Silver will make them hang it up just like the way he made the Bucks and Lakers do it

We said the same thing about refusing to hang a banner then they “pressured” us into doing it so well see what happens

I think what’ll ultimately happen is we hang it after the results of the 2025-26 season. There are division banners hanging and Presidents Trophy banners hanging for the Rangers, so I don’t see why an NBA Cup banner wouldn’t be in the cards.

What is the league going to do if they don’t?

IST ❓

The Lakers design is perfect, it leaves room for more wins without unnecessary putting up too many NBA Cup banners.

If there’s an owner who doesn’t give af what Silver has to say it’s Dolan 🤷‍♂️

The Knicks and Rangers have Division banners at MSG, there just is never a big ceremony for those. I’d guess they’ll quietly put up an NBA Cup banner in the offseason if they don’t win the title and if they win the Finals there will be a opening night ceremony celebrating both.

At least the Lakers and Bucks won a big boy title recently

It does look bad for the Knicks raising but at the same time the league will continue to want to legitimize this tournament 

Dolan is infinitely more stubborn than the Buss family though.

This will get interesting.

Fine.. do it with zero fanfare. Nothing on TV, no fans, media, etc. just a couple janitors hanging it around midnight

Luckily Dolan and Silver absolutely despise each other

Same, hang that shit

The players got paid. That’s what they care about

If they care about clutter for some reason then make a single banner where you can stitch on the individual years they won the NBA Cup

Easy peasy

They should hang a banner but not put “Emirates” on it.

They cared about making $690,000, lets get real.

Yep.

Also the IST could go on for 50 years too and having one of the first wins could end up being a nice accolade. There’s no harm in hanging it and being proud of players and Knicks only help themselves by doing whatever the can to legitimize a relatively new thing.

For all we know the players were apart of this decision. Knicks are competing for something in June and hanging a banner in December can breed complacency. They all respect the Cup but they are on a journey that will hopefully end in a real Championship banner.

Because it’s still a weird midseason tournament that fans generally don’t give a fuck about, and embarrassing when people point at it and laugh that they’re hanging banners for midseason accomplishments because they can’t hang a Finals banner.

I’m not downplaying the accomplishment, Knicks have a great team and could go all the way this year, but it is what it is.  In the real world no one gives a fuck about this, for all fans it’s Finals or bust.

Meh that in season tournament is mostly a stupid gimmick

Omg what a great point.

If you’re celebrating division titles, the NBA gets a banner.

I was actually gonna ask if the Knicks are one of the teams that do this. Makes it even more lame. If you’re going full “jobs not finished” absolutely take that shit down. 

Im on a 8 title winstreak in my 2K eras save. Forced Knicks to draft Melo and AI has zero trade logic

did the bucks also do this?

That’s the way to do it. Not hanging anything honestly feels like they’re just afraid that people will make fun of them for it lol. Which like sure, some people will, but fuck em. It’s a cool accomplishment and the fan base should be proud.

If the Kings ever won the cup, I’d want the city to build a statue.

that’s smart actually

They could have the dude who made iversons statue design the banner. It’ll be 3 inches long

The Harry Styles banner is still the funniest one in MSG.

I was there for the raising of the phish banner 8/6/17. It was quite the feat phish accomplished. 13 shows with no repeats. I think after their annual new years run coming up, they will have played 100 shows total at MSG, with their first one being back in 1994. Pretty good for a relatively unknown band to the general public.

I think we have the Atlantic div win up there …. Lmao raise the fucking banner you cowards.

Can’t forget the Harry Styles banner too

Seriously, they throw champagne celebrations in baseball when they clinch a playoff spot. Let the Knicks celebrate winning an NBA basketball tournament.

Gatekeeping what is celebration-worthy is one of the dumber things people do in sports imo

talk to all the old heads ESPN has on their most popular shows. yesterday and today have been nothing but “the cup is a meaningless joke” from PTI to first take, to charles barkley. It’s wild to me that ESPN producers don’t think propping up a league they have billions invested in would help their ratings.

Do teams still hang banners for every division title win?

That’s what Hart said post game too. People would be mad either way.

Yeah, so they should have made the right choice and celebrated this accomplishment. Screw what anyone else says.

Who, the Knicks!?

I think they will get more mocking this way than hanging it but yeah any post in here someone has to come in and say they dont like it, its dumb, its lame.. 

100%.

i’m not one to talk smack, there are some weak-ass banners hanging in sports venues here in toronto.

but since the bucks/lakers already hung one, and both have won championships pretty recently, this is probably the weaker-looking move.

just bite the bullet and do what the lakers did.

Right? What’s this baggage Knicks seems to have? If the Lakers (at the time tied the Celtics with most chips) hung it up, why can’t the Knicks?

I mean, they competed against some of the greatest hoopers on Planet Earth and won something.

Why not celebrate it?

Flair up bud

Not celebrating wins because of fear of being mocked or cringe is absolutely lame. Fuck the haters they hate anyway.

You guys already get mocked relentlessly

We need some more frontcourt help. We kind of struggle against bigger teams

People whose only Cup accomplishment was sitting on the couch think they can diminish someone else’s accomplishment lmao