{"id":74730,"date":"2026-06-11T06:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/the-knicks-have-stopped-believing-in-impossible-they-may-be-a-team-of-destiny-claire-de-lune\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:56:48","slug":"the-knicks-have-stopped-believing-in-impossible-they-may-be-a-team-of-destiny-claire-de-lune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/the-knicks-have-stopped-believing-in-impossible-they-may-be-a-team-of-destiny-claire-de-lune\/","title":{"rendered":"The Knicks have stopped believing in impossible. They may be a team of destiny | Claire de Lune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u2019s 29-point comeback in Game 4 was the largest in NBA finals history. For a team forged by disappointment, it felt strangely inevitable<\/p>\n<p>What does a team of destiny look like? You know it when you see it. The evidence has been mounting for weeks \u2013 months, even \u2013 that this year, despite decades of precedent to the contrary, that team is the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, the proof overflowed in the hallowed halls of the Mecca. One of the most improbable comebacks in NBA history \u2013 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/10\/wembanyama-spurs-knicks-game-4-nba-finals-series-tied\">largest ever in an NBA finals game<\/a> \u2013 saw New York erase a 29-point deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4, leaving Taylor Swift and members of Haim leaping for joy courtside and the 58-year-old building shaking like a bounce house.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/11\/new-york-knicks-comeback-nba-finals-team-of-destiny\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u2019s 29-point comeback in Game 4 was the largest in NBA finals history. For a team forged by disappointment, it felt strangely inevitable What does a team of destiny look like? You know it when you see it. The evidence has been mounting for weeks \u2013 months, even \u2013 that this year, despite decades &#8230; <a title=\"The Knicks have stopped believing in impossible. They may be a team of destiny | Claire de Lune\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/the-knicks-have-stopped-believing-in-impossible-they-may-be-a-team-of-destiny-claire-de-lune\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Knicks have stopped believing in impossible. They may be a team of destiny | Claire de Lune\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}