The\u00a0Larry O’Brien Trophy\u00a0will be in the building. The rehearsals for the presentation ceremony, if one is needed, are complete. Thousands of\u00a0New York fans\u00a0have made the trip to Texas, looking to see something that hasn’t happened in 53 years.<\/p>\n
The rest is up to the Knicks.<\/p>\n
New York can win its first NBA championship since 1973 on Saturday night, with the Knicks holding a 3-1 lead going into Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Spurs.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 1,580 miles from San Antonio, orange-and-blue-blooded Knicks fans in NYC are teeming into the area near Madison Square Garden to watch on bar TVs and big screens, with a watch party once again being held \u2014 a relief for fans after a rift between the city and MSG.<\/p>\n
Follow along below for the latest before and during Game 5:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Larry O’Brien Trophy\u00a0will be in the building. The rehearsals for the presentation ceremony, if one is needed, are…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":865457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1260,3579,405,403,3122,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-865456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116745244979151049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865456","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=865456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}