The The New York Knicks are advancing to the NBA Finalsthanks to some help from a wrestling ghoul.
That is not small. That’s what happened. The Knicks are headed to their first Finals since the Clinton administration, and a significant portion of the internet brings up Danhausen — a vampire-gremlin-ghoul character from the professional wrestling world who has a habit of cursing people who upset him — and nearly ruins the whole thing.
We say ‘breakup’ because Danhausen originally cursed the Knicks before their first-round series against the Atlanta Hawks. During his appearance on ESPN First TakeStephen A. Smith, who has never been accused of being easy to deal with, apparently rubbed Danhausen the wrong way. Danhausen then cursed the Knicks, and the New York team fell 2-1 to the Hawks, a team they were heavily favored to beat.
He then without a curse New York Knicks after the best singer of wrestling he paid him to Cameo to do so. “Well, I think I’ve been paid, so the New York Knicks, I think you can be damned.”
This tweet is currently unavailable. It may be loading or it has been removed.
The curse occurred on the morning of Game 6. The Knicks won by 51 points, the sixth largest margin in NBA playoff history. They then went on to win their next eight games without a loss, finishing the season with a 10-0 run – the fifth-longest playoff winning streak in NBA history, one game ahead of the 11-game run dating back to 1989 by the 2003 Lakers.
Mashable Trend Report
This tweet is currently unavailable. It may be loading or it has been removed.
This tweet is currently unavailable. It may be loading or it has been removed.
This tweet is currently unavailable. It may be loading or it has been removed.
This tweet is currently unavailable. It may be loading or it has been removed.
Clashes between the NBA and pro wrestling are not rare. Dennis Rodman famously appeared on the show WCW Nitro midway through the 1998 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz. Shaquille O’Neal has appeared many times in WWE and got he jumped on the table in the early days of All Elite Wrestling. That A unique meme of a young LeBron James taking a picture with his phone is from a 2003 episode of Monday Night Raw. Recently, in 2024, Knicks star Jalen Brunson got into the ring with Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton. June episode of Smackdown – just weeks after Haliburton eliminated New York from the Eastern Conference Finals.
So the vampiric wrestling gremlin paid in a cameo to curse the Knicks is, for anyone who has watched pro wrestling, perhaps the most surprising thing on this list. For everyone else, it’s admittedly amazing.
Danhausen, on the other hand, has a blast with it. He is already selling T-shirts commemorating the undamaged. He made his WWE debut last February and got off to a rough start, but he’s been around ever since the company’s second-highest product seller despite having fought exactly two matches since he started playing.
This tweet is currently unavailable. It may be loading or it has been removed.
So, did a wrestling ghoul cameo change the direction of a professional basketball team? Maybe not. Jalen Brunson is here very nice in basketball. Karl-Anthony Towns is a seven-footer who can shoot threes and run the offense. These things are more important than curses. However, they won the playoff game by 51 points, the same morning Danhausen was paid for his clean slate. They are going to the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years.
It’s probably bad luck. It’s almost certainly bad luck. Kind of unfortunate, though, that Knicks fans will be telling their kids.
