New York Knicks Mike Vaccaro The unfortunate salary cap realities looming over Knicks’ title defense By Mike Vaccaro Published Sep. 28, 2026, 5:54 p.m. ET Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks speaks to the media during New York Knicks Media Day at the Knicks Training Facility on Monday, September 28, 2026, in Tarrytown, New York. Getty Images This is the good stuff, the forever, the eternal, the can’t-ever-take-it-away from us: This is OG Anunoby, asked if he — like millions of other Knicks fans — would occasionally be scrolling his phone across the past few months and be happily interrupted by an Instagram post or a TikTok video replaying the magic of June 10, when he swooped from the sky to tip a ball into a basket.
“I’m gonna watch that back,” he said, smiling the same smile that millions of Knicks fans did watching that video hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times.
This is the good stuff, the forever, the eternal, the can’t-ever-take-it-away from us: This is Karl-Anthony Towns, a few weeks after his Aug. 15 wedding to Jordyn Woods: “My wife and I are on our honeymoon, went to East Africa. We went to Nairobi, to Tanzania, and it was crazy to be in the Serengeti and the people in their cars in the wild are like, ‘KNICKS IN FIVE!’”
Karl-Anthony Towns of the New York Knicks is honored during a ceremony receiving the key to the city after a ticker tape parade on Thursday, June 18, 2026, at City Hall in Manhattan, New York. Stephen Yang for NY Post This is the good stuff, the forever, the eternal, the can’t-ever-take-it-away from us: This is Jalen Brunson, TV detective, late-night sketch comedian, muse for a U.S. Open finalist, proving to a fresh generation of would-be recruits to New York City that, yes, winning a title here is unlike winning it anywhere else.
