SAN ANTONIO, June 14 -- The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 at the Frost Bank Center on Saturday night to claim their first NBA championship since 1973. Jalen Brunson scored 45 points, including thirteen straight in the fourth quarter. The arena, by halftime, had emptied of Spurs fans. The four people most visibly losing their minds courtside were not, as the broadcast cut away, the players. They were Spike Lee, Timothee Chalamet, John Turturro and Ben Stiller - the four most-famous, most-decade-long, most-tortured Knicks fans in American show business.

Chalamet, ten feet from the court at the final buzzer, walked directly toward Karl-Anthony Towns and embraced him. The hug, by ESPN's SportsCenter sideline reporter, last...