Cringe New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is facing backlash after botching a jab at President Donald Trump over his New York Knicks fandom during a recent press conference in New York City. When asked about a New York Times report that Trump is a lifelong Knicks fan who may attend an NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden, Hochul quipped that she would “ask him to name the starting lineup from the 1993 championship team and see how he does.”
Basketball fans quickly pointed out that the Knicks have not won an NBA title since 1973, when a team led by Walt Frazier and Willis Reed beat the Los Angeles Lakers, making Hochul’s 1993 reference historically inaccurate. In reality, the 1993 Knicks lost in the Eastern Conference finals to Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, while the franchise’s only championships came in 1970 and 1973.
The governor’s misfire came after Trump told reporters he had been invited by Knicks owner James Dolan and others to attend an NBA Finals game, praising the Eastern Conference champions and exclaiming, “Boy, what a team,” while noting he hoped to watch them in person. Trump, a Queens native and longtime New York sports figure, also said he had planned to attend a conference finals game at Madison Square Garden before the Knicks swept the Cleveland Cavaliers to clinch the series early.
On social media platform X, clips of Hochul’s comment circulated widely as users mocked her grasp of Knicks history and accused her of “airballing” a simple trivia test meant to embarrass the president. Fox News and other outlets amplified fan reactions noting that “there’s just one problem: the Knicks didn’t win a championship in 1993,” while users piled on with memes referencing the team’s actual 1973 title. Donald Trump Jr. joined the pile-on by posting that anyone who knows his father understands he “probably knows more about sports than just about any human being not in the business,” portraying Hochul’s soundbite as a failed attempt to question the president’s bona fides.
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