…But no one told that to the fan who rushed onto the court during Game 1 of the NBA Finals. The fan, who forgot to take his jacket off despite having written something on his t-shirt (we’ll never know what it said I guess), and failed to get Wemby’s head in the shot, risked it all for this footage. Come on, man, this is why God created photography tutorials on YouTube.

Are these Knicks inevitable? Maybe it’s too early to tell, but their star power is inevitable. Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler tells a story about how celebrity City slickers are taking over San Antonio, having already vanquished The ATL, Philly and Believeland. 

Some of the most integral teammates are not on the roster at all. The wives and girlfriends of these NBA Finals are famous in their own right, and some of them even ball, too. Meet the WAGS of the Finals here.

By now, you’ve seen the Manhattan subway station entrance (by now you have probably also noticed all of our top links are about the NBA Finals) enameled in Knicks orange and blue, and I know some of you detail-oriented freaks out there were wondering how they got the exact color match so fast. Fast Company’s Hunter Schwarz has the story here. Real journalism lives! 

Jalen Brunson has the clutch gene, but Karl-Anthony Towns was Game 1’s coolest KAT (cooler even than my kat), captivating the most hater-hearted fans from Boston and LA. His cameo in “The Devil Wears Prada 2” and its confluence with the Knicks seemingly eternal win streak had already won the internet. But it has nothing on this now-viral postgame interview in which he said he felt his mom watching him play. 

Why do we care so much about Wemby crying? The Spurs aren’t shedding tears about this series just yet, but it would be fine if they did, says Katie Heindl in this SB Nation piece. I personally love a good cry. I’m crying right now, even. 

As a member of the San Felipe Pueblo, Utah Royals midfielder Madison Hammond (writer, too, of the outstanding new Wednesday OffBallFC newsletter) is the first Native American athlete in the NWSL, and she’s laying the ground for future generations of Indigenous athletes. 

Hammond’s rich heritage made her the obvious candidate to help Nike co-design their 2026 N7 Collection — an initiative that provides support and sports programming to kids in Native American and Aboriginal communities. She was moved and surprised that one of the world’s biggest sports brands wanted to tell her culture’s story in that way. But that’s not because it isn’t already a story worth being told.

“There is a beauty within our [Indigenous] communities that can be amplified in the mainstream,” Hammond told me in an interview this week. “Our relationships with each other, with our families, with our beliefs, are a great example of loyalty and pride, which I feel like are two things that have really elevated my career. It’s not that our stories need to be elevated as a charity case, but they need to be recognized as a true addition to culture.”

The collection, which evokes the Southwest through the incorporation of colors representing Indigenous motifs like Pueblo architecture, water, clay, and mountains, is a stunner. “With this collection, I made one thing clear going into it: I wanted it to be a dope representation of us in a way that was not tokenized,” Hammond says.

For her, the color schemes and concepts remind her of her New Mexico home, and for Indigenous people that extends far beyond memories and nostalgia.

“The intangible power that comes from home has supported me as an athlete in a way that I didn't really fully appreciate until I was later into my career, but it's that sense of home traditions, customs, and beliefs that really has grounded me,” she says.

Her favorite pieces (mine, too, for what it’s worth, which I know is basically nothing) of the collection are the P-6000 sneakers and the jersey. Check out the N7 collection here. 

Gabby Golf Girl, or Gabriella DeGasperis, is a teenaged content creator-slash-trick shot connoisseur with over 1.5 million followers across her social accounts. She’s making golf accessible and fun to audiences whose desks it may never have come across otherwise. And she’s amassed such popularity, she’s drawn the eyes (and collaboration) of athletes like Stephen Curry.

And D’Angelo Russell. 

Her interview style is breezy and conversational, and her video concepts are fresh, like when she traveled to Texas A&M and challenged a frat house to a little one-on-one. And she gets really technical about the game in her videos, but not in a way that feels intimidating to a newbie.

At 18, she’s a natural on camera, but that’s probably because she’s already been creating content for five years (and playing golf since she was five). What started as posting daily golf workout videos, eventually turned into 260,000 YouTube subscribers, 253,000 followers on TikTok, and 1.1 Million on Instagram.

Quiz your friends.

Listen to the soothing sounds of basketball, by the world’s greatest composer (in my humble opinion) Nicholas Brittel and rapper Nas.

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