Christmas … baby, please come back. The New York Knicks fulfilled that request and some in their latest holiday haunt, as a festive fourth quarter yielded a 126-124 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday afternoon at Madison Square Garden.
Jalen Brunson hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:05 left Thursday afternoon for the host New York Knicks, who overcame a 17-point fourth quarter deficit to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, 126-124.
‘Twas the best Christmas present a fan could ask for. In today’s holiday matinee, the Cavaliers (17-15) blitzed the Knicks (21*-9) early with an 18–3 run behind Donovan Mitchell’s hot shooting and finished the first quarter up 38–23.
The New York Knicks‘ 58th appearance in the NBA Christmas Day games isn’t going as planned. They’re going against the seventh seed of the East, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Christmas and the NBA go hand-in-hand. The day serves for the top hoops league in the world, like Thanksgiving for the NFL. However, while the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys are perpetual Thanksgiving participants, the NBA has mixed up the matchups and the teams throughout the years.
New York Knicks forward Josh Hart is heading to the locker room on Christmas Day against the Cleveland Cavaliers with an ankle injury. Hart suffered the injury midway through the fourth quarter when driving to the basket, he stepped on Cavaliers forward Dean Wade's foot.
Following their impressive run to an NBA Cup championship, The New York Knicks made the executive decision not to hang up a banner celebrating the accomplishment.
ESPN and the NBA are back again this year for Dunk the Halls, where a group of Disney players step on the court to play some basketball. This year, they’ll be playing during the Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks games, as they try to show the kids their array of skills on the floor.
On Thursday afternoon, the New York Knicks hit the floor at home for an NBA Christmas Day game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. The game was expected to be a battle of two of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, although the Cavs have not exactly held up their end of the bargain thus far, currently sitting at 17-14 on the 2025-26 NBA season.
If the best ability is availability, New York Knicks guard Mikal Bridges is the best in the league. As it stands, Bridges is the only current player with 500+ consecutive games under his belt, and he is chasing some records as we speak.
Merry Christmas, Posters & Toasters! The Knicks play today, as is their wont, and they will do so aiming at rebounding against no less than the wannabe Cavaliers.
When asked if they could name all of Santa's nine reindeer, the New York Knicks came up with some creative answers, including a few underdiscussed reindeer, like "Nixon" and "Connor." "Absolutely not," Karl-Anthony Towns said.
There are few sturdier NBA traditions than the New York Knicks playing on Christmas Day. The Knicks hope a pair of familiar faces make it back for the customary clash Thursday when New York hosts the Cleveland Cavaliers to tip off the NBA's five-game holiday slate.
Karl-Anthony Towns’ return home for the holidays was anything but a no-rough-stuff-type-of-deal for the New York Knicks. Towns recovered from a tepid weekend
Jalen Brunson is trying to beat the flopper allegations. The New York Knicks star Brunson appeared this week on Lou Williams’ podcast “The Underground Lounge.” During the episode, Brunson spoke out against those who accuse him of baiting referees into calling fouls by exaggerating minimal defensive contact.
The Knicks are open to moving Guerschon Yabusele ahead of the February 5 trade deadline, according to James L. Edwards III of The Athletic. Yabusele was New York’s top free-agent addition last summer.
The New York Knicks surprised and also delighted pockets of fans when they decided to not hang a banner inside Madison Square Garden commemorating their NBA Cup victory.