Ben Stiller tells The Post how he’s reveling in Knicks being on cusp of title after years with ‘a lot of pain’

exclusive New York Knicks Stefan Bondy Ben Stiller tells The Post how he’s reveling in Knicks being on cusp of title after years with ‘a lot of pain’ By Stefan Bondy Published June 7, 2026, 8:28 p.m. ET Ben Stiller is pictured at the Garden on June 7. Charles Wenzelberg Ben Stiller, like so many others around NYC, had become numb to the losing, the dysfunction, the pain. See Also New York Knicks Jalen Brunson’s forever steal offered a big-game reminder The Knicks were accepted as “a joke,” he said, and standards were lowered to cope. “My whole life I’ve lived with this idea that, ‘Oh, the Knicks aren’t going to make it, the Knicks have never been good, the Knicks have been a joke for a long time back in the day,’ ” Stiller, the award-winning comedian and director, told The Post.

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