Knicks Morning News (2026.08.20)

This was one of those mornings where I woke up and immediately started thinking about how unbelievable it is that we won a championship.

Thanks to his dad, my poor son has been suffering from KnicksMetsJets-itis since birth. He has known nothing but a merry-go-round of seasons that either begin with no hope or end in bitter, gut-wrenching playoff disappointment. I remember, among many other horrors for me as a dad, how inconsolably hard he cried when Beltran struck out in 2014.

He would often ask me over recent years if we would ever get to see one of our team win a championship together. We would talk about which team had the best chance to do it. I would generally default to the Mets because of Steve Cohen being so rich and the lack of a salary cap in baseball. Yet while there would have been a glorious sense of Dayanu if the Mets or Jets won just to get us off the dad-son schneid, the Knicks winning one was always the ultimate dream. And for us to be together when it happened was such a great gift, I can’t really express it in words.

He told me the other day that not having any anxiety that he would go through his entire life without ever experiencing a championship has made a huge difference for him. To know that I can go through whatever time I have left and never have to put on a brave face and console him again with the disingenuous platitude, “It’s okay, son, it’s only sports” is such a big deal. Only now can I say that all the pain and anxiety was worth it.