Sanders\u2019 only child, was a freshman<\/a> at Boys and Girls High School \u2014 and a basketball nut.<\/p>\nThe gunman who killed 15-year-old Tristan Sanders on Oct. 26, 2024, remains on the loose. Michael Nagle<\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up watching the Knicks and I would have my son watching the games with me and he grew to love them,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cThat was his team. I had a Knicks-themed 5th birthday for him and he loved it!\u201d<\/p>\n
The grieving mom is now finding a new connection with the son she lost, celebrating as the Knicks prepare to face off against the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals starting Wednesday \u2014 the first time the team has reached that pinnacle since 1999 with a chance for their first champions in 53 years.<\/p>\n
Knicks fans celebrate outside MSG after the team swept the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n
Not lost on Sanders is the fact that the historic playoff run is coming in June \u2014 which is National Gun Violence Awareness Month. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a part of this organization, NAC [Not Another Child],:\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t want this to keep happening because it\u2019s disheartening.\u00a0 He was one of multiple young men who lost their lives at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shanae Sanders is celebrating the Knicks\u2019 playoff run in memory of her slain teen son. Shanae Sanders<\/p>\n
For her, the Knicks have provided some healing. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still mourning him so it\u2019s hard to celebrate but with them winning, it brings a little joy,\u201d Sanders told The Post. \u201cI just wish he was here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks playoff run has been bittersweet for Brooklyn mom Shanae Sanders, whose celebration of the team\u2019s new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":834969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,5248,3579,405,403,3122,5226,5225,5228,5227,3677,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,2694],"class_list":["post-834968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-brooklyn","tag-metro","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-shootings","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-victims"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116670195953981810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}