Basketball is an indoor sport, but the Knicks added a dimension of outdoor participation to their 2026 championship run. All over the city, watch parties brought together fans from disparate walks of life to root in common cause for a team whose players—and many of those players' parents—were not around to cheer the town's last NBA title.

Earl Warren, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, once said, “I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people’s accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s failures.”

The Knicks made the front page, disrupting the stream of current events with gutsy performance and joyful celebration. What's left of the news business could not diminish their success—a good start to what we hope will be a transformative year.