The legendary ’26 Knicks: Letters to the Editor — June 18, 2026

New York Knicks owner James Dolan and the team celebrate after the Knicks defeat the San Antonio Spurs during game five of the 2026 NBA Finals at Frost Bank Center. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

The Issue: The New York Knicks’ first NBA championship win in 53 years.

Congratulations to the New York Knicks.

It was a long time coming (“Way to Go, NY, Go NY, Go!!” June 15).

Lest anyone forget, it took the Chicago Cubs 108 years to win another World Series, and it was 35 years before the New England Patriots hoisted their first Lombardi Trophy.

History has a funny way of rewarding patience.

You never know when your favorite team will finally go all the way.

Denny Freidenrich

Laguna Beach, Calif.

What an incredible season!

Basketball fans everywhere will remember the team that embodied New York grit, never quit and battled to the final buzzer.

Paul Bacon

Hallandale Beach, Fla.

Heroes are remembered, but legends never die.

The 2026 Knicks are forever immortalized as legends.

The arrival of Jalen Brunson changed everything.

He was born to be the captain of our Knicks.

The Josh Hart acquisition was a step that every team needs to make.

The OG Anunoby trade was the heist of the century.

Without these guys’ sacrifices, none of this would be possible.

Thank you, Knicks, for letting me share this moment with my two boys, as we will forever remember it.

Thank you for making us champions!

Scotty Gunz

Charlotte, NC

King Jalen and his Knicks of the Round Court have upheld the ultimate ideals of chivalry, courage and justice in the warring world of basketball by routing the roughlings of Sad Antonio and dislodging them from Wemby Peak.

Samuel Bahn

Manhattan

The violence following the Knicks’ win seemed indistinguishable from a hate-filled riot.

Such mayhem happened repeatedly at watch parties, outside MSG and around the city virtually every night of the NBA finals.

Yet the best The Post’s editors could do was a lame, “Yes, some of it got out of hand” (“The Knicks’ Other Miracle,” Editorial, June 15).

It’s hard to take The Post’s moralizing about public order seriously after this.

Rick Hinshaw

Lynbrook

With all due respect for the Knicks, before city money is spent on a parade down the Canyon of Heroes, our idiot mayor should worry about not axing a single school-safety agent due to a lack of funds (“It’s gonna be a ‘fete’ of history,” June 16).

Keeping our children safe should be Priority No. 1; having a parade should be Priority No. 2.

If the parade is that important, perhaps the billionaire Dolan family should pay for it.

Alan Brooks

Brooklyn

The Issue: Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire following SpaceX’s stock market success.

The left is sick about Elon Musk’s success (“Trill-Elon-aire into orbit,” June 13).

A Mexican immigrant came to work at SpaceX for $28 per hour as a welder and is now a millionaire.

Who did Sen. Bernie Sanders ever make into a millionaire except himself?

Whose life did Sen. Elizabeth Warren ever make better except her own?

I am so sick of these phony socialists who only want power and their dummy followers.

Carol Meltzer

Manhattan

A trillionaire?

I say no.

Elon Musk must go.

It’s time for a Second American Revolution, my working-class brothers and sisters.

If there ever was a time to take back our country from the uber-rich destroying America for their own financial gain, it’s now.

When a rich spoiled brat, neo-Nazi fan of institutional racism like evil Musk becomes a trillionaire, you know the time has come for our democratic republic to be restored by any means necessary.

Jake Pickering

Arcata, Calif.

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