{"id":861301,"date":"2026-06-12T03:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/861301\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:09:18","slug":"the-knicks-surreal-game-4-win-is-in-a-new-york-sports-class-of-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/861301\/","title":{"rendered":"The Knicks’ surreal Game 4 win is in a New York sports class of its own"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friends, New Yorkers, Knicks fans, lend me your ears; I come not to bury That Game but to praise it.<\/p>\n

So \u2026 how much time ya got?<\/p>\n

I was there, and I\u2019m still not sure I saw what I saw<\/a>. I stayed up until 4 in the morning Thursday watching the replay of Knicks 107, Spurs 106, because sometimes you really do need evidence to back up what you saw. As joyful a room as Madison Square Garden was, as loud as it became, as surreal as the recovery from 29 points down felt, I needed more proof.<\/p>\n

I know I\u2019m not alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends, New Yorkers, Knicks fans, lend me your ears; I come not to bury That Game but to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":861302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,40717,1260,3578,304733,405,403,3122,5226,5225,5228,5227,17380,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-861301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-larry-david","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-og-anunoby","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861301","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=861301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}