{"id":755371,"date":"2026-06-08T02:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/755371\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:24:15","slug":"ben-stiller-reveling-in-knicks-going-from-a-lot-of-pain-to-cusp-of-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/755371\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller reveling in Knicks going from &#8216;a lot of pain&#8217; to cusp of title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stiller, like so many others around NYC, had become numb to the losing, the dysfunction, the pain.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks were accepted as \u201ca joke,\u201d he said, and standards were lowered to cope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy whole life I\u2019ve lived with this idea that, \u2018Oh, the Knicks aren\u2019t going to make it, the Knicks have never been good, the Knicks have been a joke for a long time back in the day,\u2019 \u201d Stiller, the award-winning comedian and director, told The Post. \u201cIt almost became something you accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stiller\u2019s fandom began during the 1973-74 season, when his father\u2019s friends \u2014 Freddie and Stan \u2014 invited the youngster to their eighth-row seats behind the Knicks bench. Coincidentally, that campaign started a 53-year championship drought and Stiller, whose fandom was reinvigorated after moving back to NYC from LA in 2010, witnessed plenty from courtside seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller, like so many others around NYC, had become numb to the losing, the dysfunction, the pain.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,5742,1997,6,1220,11,56381,191,474,66,198,196],"class_list":["post-755371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-ben-stiller","tag-exclusive","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116712116300460495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755371","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=755371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}