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There’s nothing easy about the Knicks’ repeat challenge — here’s why they can pull it off

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Vaccaro, M. (2026, October 17). There’s nothing easy about the Knicks’ repeat challenge — here’s why they can pull it off. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/17/sports/theres-nothing-easy-about-the-knicks-repeat-challenge-heres-why-they-can-pull-it-off/

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The New York Knicks face significant challenges in defending their NBA title from the previous season, as noted by Mike Vaccaro in the New York Post on October 17, 2026. Unlike the confident Pat Riley, who famously declared his Los Angeles Lakers would repeat their championship the following year, current Knicks coach Mike Brown approaches the task with a more subdued and cautious optimism. While Riley's brash declarations were emblematic of the Lakers' arrogance, the Knicks embrace humility after years of collective disappointment. This nuanced approach reflects the team's desire to avoid past mistakes and build on their recent success, though it contrasts starkly with Riley’s flamboyant and unapologetic self-assurance that characterized his era as a coach.

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🔮 At the ’88 parade, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar playfully stuffed a towel in Riley’s mouth before he could make a similar guarantee — although Riles, being Riles, did officially trademark the term “three-peat,” and has happily donated the resulting proceeds when the Bulls and Yankees actually pulled it off.

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🔮 Sign Up Now“Just hating,” he would say late Wednesday, “every single moment of it.”

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🔮 That one was allowed to stand, regardless of how unfair it might’ve been to objective eyes.

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🔮 Sign Up NowSoon, the contents of those bottles were cascading off Murphy’s head and shoulders, and Granderson yelled, “To the mighty Bambino!”

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🔮 This has never been what you would call a standard house of horrors.

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🔮 This was back in the spring of 1994, the beginning of a playoff march that would carry the Knicks to the very brink of ending a 21-year championship drought that would instead reach 53 years before being quashed.

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🔮 — would you sign up for that?

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Knicks Laker Lakers Los Angeles NBA

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Knicks ORG · 3× Lakers ORG · 3× Riley PERSON · 3× NBA ORG · 2× Riles PERSON · 2× Kareem Abdul-Jabbar PERSON · 1× Laker ORG · 1× Los Angeles GPE · 1× Pat Riley PERSON · 1× Pistons ORG · 1×

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Mike Brown and his quiet confidence will never be confused for Riley at his apex, when he merrily wore his unmatched self-assurance as a part of his game-day attire, alongside the hair mousse and the wide-lapeled Armani suits.

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2026-10-17 · New York Post

There’s nothing easy about the Knicks’ repeat challenge — here’s why they can pull it off · assertive framing

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There have been no declarations, like the one Pat Riley made at the celebration that followed the parade in downtown Los Angeles after his Lakers won the 1987 NBA championship. asserted

Lakers → make → championship

That day he grabbed a microphone and declared: “Next year, we’re going to win it again.” asserted

we → grab → it

Not every Laker was thrilled with Riley’s boast, but those Lakers were good enough that they pulled off the repeat a year later — barely — by beating the Pistons in seven. asserted

they → thrill → seven

At the ’88 parade, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar playfully stuffed a towel in Riley’s mouth before he could make a similar guarantee — although Riles, being Riles, did officially trademark the term “three-peat,” and has happily donated the resulting proceeds when the Bulls and Yankees actually pulled it off. uncertain

Bulls → stuff → it

he → confuse → mousse

It is part of why the Knicks retain the most lovable part of their championship armor, a humility born out of past collective disappointments and past individual disrespect. asserted

Knicks → retain → disappointments

It is probably why you don’t hear a lot of talk about the Knicks becoming the first NBA team since the 2017-18 Warriors to double up their championship run and go back-to-back. asserted

Knicks → hear → back

There’s nothing easy about the Knicks’ repeat challenge — here’s why they can pull it off

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