It is the Knicks chant that has taken over New York Metropolis.
“My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish. My Christian Dior, Knicks in 4!” got here when New York followers wanted it most. The group had simply misplaced their first playoff sport following a 13-game profitable streak and was solely main the Spurs 2-1 within the sequence.
One fan’s rallying cry turned a viral chant recreated by again and again by Knicks’ lovers throughout the 5 boroughs and past town. MD Ahnaf Hossain, a 23-year-old, turned a mascot for the group when a TikTok of his chant went viral final week.
Numerous iterations popped up throughout the web, mirroring the rhyming scheme — nearly at all times beginning with, “My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish” — after which shifting ever so barely when it was time for Recreation 5.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani was requested concerning the chant on MS NOW the morning after the Knicks clinched the NBA title.
“I have not met him, however he’s a New Yorker whose phrases have actually stayed with all of us,” Mamdani mentioned.
“Due to him, there are lots of people who’ve simply been operating as much as me over the previous few weeks simply shouting, ‘My Mayor’s Muslim!’ I mentioned, ‘It is true. I’m.'”
The New York Knicks captured their first NBA championship since 1973, defeating the San Antonio Spurs on the highway in Recreation 5 to clinch the NBA Finals and convey the Larry O’Brien Trophy again to New York for the primary time in 53 years.
The mayor, a well-documented longtime Knicks fan, was in attendance at The Backyard for Recreation 3, the group’s solely loss within the finals (President Donald Trump was there, too).
Inside an hour of the victory late Saturday, Mamdani introduced the date of a ticker-tape parade for the New York Knicks and a ceremony to present the group the Keys to the Metropolis. These celebrations shall be held on Thursday.
