[Highlight] The New York Knicks defeat the San Antonio Spurs, 124-113, to win the NBA Cup Championship in Las Vegas. The Knicks outscore the Spurs 35-19 in the 4th quarter.
I’ll say it, I like the NBA Cup. And I like seeing them celebrate the win. It’s a fun little side quest in the middle of the season. I hope it becomes even more important over time.
Oh trust me, you’ll never hear the end of it from the first NBA team who’ll win the Double
especially if its us
Honestly, I’d be okay with y’all beating the Thunder. Not ideal lol but better than them winning again
ngl bro u a better man than me. I think I’d just want them to be inevitable until we make it back there. Done with the sport
I feel you dude
I was praying for this situation last year:
Nuggets beat Thunder, Minnesota beat Nuggets, Knicks beat Minnesota (or at least get close)
I agree. Let us win all our games against you 😘
We’re gunning for it 🙏
Every winner has been “gunning for it”, I can’t picture a scenario where the winner wouldn’t.
Y’know what, fair
It’d be a flex to have the Larry O and the Cup both at the championship parade
they have a trophy for best record in the league now too. gonna be hell when a team wins the nba treble. OKC got really close last year
If you watch international soccer, these league cups can become hugely important.
It’s an 82 game regular season where none of us really cares about an individual game. This is a great mostly meaningless way to inject excitement into the season.
The thing the NBA seems to forget about is what makes the cups special is the ability to play against new clubs from lower or different divisions. Playing exclusively the same teams you’re guaranteed to play multiple times each season make it feel pointless
Gah imagine a US Open Cup but for basketball. I would love to see that shit lol.
FA Cup and just go round up a bunch of other pro teams across the globe, hell lets say the college national champs get automatic placement into the cup too. Have like 100 teams battling it out for a chance to beat NBA teams
I think this will be a big part of the new European league. Having the NBA Europe (or whatever) play American NBA teams in the Cup would lend a ton of credibility to the league and would further the NBA’s global ambitions.
i mean european teams exist already, the nba doesn’t have to send columbus over to discover a new continent lmao
bro, it’d be good if the europe teams were also part of the cup. But it’d be very ugly the first couple of years with the talent discrepancy.
Great for the players as well. 530k bonus is no joke when two ways make like 600k for the whole year. Getting an additional 500k for winning 1 game (and right before the holidays) is a major deal.
Yeah several stars have talked about how much they want to win to get the end of bench guys a huge bonus. Even second round picks thats a huge extra chunk of change.
and they made another 150 for the quarters and semis i think
edit: the $530k or so TOTAL payout amount is accumulation of monies earned thro the quarters/semis and the chip.
I thought that but it’s total I believe.
This is exactly what the Cup needed for it to become legitimized. A team that actually cared winning it.
I doubt I’ll ever care about who wins the tournament, but I just like competitive basketball.
So I’ll take it.
Yeah it’s been awesome
They need to lose the dogshit full neon green and pink courts though, that shit stinks and wont help them gain viewers by making the games unwatchable
LATRELL SPREWELL AND ALLAN HOUSTON, REST NOW BROTHERS, WE HAVE THE WATCH, AND WE’LL SEE YOU IN VALHALLA.
CAN YOU SEE ME WALT CLYDE FRAZIER
If you told me the Knicks won the NBA Cup 20 years ago I wouldnt believe you. I would insist you just made that up completely.
“What the fuck are you talking about”
You can rest now, Charlie (Ward)
You can rest now, Charles {Oakley} but fuck you still Charles Smith you shouldve dunked the ball.
That quote still kills me
I don’t get how he doesn’t lie awake at night just reliving that moment of his life as the cringiest thing he’s ever done.
Bc that’s what a sane human would do. Heck I just cringed about letting a cook go buy beer during a Friday shift. He never returned. That was 10 years ago
God bless the United States of Amerigadith
Somebody get this man a Woman’s jacket, size M
Akxicjskapxofjwnsjcucueb hahahahahah f you this was hella funny
WINTER IS COMING - JOHN STARKS
Tyler Kolek take a bow
Clarkson no less
And Mitch
Spurs diehard (and Knicks fan) here, but Mitchell’s insane OREBs really were the tipping point in that fourth. GGs gamers
Real respect real.
10 offensive rebounds in 18 minutes?!?!?!?!?
On pace to have the greatest offensive rebounding season in history. Hope he qualifies for minutes
My friend, he bows to no one.
Problem is, he can’t read so you’re gonna have to go tell him that.
GG to the Knicks, they killed us on the glass in the 4th, and it really feels like the Spurs just entirely ran out of steam. Also didn’t help they they never capitalized on challenging the guys with 4⁄5 fouls.
I’m still super proud of this team, their effort, and the tenacity they showed in gwtting to this point. This squad is still very young and this is a learning moment for them.
These cup runs are super valuable for these young teams. They really helped the Pacers two years ago and the Thunder last year, and they’ll be really beneficial for you guys too.
And the $$$ is pretty nice too.
Wonder if it’s enough to adopt that llama Keldon wanted
Oooh so you’re saying we have a chance to make it to finals this year? Don’t mind if we do!
No no no, the loser of the Final makes the other finals, winner exits in the first round and has their number 2 guy traded (sometimes for an upgrade)
Your team is playing above their pay grade a bit earlier than expected. No reason to be disappointed. This is the start of it for the Spurs
Only took them 8 years after the Kawhi fiasco lol
Yeah they’re legit now though, it’s a shame Pop had to go right before getting Harper and Castle
It only took them 8 years, how many more years will the pelicans continue to float around in mediocrity?
Not gonna lie it kind of felt like the ball movement completely died in the 4th when Wemby got back on the floor
Yeah bc he took a couple quick 3s killed the offense
Only reason spurs were still in the game with 2 mins left was bc of Dylan Harper
GGs. Harper and Wemby might become my favorite non Knicks
Brunson my favorite non-Spur. I just love how this guy plays.
Spurs have a serious future man, nothing to be ashamed of, thanks for beating OKC <3
NBA cup is a huge success. It showed The spurs what their weaknesses are and now they can game plan how they want to rectify.
Not as bad as 2013 but I still feel sick. GG Knicks
different universes of pain man, 2013 is as close to real trauma as a sports occurrence has brought me
2013 is I believe to this day the only time I’ve actually punched something out of rage due to sports, 11 year old me waw incensed
Little kids crashing out at sports is always so funny, them little dudes care so much lol
As a kid, you haven’t really had much heartbreak or pain (hopefully) so when your heroes get beat it feels like getting kicked in the balls and getting broken up with at the same time.
I sometimes miss the passion I had for sports back then lol.
It made 2014 that much sweeter though. #5 doesn’t hit as hard for me if that doesn’t happen.
Try being a Minnesota Vikings fan. You have no idea what trauma is
I still curse myself for falling in love with the Vikings but I still wouldn’t change a thing
It took them 26 years but the knicks finally got us back for the 99 finals.
Spurs seem to have a never ending supply of good guards. Wemby wasn’t even the biggest issue.
Harrison Barnes man 🫠🫠. I can’t be too mad because he’s had some amazing games this season but this team is so clearly young and raw. Hoping for the best this year and that we can at least make the playoffs as a top 6 seed.
The Spurs will be a problem for years to come my god all the young guys feel like they got all star upside and obviously Wemby- generational
Crazy that Castle, Wemby and Harper are still learning how to play so much of the game right now. Knicks have some nice experience and playoff tested. Gotta be exciting to be a Knicks fan with a coach like Mike Brown.
Lmaoooo Adam Silver getting booed
Omg that’s what that was?? They were trying so hard to sound it out on the broadcast
I was at the game and can confirm they were boos. Silver seemed taken aback lol
I went to the NBA draft in June, they booed him there as well 😭😭😭
he should be used to it by now. he’s boo’d every. single. time.
Who is that commentator sucking his dick in the broadcast? Thanking him nonstop lmao.
Stan van gundy
If you gave me three guesses, he would have been one of them
“The MVP should go to Adam Silver! 🤓”
I can’t stand him man.
It was SO ANNOYING!
He said Adam Silver should win the MVP over Jalen Brunson for creating this event lmao, I see how SVG got his job now.
He was lookin extra leathery tonight. Might be shedding season.
CUZ HE TRIED TO TALK ABOUT YUR FUCKIN SPURS LOL TRASH ASS (good game yall played) TEAM!
As of course is tradition.
If you would have told me when I was a kid we would be NBA cup champions one day, I’d say WTF is that.
Still happy to win something!
HANG IT
Yeah, like sure I guess it doesn’t mean much, BUT winning it is certainly better than not, so enjoy lol.
It’s kinda interesting to see who can win out in a single elim tournament. Different type of pressure.
HANG THE BANNER
STOP THE COUNT
START THE CAR
PUT YOUR SHOES ON
I wish the Timberwolves had any sort of banner to hang.
Yea people who shit on the cup don’t realize how much this would mean to a lot of the poverty franchises. This is huge for the Knicks, would be huge for the kings I can say for sure, this would mean the world for tons of fanbases.
Wizards might hang a banner for making the cup playoffs.
“2025 NBA Cup Participant”
KAT had one, take it as you will
BAN THE HANGER
Bing fucking Bong
Respect to the Bing Bong. Respect to the cup.
Happy for our boy Hartenstein too.
Best part is, this is gonna make the Knicks, OKC, Spurs and the whole league extra hungry for the playoffs, chains have been snatched
Hey man Zion is extra hungry too.
He’ll have to a cup to go pls and thnx
Best comment here. Tyler fuckin kolek just took more then a quarter mil out of each of the spurs pockets, that’s cold
Don’t tell Vivek that
The Knicks earned it at the end of the night. Those offensive rebound were really important for them. Nevertheless, the Spurs have a bright future in front if them. I really liked Harper in that late game. Kolek played also pretty well, espacially in that endgame.
Kolek earned that 500k tonight.
Clarkson too.
Even that hukporti steal in one minute of play was worth 500k.
I don’t care what people say about the cup, this feels good and I had fun the whole way through
Fuck the haters bruh. I heard in some circles that an NBA Cup is more valued than the O’Brien’s anyway, the mark of a real quality franchise.
If the Spurs had won, this sub would’ve been sucking them off and saying Wemby has arrived. I’m glad NY won instead. Knicks put on their big boy pants and bullied the Spurs in that last quarter.
For real. I can die happy now.
It was a great tournament with some great games. I liked how the refs swallowed the whistle and let them play. I hope they stick with this in the playoffs.
Spurs couldn’t hit a damn bucket in the 4th quarter
Kolek and OG with those clutch 3s just killed it.
Dont forget harts bailout 3.
In classic Josh Hart fashion
the bigger the bucket the higher % it goes down
Fox couldn’t hit a bucket. Then topped it with bad defense
They were just straight chucking 3s. Like Wemby forgot he was 7 foot 6 and just went to the top of the key for a shot.
Seriously, just jacking 3s and top of the key fadeaways
But were the misses elegant?
im crying those 3rd stringers happy as hell to win some money 😭
Nephews happy as hell lol
Knicks haters are so mad right now 😂
This thread would be teeeeming if the spurs won.
1k upvotes almost an hour after the game is a joke. Thread would’ve been at least at 10k by now if San Antonio had won.
I know it’s not what you’re saying, but nothing but class from every Spurs fan in this thread that I’ve seen.
everyone else would have been the problem every other insignificant team’s fans would be chiming in
Bro I swear I saw OG get like 2 blocks and three steals and he didn’t get credited with any of them 😭😂
His presence
Happened against the magic too. Definitely had at least one block that was not credited.
whimper sob and cry r/nba
If we won I would have said to hang a banner but since we lost I’m gonna blame it on Wemby having limited minutes and say no one cares about the stupid NBA cup anyway
A true man of class
LOLKNICKS DOWN TO ITS LOWEST POINT!
Everyone sell your LOLKNICKS stocks
And social media at large
Nah, y’all earned that. Good work.
Those commentators were on suicide watch towards the end and I loved every moment of that.
Knicks fans and OKC fans being unlikely allies is not something I expected.
Unfortunately for the Spurs this was the NBA Cup “Finals” in which the commentators picked the Spurs to win 3-1, and so with Harrison Barnes on their team the PTSD was bound to spread to the whole team in the clutch
They simply could not stop fawning over them and Wemby until we took lead
Stan hates the Knicks. He’s honestly worse than Reggie and RJ.
Am i wrong for expecting more from Fox ? He is supposed to be the franchise pg next to Wembi but today i saw more heart from Harper. Fox was far too passiv imo, only taking 13 shots is insane for a guy getting payed the max in a finals game….. specially when Wembi isnt close to 100% yet.
Ironically Mike Brown chewed Fox out, when they were both on the Kings, for not giving his all for all 4 quarters
Congratulations to the Knicks! They rebounded like demons in the second half and their veterans came through in the clutch. We just couldn’t keep up with them. Very excited for the rest of the season
We needed Mr.100% today 😢
One thing we can all agree on:
Taylor Rooks is fine as hell. Sheesh.
YU SPELLED TYLER KOLEK WRONG
LETS GO KNICKS
Very sophisticated basketball from the Knicks if I do say so myself
NOT BAD FOR A WEAK CONFERENCE
Yo, Knicks look tough. The second chance points, clutch threes, hustle plays. Not gonna be an easy out no matter who you face. GG.
Appreciate it a Nuggets Knicks final would be some good hoops with some top of the line role players. Good luck the rest of the way.
67% of nba cups have been won by the east 😤
will this be the first “Mitch Johnson got outcoached” game?
Coaching wasn’t the problem, the Spurs players just choked so. hard. although Johnson should’ve ran the Kornet/Wemby combo when those offensive rebounds started piling up.
yeah that’s crazy that Kornet didn’t sub himself in
Harrison Barnes being bad in big games and DeAaron Fox having poor attention to detail in clutch moments is more on the players
Wemby was clearly undisciplined not only offensively but defensively though
Mike Brown definitely knew those two things and took advantage
Bro your wemby comment is an understatement. Felt like he completely ignored the game plan once that ball got in his hands.
37-18 run. 43 rebounds by the Spurs to 57 by the Knicks.
There’s been plenty of those already lol
I dont wanna hear that this team has no depth again. Down two rotation players and KAT on a bum knee, mike brown went deep in the rotation, and left mikal f bridges on the bench to win the game.
I dont wanna hear a damn thing about thibs ever again. Forreal
Talk yo shit
Wemby just isn’t a sophisticated basketball player. He’s also deeply unethical with the baskets. Why can’t Wemby just be more sophisticated?
He’s not built for it.
I can’t wait for the Thunder to destroy them in the playoffs. Wemby will have like 2 monster games and they’ll lose in 6. He can rip Chet all he wants, but flags fly forever.
**This means something to me man. *”
Simply got out-dawged. Knicks wanted it more. Robinson, Kolek, Clarkson huge down the stretch & we didn’t have role players who stepped up like that. OG best player on the court along with Mitch Robinson.
Harper & Castle the only guys on our team who looked prepared to fight as hard as the Knicks guys did for the full 48 minutes.
Really fun game, the final version of the Spurs as this team matures is terrifying for the league. Wemby, Harper, Castle is such a fun young core.
Glad the Knicks pulled this one out. Biggest takeaway is we lose that game a year ago with Thibs. Loved the fact Brown stuck with Kolek as long as he did; huge pivot point in the game alongside Mitch.
MITCHELL ROBINSON WITH 15 REBOUNDS
10 OREBS IN 18 MINUTES
Hilarious watching a team with a 8 footer just shooting threes lmfao
GO NY GO NY GO
#PLAY THE MOTHER FUCKING MUSIC
FINALLY REVENGE FOR 1999!
LATRELL SPREWELL SENDS HIS REGARDS.
Spurs looking real young under the bright lights in the 4th quarter.
Hang the banner! Plan the parade! The Knicks have finally won a championship!
Hilarious coming from a Nets fan
The Liberty are way more Brooklyn’s team than the Nets tbh lmao
Mamdani might just be the lucky charm for the city. LGK!
Some people are built for the moment, and some people aren’t. The Knicks were definitely built for it
Not bad for an unsophisticated offense 🤡
GO NEW YORK GO NEW YORK GO
I truly don’t understand how anyone hates on this. The middle of the regular season is boring as fuck. This was fun.
If you hate this, you really do just hate fun.
LETS GO BABY OG ANUNOBY HAVE MY CHILDREN
Unsophisticated
But i thought the best player in the league was playing, lol, he said so himself…
Mike Brown revenge game on Fox
historically nba cup winners get eliminated in the first round and the loser makes at least the conference finals so i’m okay with this