Wake Up Barstool Goes Full Knicks Title Hangover

They also took a beat to actually honor the moment with a tip of the cap to the late great Bing Bong era — the meme that carried Knicks fandom through some genuinely dark basketball — before pivoting to the financial reality of what Jalen Brunson did. PMT keeps hammering the point that Brunson took a reported $100M pay cut to stay in New York and chase exactly this, which is the kind of decision that ages from 'crazy' to 'legend' the second a trophy gets handed out.

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Jalen Brunson took a 100 million dollar pay cut to win a championship @reeses

That same Brunson energy is why nobody on the Knicks side had any interest in Stephen A. Smith's mea culpa on First Take. Eric Hubbs flagged how visibly unbothered Brunson was by the apology, which is the correct response when a guy who spent years dunking on your ceiling tries to slide back in once the banner is going up. Meanwhile Chicks in the Office made sure the celebrity wing got its due, with Karl-Anthony Towns hoisting the trophy and superfan Timothee Chalamet floating around the locker room like he just got drafted.

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We’re so happy for the Knicks (and Timothée Chalamet)

Sports Central closed the loop with the take that ties the whole morning together: this Knicks team was simply the perfectly constructed roster to beat the Spurs, and they might be the most likable champ in recent memory. Whether you buy that or think it's a New York fan-base hallucination, the evidence is right there in the feed — even Clem's For You Page is, by his own sarcastic admission, nothing but curated Knicks content on a 48-hour loop. The hangover is just getting started.