SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - JUNE 13: New York Knicks players celebrate while receiving the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy after defeating the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio on Saturday, June 13, 2026. (Katina Zentz/San Antonio Express-News via Getty Images)
Whew, Roomies! New York is still recovering because something very serious went down behind closed doors after the final buzzer, and lets just say the cameras barely scratched the surface. While the city was already losing its collective mind outsidesubways shaking, bodegas buzzing, chopped cheese orders going up in real timethe real scene was unfolding somewhere a little more chaotic. And yeswere talking about the moment the New York Knicks officially sealed their championship win and turned a quiet locker room into pure, unhinged celebration energyand now theyve already touched back down in New York like nothing even happened.
Roomies, the videos do not do this justicebecause as soon as that final buzzer hit and the reality of victory set in, the Knicks were losing their minds expeditiously. Like, no warm-up, no calm celebration, just immediate full-send energy the second they got behind closed doors. Inside the locker room, several players spray champagne bottles across the room, over each other, and even directly onto the gold trophy like its part of the ritual, while screaming like theyve been holding in 53 years of emotions at once.
Everybody was rocking matching championship tees and white hats with the team logo, passing the trophy around like it was a family heirloom, stopping every few seconds to kiss it, touch it, and make sure it was actually real for the camera. And just when you thought it couldnt get any more unhinged, Timothe Chalamet popped in and got absolutely soaked in champagne like he subbed himself into the celebrationstanding there grinning, drenched, and fully acting like hed been part of the rotation all season.
Even with a championship in hand, some of the Knicks are still out here proving they can win games but not always their phones. OG Anunoby accidentally gives fans an all-access pass to the locker room celebration after the Knicks Game 5 title-clincher, hopping on Instagram Live mid-chaos as champagne flies, the trophy moves from hand to hand, and Karl-Anthony Towns pops into frame yelling, We live baby, we live, fully locked into celebration mode with goggles on. The problem? OG immediately realized he had no idea how to end the stream, repeatedly asking, How do you end the live? while the party kept raging behind him, turning what shouldve been a quick moment into 25 seconds of pure button-mashing confusion before the video cut off with his hand over the camerachampionship energy in the streets, but still very much someone call IT in the locker room.
