Jalen Brunson sacrificed millions. Karl-Anthony Towns waited years. Now they’re NBA champions.

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Brunson’s team-friendly extension and Towns’ long road through grief, criticism, and playoff heartbreak helped the Knicks end a 53-year championship drought.

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The Knicks’ championship journey did not begin in June. It began years earlier, through a series of decisions, setbacks, and acts of belief that slowly brought the franchise to this moment.

Before the New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, before Madison Square Garden became the center of the basketball universe again, and before New York celebrated its first NBA championship since 1973, two of the team’s biggest stars had already made their own private bets on the future.

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