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President Donald Trump with his granddaughter Kai Trump (L), Knicks owner James Dolan (3rd L), Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum (3rd R) and Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin (2nd R) attend Game Three of the NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 8, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump attended Game Three of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs on June 8, the first sitting president to attend an NBA championship game.
The Knicks entered the game against the Spurs on a 13-game winning streak but saw it snapped in a 115–111 defeat.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
