With the New York Knicks’ championship came a week of being fastened under the American eye, with a host of interviews since.On Saturday, the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA Finals to win the championship, the franchise’s first in 53 years. Since then, and leading up to Thursday’s championship parade, they’ve appeared on a host of talk shows and in other public settings, endearing themselves to America with several viral moments.Here’s a quick look at their post-championship media tour.James Dolan on the ‘Roommates Show’A pre-playoff speech owner James Dolan gave to his team went viral after it was released on social media Monday via the “Roommates Show” X account, the podcast hosted by Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart.
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— Roommates Show (@Roommates__Show) June 15, 2026In it, Dolan shared his confidence that this team, which lost in the 2025 Eastern Conference finals, was on the doorstep of destiny — a premonition that came true as the Knicks went 16-3, including a 13-game winning streak, on their way to a dominant finals victory.“In my 30 years of doing this, I’ve never felt close to achieving that goal,” said Dolan, whose father purchased the Knicks and Madison Square Garden in 1994. “Right now, I don’t know if you understand what it would mean for you to win a championship this year — to win the NBA championship. It will be life-changing for all of you. It will stick with you for the rest of your lives. And if you don’t win, you’ll be thinking about it the rest of your lives.”The clip also went viral for Dolan’s request that his players abstain from sex for 10 weeks to keep their edge in pursuit of a championship.“I had this idea that maybe you should give up sex for the next 10 weeks,” Dolan said. “You don’t have to give up sex for the next 10 weeks, but — like the Spartans, you know what Spartans are? They denied themselves, right? So that they can have an edge. Get the edge.”A commitment that center Karl-Anthony Towns said on “The Howard Stern Show” didn’t go over too well with his new fiancée, Jordyn Woods.“I’m a happily engaged man. I will definitely say, when I came home, and I told my fiancée what he said, she didn’t like to hear that one,” Towns told Stern, laughing.Knicks on the ‘Today Show’After winning the finals on Saturday, Brunson was left speechless when asked what it meant to win a championship under his father, Rick Brunson, who is an assistant coach for New York. Jalen Brunson won finals MVP after scoring 45 points in Game 5 and averaging 32.6 points, 4.6 assists, and 4.2 rebounds per game.On the “Today Show” on Monday, Brunson explained why he was at a loss for words in the moment.“I was just trying to find the right words,” he said on “Today.” “I really couldn’t. It was a magical moment. It was honestly something truly special that, no matter how I try to explain it. It won’t really grasp how special it was. I’m just happy that, obviously, I had my teammates with me, my family was there. To be able to do it with my dad as well, it was a really special moment.”Alongside fellow Knicks starters Towns, Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart and OG Anunoby, Brunson explained the connectivity of the group and how it drove them to break the championship drought in New York.“It’s the way we hold each other accountable. It’s the way we find a way to push each other, no matter what the situation is,” Brunson said. “Somebody may be feeling down about something that happened in the game, but it’s on at least one of us to pick that person up. And I feel like the longer we played together, it wasn’t just one person; it was everybody. We always had each other’s back. It made it 10 times more special.”Anunoby reflected on the Knicks’ legendary Game 4, in which New York came back from 29 points down in the second half to win 107-106 on Anunoby’s game-winning tip-in with one second left. While his celebration at the time, which put the Knicks up 3-1, was relatively subdued, it was only because the team understood the job had not been finished.“At the time, we had to get ready for Game 5, so we couldn’t be too excited about it just because we had to erase it and move on to the next day and get ready for the next game,” Anunoby said. “Now it’s a really cool moment. I love my teammates. I love these guys. I love the fans.”Anunoby on ‘Good Morning America’Speaking of Anunoby, what he shared on the “Today Show” was more than he could manage early Monday morning on “Good Morning America.” The entire starting five was interviewed there as well by Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan, and George Stephanopoulos.Stephanopoulos posed a question to the team about the impact of head coach Mike Brown. This same Knicks starting five bowed out in the 2025 Eastern Conference finals to the Indiana Pacers under head coach Tom Thibodeau, who was fired shortly after the playoff run despite having led the Knicks back to the playoffs for the first time since 2013 and making four playoff appearances in five seasons in charge. Brown was hired with the sole purpose of elevating that unit to a championship.Brown proved to be the main difference between last year’s disappointment and the 2026 triumph.Except Anunoby didn’t say any of that.The camera caught the forward, who took his first drink amid the Knicks’ championship celebration Saturday in San Antonio, hilariously staring blankly into space without answering as the question hung in the air.
