I’ve been watching sports for a lot of years, and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything as remarkable as the 2026 NBA Champion New York Knicks. The team culminated a 16-3 playoff run Saturday night (June 12) in San Antonio, Texas, ending the hometown Spurs season like they had the Cleveland Cavaliers, Philadelphia 76ers, and Atlanta Hawks before them. It was yet another come-from-behind win in a post-season full of them, just days after the largest come-from-behind win in NBA Playoff history.
Basketball
is a team sport, so we can’t credit one person for this Knicks team ending the franchise’s 53-year title drought and setting up a long few days for the NYPD. But if we were going to pick one… I’m a pro wrestling blogger, and we all know why you clicked, but I’d still have to go with NY’s star point guard who scored 45 of the teams 94 points in the clincher. That would be former SmackDown guest star Jalen Brunson.
But second on my MVP ballot would of course go to WWE’s Very Nice, Very Evil demon-person Danhausen, who used his possibly-real-who-knows curse powers on the team while beefing with Knicks superfan Stephen A. Smith on ESPN, then uncursing them in a Cameo right at the start of a 13-game win streak that lasted until WWE Hall of Famer Donald Trump showed up in Madison Square Garden on the same night Danhausen did during the Finals.
Because of that (and the fact his curse powers probably aren’t real), Danhausen escaped blame. The Wu-Tang Clan reverses the Trump curse, and the rest is history.
Earlier on Saturday, we heard that WWE’s planning to make full use of Danhausen’s connections to the World champion Knicks — and if at all possible, their existing connection to Finals MVP Brunson — when Saturday Night’s Main Event hits MSG on July 18.
The company was ready as soon as the horn sounded in Texas…
Gonna spend your human monies on those? Or will you be saving up to win the bidding war for Danhausen’s services the next time they’re in a win-or-go-home situation?
