The New York Knicks return home Monday night for Game 3 of the NBA Finals with a 2-0 series lead, a strong playoff showing and a city hanging on every shot. But the basketball itself is only part of the story.
As New York prepares for its biggest basketball game in decades, an unlikely cast of characters has found itself swept into the orbit of the Finals: Elmo, President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In most places, those names would never belong in the same conversation. In New York, they somehow make perfect sense.
