The Knicks won a championship, and now the victory lap is rolling through every borough. First stop: Yankee Stadium, where Brunson and Hart pulled on pinstripes and took the mound for ceremonial first pitches in front of a packed house. It's the kind of moment New York sports fans wait decades for, and the Yankees made sure to roll out the carpet.
The two Knicks stars walking out in Yankees jerseys before delivering their pitches from the mound.
There's no version of this that doesn't rule. Two guys who just delivered the city its long-awaited banner, standing on the most famous mound in baseball, in the most famous jersey in baseball. Hubbs said it best — this never gets old, and it shouldn't. The Knicks haven't had a moment like this in a generation, and every photo op from here until training camp is going to hit a little different.
Hubbs soaking in the pageantry of the first-pitch ceremony as the duo work the crowd.
The dream doesn't stop at the Bronx, either. The natural next ask is a coin toss at MetLife to round out the New York trifecta — Yankees, Giants, Knicks — even if Brunson's well-documented Eagles fandom complicates the Giants leg of that tour. It's the kind of wishful booking only a championship summer earns you.
Brunson and Hart stuck around to catch a Cody Bellinger 2-run homer, because of course they did.
And they got a show for their trouble — Bellinger went deep, the Bronx popped, and the championship Knicks got a postcard night out at the ballpark. The parade is still to come, the offseason takes are already cranking, but the summer of Knicks is officially underway. Pinstripes, first pitches, and a Belli bomb to cap it. Not a bad opening act.