New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to help out the New York Knicks. It seems unlikely to work.
Mamdani extended an invitation to San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama on Wednesday to attend his Commission on Government Efficiency Hearing from 5 to 8 p.m. ET on June 10. That happens to be the night of Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Spurs and New York Knicks.
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While the meeting technically ends a half-hour before tip-off — and Mamdani requested Wembanyama stay there the whole time — something tells us the Frenchman will have a scheduling conflict.
Wembanyama is currently the odds-on favorite to win Finals MVP, with the Spurs a -190 favorite to win the series.
While the invitation is clearly a joke, the meeting is indeed real. Mamdani will be hosting a meeting centered on “streamlining government for small business and community organizations” at Fordham University next Wednesday night.
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This isn’t the first step Mamdani has taken in response to the Knicks making the Finals for the first time since 1999 (when the mayor was 7 years old). He announced a repeal of bedtimes earlier this week.
That’s one side of the political intrigue in New York’s NBA Finals. Another is President Donald Trump saying he had been invited by Knicks owner James Dolan to attend a Finals game. He plans on attending Game 3, the New York Post reported.
