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A Superbly Entertaining Sports Weekend

For basketball and hockey fans, last weekend was magic.
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A Superbly Entertaining Sports Weekend
New York Knicks fans climb on buses as they celebrate after they win the NBA Finals in Times Square in New York City on June 14, 2026. Adam Gray/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Last weekend was unusually eventful for fans of American team sports. On Saturday, the New York Knicks clinched the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship by defeating the San Antonio Spurs by a score of 94-90 in the fifth game of their best-of-seven series. The very next evening, the Carolina Hurricanes were crowned champions of the National Hockey League (NHL), winning the coveted Stanley Cup in a Game 6 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights in their best-of-seven series.

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Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.