Yerrrr: New York, Your Knicks Are Going to the Finals!

Written by Brandon Pulmano

Founder | Sideline Society Media

For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are back on the NBA's biggest stage. Madison Square Garden has been electric all season, and now the city that never sleeps finally has something real to celebrate.

This isn't your father's Knicks. No drama, no dysfunction. Just pure hoops. The Mecca’s franchise cornerstone is a quiet assassin.

Jalen Brunson has been the heartbeat of it all. Night in, night out, he has willed this team to wins that nobody saw coming. He doesn't need to be the loudest guy in the room. He just needs the ball in his hands when it matters most.

As a team you they are as tight knit as it gets.

Around him, this roster is built different. OG Anunoby spent the entire postseason making opposing stars disappear.

Josh Hart played with the kind of relentless, thankless energy that makes coaches sleep easy. Karl-Anthony Towns gave them the frontcourt muscle to go toe to toe with anyone in the West.

The Knicks are still on an active 11 game win streak. They haven't lost a postseason game in over a month, last dropping a contest to the Atlanta Hawks in Game 3 of the first round on April 23. To be honest nobody expected this…not even Knicks fans.

But the New York Knicks are proving all their doubters wrong. They are still standing.

But what truly separates these Knicks is the culture. Tom Thibodeau built something in New York that people swore couldn't be built.

A team that grinds, that defends, that refuses to fold when the moment gets heavy. They have been counted out at every turn this postseason.

Now they head to San Antonio for Game 1 on June 4th, facing a young Spurs team riding the wave of a new era.

Two storied franchises. Two long-suffering fan bases. One title up for grabs.

The Knicks have waited 27 years for this moment. They didn't survive the postseason grind just to come up short now.