00:00Nick Vans, this is not a dream. Your long, long wait has ended.
00:05It's ecstasy. I've never felt this feeling besides the night I met my wife, the night my son was born,
00:14and this.
00:15I feel like my spirit has levitated.
00:21However long you waited for this, you deserve the joy of it.
00:27There's a lot in this world that's hard, there's a lot of pain, there's a lot of struggle, and sports
00:35fandom and identifying what the place that you come from is something that can bring you so much joy, and
00:41you deserve every little bit of that joy that you're feeling right now.
00:46This team plays the right way. It's a New York team. They represent the city.
00:57Ladies and gentlemen, your 2026 NBA champion, New York Knicks.
01:02For 53 long years, we have watched and we have waited.
01:06We have watched from nosebleeds and through gritted teeth, on televisions in the windows of electronic stores, and from projectors
01:14balanced on fire escapes.
01:15We have watched alone in our apartments with our heads in our hands, alongside friends and family, who we wish
01:22more than anything could be here today, sharing this moment.
01:25Game four. Nine minutes and 33 seconds left in the fourth quarter. The Knicks are down 20. They calculate the
01:32odds. They write the Knicks off. They give the Spurs a 99.6% chance of winning the game.
01:38Off the bounce. Step back. Puts up the three. It's good. Got locked at four. Brunson gets inside. Right-handed.
01:45Off the glass. It's good. And it's a seven-point game.
01:48But there is one thing that the pundits just don't get about this team, this city. It is in that
01:52.4% that we go to work.
02:04Let's keep this energy going, baby, because this championship, this championship is about you guys. This is New York City's
02:11championship.
02:12Your guys' energy when we had our downs was off the charts, and I want to thank you for it.
02:23This is what it's all about. The New York Knicks.
02:27What is New York if not your back up against the wall? A dream that feels just out of reach.
02:32A rent payment you don't know how you'll ever make.
02:35What is New York if not 99.6% of the world stacked against you? And who are New Yorkers
02:41if not people who hear those odds and smile?
02:44I chose the New York Knicks because I chose New York City.
02:50The Cardiac Kids. No quit.
02:54Really representing the grit and the character of the people of New York.
03:09It's over. It's over. Knicks fans, this is not a dream. Your long, long wait has ended.
03:17Go ahead and cry. After 53 years, the Knicks are finally NBA champions once again.
03:27There's a lot of people that have a lot of negative stuff to say, but when you prove them wrong,
03:33you don't have to say shit to them.
03:43So often when this city comes together, it is because we are forced to.
03:47By a moment of tragedy or adversity.
03:50What a gift it is to be brought together by pure, unfiltered joy.
03:55It's the greatest day of my life.
03:56For as long as we live, we will remember this feeling of a city together.
04:01A city alive.
04:02A city overcome by happiness.
04:05A city overcome by happiness.
04:31We've all just kind of wondered like when New York would be back.
04:34And I think you can officially say like New York is fucking back.
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