{"id":712279,"date":"2026-04-17T08:21:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712279\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:21:54","slug":"trae-young-trolls-knicks-in-response-to-nyc-mayor-mamdani-ahead-of-hawks-playoff-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712279\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Young Trolls Knicks in Response to NYC Mayor Mamdani Ahead of Hawks Playoff Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Trae Young is no longer a member of the Atlanta Hawks after being traded midseason to the Washington Wizards, but his past exploits at Madison Square Garden haven&#8217;t soon been forgotten in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ahead of Atlanta&#8217;s playoff matchup against the New York Knicks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani evoked the memory of Young, prompting a response from the star point guard:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In May 2021, former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio accused Young of foul-baiting:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">That&#8230; didn&#8217;t end well for the Knicks and their fans, as Young led the Hawks to a series victory in five games:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">New Yorkers may want to consider not mentioning Young&#8217;s name this time of year. Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trae Young is no longer a member of the Atlanta Hawks after being traded midseason to the Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-712279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-hawks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116419084015025618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}