Overview
- The New York Knicks clinched the NBA title in five games to end a 53-year championship drought and have spent the week on a high-profile media tour.
- On Monday the Knicks brought coach Mike Brown, Jalen Brunson, and Karl-Anthony Towns to The Tonight Show where Brown recreated the chant and Brunson asked him to “put that to bed.”
- Brown explained the chant began when he coached a children’s flag football team while an assistant in San Antonio and said he carried the cheer into the Knicks’ locker-room rituals.
- Brunson and Towns visibly cringed and covered their faces as Brown performed the bit on-air, and host Jimmy Fallon jokingly urged Brown to stop, creating widely shared viral clips.
- The episode has become a celebratory cultural beat that humanizes Brown, highlights team chemistry under a first-season coach, and keeps the championship conversation centered on personality as well as performance.