Sports Poets Society

First Title Since 1973 Transforms A Hardened City Into a Puddle of Joy Matt Flegenheimer Bernard Mokam contributed reporting The New York Times - Lunedì 15 giugno 2026 Pagina 1 So this is how it feels.  It is giggling, weeping, spinning, convulsing, mosh-pitting, truck-honking, law-skirting, trumpet-playing, cowbell-ringing, off-key-singing, cigar-lighting, allnight-ing — remembering to remember it all, as if Knicks fans would ever forget.  It is hugging strangers so hard they go airborne, fist-bumping cabbies as they crawl through concrete delirium, high-fiving kids on shoulders (and adults on shoulders), climbing stoplights and trees and scaffolding to wave the team flag higher, swiping utility cones and wearing them as hats because they are orange.  It is tears blotting the pavement outside Madison Square Garden, where New Yorkers had for generations walked off disappointment after debacle after heartbreak after OK-that’s-just-cruel.  It is kick-lining together to...

Resilience. Courage. ‘Blah Blah Blah.’ Can It Work as It Did in ’70 and ’73?  Matt Flegenheimer The New York Times - Domenica 7 giugno 2026 Pagina 23 The octogenarian Hall of Famer edged forward in his chair, running on Fanta and popcorn and Swiss chocolate, extending both arms toward the television like a sixth Knicks defender in the closing minutes of his old team’s first N.B.A. finals game in a generation. “Brunson. Come on. Yeah. Heyyyyyyyyyy!”  Bill Bradley shouted at the Knicks star Jalen Brunson, beaming in a blue sweater at his small Manhattan viewing party as New York retook the lead late in its Game 1 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night. “That’s what you do when you’re a champion.”  He knows something about that. Bradley, the 82-year-old former U.S. senator from New Jersey, helped deliver the last Knicks titles in 1970 and 1973, when a title drought felt like less of a festering citywide wound. When this series moves from San Antonio to Madison...