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Videos of New York Knicks<\/a> fans celebrating the team’s NBA<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Finals victory over\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>San Antonio Spurs<\/a> throughout New York City on June 13 went viral and inspired<\/a> athletes who feature for other professional sports teams<\/a> in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n New York Yankees<\/a> captain Aaron Judge<\/a>\u00a0is one of those athletes, and he has a special reason for wanting the Bronx Bombers to follow in the Knicks’ footsteps later this\u00a0<\/span>year.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “There\u2019s a lot of winning going on in New York,\u00a0<\/span>so we got to keep that going,” Judge recently told\u00a0<\/span>Michael Sebastian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Esquire. “I like the team we have. I like the opportunity we\u2019ve got in front of us. It\u2019s going to be an exciting rest of the year. A Knicks championship in June and a Yankees World Series in October would bring world peace.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Of course, the closest Judge has thus far come to experiencing all that the Knicks are enjoying this spring occurred when he helped the Yankees reach the 2024 World Series. The Yankees lost that series to the\u00a0<\/span>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in five games, and the Bombers later dropped three of four American League Division Series games to the\u00a0<\/span>Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> last fall. Across his most recent seven playoff appearances, Judge went<\/a>\u00a013-for-26 (.500) with a 1.273 OPS and seven RBI.<\/span><\/p>\n “I didn\u2019t grow up a Knicks fan, I didn\u2019t grow up a Rangers fan, but once you come here and you get a chance to meet those players and you understand what they\u2019re going through, playing in New York with the expectations in this city \u2014 I\u2019m a Knicks, and Rangers, and Giants, everything fan,” Judge said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nCould the Yankees bring peace to the world?<\/h2>\n
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