From San Antonio to New York City, follow Andscape’s coverage of the 2026 NBA Finals with columnist William C. Rhoden and senior NBA writer Marc J. Spears.
I met with filmmaker Spike Lee in his Brooklyn studio to talk about his long and sometimes tortured love affair with the New York Knicks.
Lee was a teenager when the Knicks won their first title in 1970. We talked about how that moment cemented a lifetime connection to his home team and what a championship 53 years later would mean to him and the city.
William C. Rhoden is a columnist for Andscape and the author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete. He directs the Rhoden Fellows, a training program for aspiring journalists from HBCUs.
