Banner Night
LeBron James watched the Knicks' 1973 banner fly away.
Transcript
00:00The Knicks waited 53 years
00:02to hang a new championship banner.
00:04On Tuesday night,
00:05at Madison Square Garden, it goes up.
00:08Joel Embiid said he would skip the ceremony
00:10and wait in the locker room.
00:12The rings come out first.
00:13Jalen Brunson, Finals MVP,
00:16holds his up.
00:17Twenty thousand people stand up at once.
00:19In a paper arena,
00:20that is a lot of air.
00:22LeBron James, in his first game
00:26for Philadelphia, watches it go.
00:27At the Finals in June,
00:28Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun
00:30sat three rows back.
00:32He did not watch the ceremony.
00:34The ceremony came to him.
00:36The 1970 banner is still up there.
00:39For now.
A parody. The Knicks' 2026 title, the October 20 banner night and Joel Embiid's locker-room remark are real; these paper figures and everything that happens to them are fictional. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the New York Knicks, the Philadelphia 76ers, the NBA, Madison Square Garden or anyone shown. Images and voices are AI-generated.
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