sporting event in North America since the pandemic. Games 1 and 2 against the Hawks are slated for Sunday and Wednesday, and they already have sold out after going on sale Wednesday. By contrast, the Hawks will hold a...

LOS ANGELES — On Monday night, the Lakers listed LeBron James as “out” vs. the Knicks on their official injury report, and they weren’t lying. ESPN reported James would still likely face the Knicks on Tuesday. But a new ESPN report has backtracked, stating James will save himself for the woeful Rockets Wednesday instead of the physical Knicks. That means James will not have faced the Knicks the entire season, missing the April clash with the same ankle sprain. The Knicks’ defense is considered the most physical in the league and perhaps James would like an easier opponent despite the...

Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan has tested positive for the coronavirus “with little to no symptoms”, the Knicks announced on its Twitter account Saturday night. According to a source, Dolan is self-isolating with his family in the Hamptons and his test came back earlier this week. The Knicks said he “continues to oversee business operations.” Dolan is 64

Free-agent All-NBA star Kevin Durant plans to sign a four-year, $164 million contract to play for the Brooklyn Nets, he confirmed Sunday. Durant will join free agents Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan, who also plan to sign with the franchise. Players can officially sign their contracts starting Saturday. Irving will sign for four years and $141 million, league sources said, while Jordan has agreed to a four-year, $40 million deal, Excel Sports agent Jeff Schwartz told ESPN. Veteran guard Garrett Temple has also agreed to a two-year, $10 million deal with Brooklyn, agent Mark Bartelstein told ESPN. The deals mark...

Eight months after a 29-year-old woman said NBA star Kristaps Porzingis raped her inside his apartment, she contacted the New York Knicks' legal department to seek to "mediate in private" a payment of $68,000, according to emails obtained by ESPN. At the time of the woman's documented communication with the Knicks' legal staff -- late October through early November -- no criminal complaint had been filed with New York police. The Knicks eventually referred the woman to Porzingis' personal legal representation.

Willie Naulls, a four-time All-Star forward with the Knicks, a member of three consecutive N.B.A. championship teams with the Boston Celtics and one of pro basketball’s early black stars, died on Thursday at his home in Laguna Niguel, Calif. He was 84. The cause was respiratory failure resulting from Churg-Strauss syndrome, a rare condition that can restrict blood flow to vital organs and tissues, his wife, Dr. Anne Van de Water Naulls, said. A fine outside shooter and a rugged rebounder at 6 feet 6 inches and 225 pounds or so, Naulls was an All-American at U.C.L.A. in 1956, his...

Don’t get used to it, but David Fizdale’s youthful Knicks created fireworks and history on opening night. Scoring a franchise-record 49 points in the second quarter and with Tim Hardaway Jr. adjusting superbly to his No. 1 option role, the Knicks captured their season opener with a 126-107 pounding of the even-younger Hawks. The Garden fell a few hundred fans short of a sellout against a Hawks team expected to compete for the NBA’s worst record. “I don’t want to put a cap on it,’’ Fizdale said before tipoff. “This team could catch fire and figure something out or this...

Carmelo Anthony isn't afraid to be outspoken. The former Knicks superstar has moved away from the Big Apple and constant media attention, but as the 33-year-old gets set to be part of a super Oklahoma City Thunder team, interview requests have been present. During a sit down with USA Today, Anthony opened up on the biggest topic in this country right now: President Donald Trump. Specifically, Anthony talked about how the current president "doesn't get it" or realize what minorities feel like during this presidency.

Ken Sears, an All-America basketball player for Santa Clara in the 1950s who later played eight seasons in the NBA, died Sunday in his hometown of Watsonville, the university announced Monday. He was 83. Mr. Sears played from 1951 through ’55 for the Broncos under head coach Bob Feerick and started as a freshman on their Final Four team of 1952. He was twice named the WCC Player of the Year, beating out USF’s Bill Russell for the honor in 1955.

Wilt Chamberlain set the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169–147 win over the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962, at Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It is widely considered one of the greatest records in basketball. Chamberlain set five other league records that game including most free throws made, a notable achievement, as he was regarded as a poor free throw shooter. The teams broke the record for most combined points in a game (316). That season, Chamberlain averaged a record 50.4 points per...

The current Knicks should show such fight. Charles Oakley, the bruising forward who more than anyone displayed the grit and physical play of Pat Riley’s ’90s Knicks, was arrested and taken out of Madison Square Garden during Wednesday’s game against the Clippers following an altercation with security guards. The incident occurred in the pricey seats after Oakley allegedly heckled team owner James Dolan, who was sitting nearby, said a source who witnessed the incident and asked not to be identified.