{"id":745295,"date":"2026-05-27T12:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/745295\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:27:23","slug":"knicks-nba-title-quest-about-to-run-into-big-thunder-or-spurs-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/745295\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; NBA title quest about to run into big Thunder or Spurs test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks speed-ran the Eastern Conference to clinch their first NBA Finals berth since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Brunson looked <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/26\/sports\/why-mark-messier-is-convinced-jalen-brunson-can-end-knicks-title-drought\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">like the ultimate cheat code<\/a>. Mikal Bridges played <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/26\/sports\/knicks-villanova-trio-in-awe-of-their-almost-impossible-opportunity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">like his stamina bar was undrainable<\/a>. OG Anunoby has been a two-way menace.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/26\/sports\/knicks-unreal-playoff-run-has-few-peers-even-in-pantheon-of-new-york-greats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have spent the past month-plus stomping through opponents<\/a> like Mario with a Super Star power-up.<\/p>\n<p>It started with Level 1: the Hawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks speed-ran the Eastern Conference to clinch their first NBA Finals berth since 1999. Jalen Brunson looked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4517,288,6,11,56381,191,179,3823,474,209,66,196,693],"class_list":["post-745295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116646539644418424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745295","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=745295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}