{"id":2485972,"date":"2026-07-03T03:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2485972"},"modified":"2026-07-03T03:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:55:38","slug":"knicks-loving-celebrities-react-to-teams-first-title-in-53-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/knicks-loving-celebrities-react-to-teams-first-title-in-53-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks-Loving Celebrities React to Team&#8217;s First Title in 53 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tJennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Mariska Hargitay and other Knicks-loving celebrities turned to social media Saturday night to celebrate the New York team\u2019s first championship in 53 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile Knicks diehards like Timothee Chalamet, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, and Tracy Morgan were in San Antonio to witness the team\u2019s first title since 1973, many more famous fans watched on television and celebrated the Game 5 win from home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cCongratulations to the New York Knickerbockers, NBA Champions!!!!!,\u201d Jennifer Lopez wrote on social media alongside a video of her celebrating the win.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to the New York Knickerbockers, NBA Champions!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>I remember the last time the Knicks were making a run for the championship and rushing home every game day from the set to watch Ewing, Starks and Oakley make a hell of a run. We have all been waiting patiently\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ugCRWkkjJf\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ugCRWkkjJf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jlo (@JLo) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JLo\/status\/2066055103812186589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 14, 2026<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI remember the last time the Knicks were making a run for the championship and rushing home every game day from the set to watch Ewing, Starks and Oakley make a hell of a run. We have all been waiting patiently for this day for years. Thank you for uniting our city again\u2026for uniting the world. You restored faith, hope and belief in that there\u2019s nothing we can\u2019t do!! Hard work, goodness and teamwork pays off! You set the city on fire!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t(Lopez might be mixing up the 1994 Knicks team that lost in the Finals with the Starks-and-Oakley-less 1999 team that also reached the championships, ultimately losing to the Spurs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCardi B, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cardi-b-nba-finals-game-3-halftime-show-performance-1235574429\/\">performed during halftime of Game 3<\/a>, watched the championship-winning game on a cellphone in her basement. \u201cWe won!\u201d she yelled around her house. \u201cWe fucking won!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHargitay, who attended the historic Game 4 comeback victory <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-knicks-nba-finals-haim-1235575812\/\">alongside Taylor Swift<\/a>, posted a tribute to her friend and Finals MVP Jalen Brunson after the win: \u201cAnd you lead the way for so many. Congratulations to you all and deepest thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t(Brunson quipped in a postgame interview what his plans were after winning the title, \u201cTry to get on SVU.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tJon Stewart, like thousands of New Yorkers, took to the streets to watch Game 5\u2019s closing moments projected on the side of a building:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tChalamet, the Knicks\u2019 most visible fan throughout their championship run, said on the Spurs court after the win, \u201cWay rather this than the Oscars.\u201d The actor and Stiller later made their way to the Knicks\u2019 locker room for the champagne celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCheck out more celebrity reactions to the Knicks\u2019 win below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Mariska Hargitay and other Knicks-loving celebrities turned to social media Saturday night to celebrate the New York team\u2019s first championship in 53 years. While Knicks diehards like Timothee Chalamet, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, and Tracy Morgan were in San Antonio to witness the team\u2019s first title since 1973, many more famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2485975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[345485],"class_list":["post-2485972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-new-york-knicks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Knicks-Loving-Celebrities-React-to-Teams-First-Title-in-53-Years.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485977,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485972\/revisions\/2485977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}