It’s the part that nobody wants to start thinking about.
Once the parade is over, once the liquor stops flowing, once the celebrations are fully in the past, reality comes roaring back. That means tricky offseason decisions. That means already thinking about what gives them the best chance to defend their title.
President Leon Rose and his staff have gotten their deserved flowers for the job they did building the Knicks into champions. The Jalen Brunson signing, the OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns trades, and the shrewdness in beefing up the bench.
But it will be difficult — or costly — to bring back such a deep squad.
The 14-year-old boy, who wasn’t publicly identified because he is a minor, was nabbed by the Boston Police Department just two days after the shocking robbery left the lemonade-slinging brother and sister traumatized.
David Byrne, 12, and Juliette Byrne, 11, were hoping to make some extra cash ahead of summer break, so they embarked on an age-old tradition and opened a lemonade stand near their home.
Two juvenile suspects robbed a lemonade stand at gunpoint on Wednesday. Boston Police Dept.
The children set up shop at the edge of a sidewalk on West Ninth Street. Two male juvenile suspects passed by their stand several times before finally approaching at 4:45 p.m.
The boys asked the siblings if they accepted Apple Pay, then one showed off a black firearm tucked into his waistband before they could respond, according to the Boston Police Department.
The other suspect snatched the cash box — but David almost protested.
“He walked over here, he said, ‘I might need to take the box,’ and he grabbed it with one hand, and then he showed us the gun,” David told CBS News Boston.
“My sister, she put her hands up, and I just said, ‘You can have it’. But after that, I was just a little annoyed because we’re 12 and 11, and you shouldn’t really do that,” he added.
The suspects bolted with the cash box, which contained roughly $50. Authorities later recovered the box, but it was empty, Boston.com reported.
One 14-year-old boy was arrested for the purported robbery. Boston Police Dept.
The siblings abandoned their stand and recounted the holdup to their dad, who called 911.
As news of the robbery went viral, the Boston community banded together to support the kids. On Friday, Brian and Juliette reopened their lemonade stand to critical acclaim from neighbors and city officials — including Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
“I never thought this many people would come. It really makes me feel happy,” Juliette said.
Half of the money raised on Friday will be donated to a local organization focused on preventing gun violence, according to Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn.
The arrested suspect is expected to be arraigned in Boston Juvenile Court on two counts of armed robbery and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, according to the Boston Police Department.
Mark Carney will meet his cousins on Sunday in Aughagower – the village his grandparents, Robert and Nora Moran, left when they emigrated to Canada in 1925.
SAN ANTONIO — You know what’s great about this, right? We can actually have a conversation about this now. We can actually line up on either side of the chasm and have a debate about this. Who ya got?
Which was the best Knicks team of all time?
We run the gamut around here, of course. On the one extreme we have the Yankees, and you sort of need a quorum to legislate the question, what with 27 championships to choose from. Do you prefer Murderer’s Row? The M&M teams? The Bronx Zoo? The latter Dynasty Boys? Step right up, sign up, let’s have a daylong referendum. Pack a lunch. It’ll take a while.
On the other, may we present you the Jets. With the Jets you have a choice of 1968 or … 1968. That’s it. No need to even flip a coin unless it’s a two-sided coin, both tails.
As California grapples with what experts are calling a historically unprecedented spike in rattlesnake incidents and fatalities, a quick-thinking preschooler in the Santa Clarita Valley may have helped prevent another tragedy after spotting a venomous snake inside a playground structure.
The close call happened around 4:30 p.m. Thursday at a preschool in the Saugus neighborhood of Santa Clarita, where a child noticed a rattlesnake inside a playhouse and immediately alerted a teacher, local rattlesnake wrangler Cary Quashen told KTLA.
A quick-thinking preschooler in the Santa Clarita Valley may have helped prevent another tragedy after spotting a venomous snake inside a playground structure. Facebook/@cary.quashenThe close call happened at a preschool in Saugus, Facebook/@cary.quashen
School staff contacted Quashen, who responded to safely remove the snake before anyone was injured.
Video shared by Quashen shows the rattlesnake coiled near the play structure as he carefully captures it using specialized equipment.
Rattlesnake coiled in the corner of a preschool playhouse. Facebook/@cary.quashenSchool staff contacted Quashen, who responded to safely remove the snake before anyone was injured. Facebook/@cary.quashen
“Thank God it all worked out fine,” Quashen wrote in a social media post accompanying the footage.
Quashen, who operates a rattlesnake removal service and dog-training program in Santa Clarita, said he was called in to ensure the area was safe and that no children had been bitten.
He later relocated the snake away from the school.
No injuries were reported.
The playground where the snake was found. Facebook/@cary.quashen
During the first three months of 2026, the state recorded 77 rattlesnake-related calls and three confirmed deaths, a dramatic increase over California’s typical annual average of zero to one fatality.
Medical directors and herpetologists with the California Poison Control System have described the 2026 figures as “highly unusual and deeply concerning.”
Experts say the early-year numbers are exceptionally high and historically unprecedented for the state.
So far, the state has recorded 77 rattlesnake-related calls. REUTERS
Quashen has become known as the unofficial “snake wrangler of Santa Clarita” after years of sharing videos documenting rattlesnake removals throughout the area.
Anyone who encounters a rattlesnake should keep a safe distance, avoid any attempt to handle the animal, and contact trained wildlife professionals if removal is necessary.
President Trump’s emerging cease-fire agreement between the US and Iran has drawn backlash among Israelis, with critics warning the deal could undermine the country’s military campaign and leave fundamental security concerns posed by Tehran unaddressed.
Trump said Sunday that the US and Iran were still on track to sign a peace deal that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, despite Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon that apparently infuriated Tehran.
President Trump’s emerging cease-fire agreement between the US and Iran has drawn backlash amongst Israelis. via REUTERS
But outrage has erupted across Israel’s political spectrum over details of the proposed cease-fire and Israel’s exclusion from being directly involved in negotiations led by the Trump administration, the New York Times reported.
The frustration was summed up in the main headline of the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot on Sunday, describing the agreement as a “bad deal,” the Times said.
Trump told Fox News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst that he asked Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, “What the f–k are you doing?” in response to the strikes.
The “memorandum of understanding” would extend the cease-fire with Iran for 60 more days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and create the conditions for broader talks over Iran’s nuclear program.
The backlash follows Trump’s anger at Israel-led strikes near Beirut on Sunday, which came in response to Hezbollah firing shots towards Israeli territory. POOL/AFP via Getty Images
At the start of the US-Israel-led war on Iran in February, Netanyahu said Israel’s objective was to eliminate “existential threats,” including Iran’s nuclear capabilities and ballistic missile program, the Times reported.
Israeli leaders also repeatedly demanded an end to Tehran’s support for hostile regional proxy groups, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the Houthis in Yemen.
But critics, including Former Israeli Defense Minister and right-wing politician Avigdor Liberman, contended that those objectives are absent from the deal’s framework.
Liberman called the agreement a “catastrophe from Israel’s perspective,” in a social media post on Sunday.
The “memorandum of understanding” would extend the cease-fire with Iran for 60 more days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and create the conditions for broader talks over Iran’s nuclear program. AFP via Getty Images
An Israeli briefed on the deal with Iran told the Times that the cease-fire does not answer questions about the treatment of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium and does not have enough curbs on Iran’s nuclear program.
Officials are upset that the deal appears to allow funds to flow back into the coffers of the Iranian government, instead of creating conditions for its collapse, and that there is no clear mechanism to force Iran to cut off support to proxy forces, the source told the outlet.
“No matter what will happen, President Trump will declare victory, a total win,” Jacob Nagel, a former acting national security adviser to Netanyahu, also said during a video briefing described by the paper.
“It’s very easy to say what topics will be up for future negotiations,” Nagel said, adding that Iran’s ballistic missiles and its support for proxy groups in the region do not appear to be addressed in the budding cease-fire deal.
Netanyahu has avoided confronting Trump publicly over the negotiations as pressure builds from his governing coalition and Israeli national elections expected to take place by late October, the outlet reported.
A family source dismissed the previous assertion from Brooklyn’s rep, telling the Sun that it was “clearly nonsense” in an article published Sunday.
Reps for Brooklyn and Nicola as well as the Beckhams did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
The Beckham family hit back at their estranged son Brooklyn Beckham’s claims that his younger sister Harper’s recent, impromptu visit to his LA home was staged. (Seen above is David and Victoria Beckham at David’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony in June 2026.) Matt Baron/BEI/ShutterstockA family source shut down the claims as “clearly nonsense.” Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
As Page Six exclusively reported on Friday, Brooklyn’s 14-year-old sister was spotted visiting her estranged brother’s Los Angeles home — where he lives with his wife Nicola Peltz — shortly after she celebrated her father receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
But, sadly her efforts were to no avail, as sources told us Harper left the premises no sooner than she’d arrived without seeing Brooklyn.
The insider added that Brooklyn and his wife were unavailable. Brooklyn later shared via his Instagram Stories that he was in New York at the time of his sister’s appearance.
Still, a rep for the couple told Page Six, “That photographers were in place as the letter was hand delivered says it all — this was choreographed for the cameras.”
Harper briefly stopped by her brother’s Los Angeles home on Friday, but was unable to meet with him, according to photos obtained by Page Six (seen here). London Entertainment for CA PostA rep for Brooklyn told Page Six: “That photographers were in place as the letter was hand delivered says it all — this was choreographed for the cameras.” London Entertainment for CA Post
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Harper’s visit comes months after the 27-year-old chef declared he does not “want to reconcile with my family” in a bombshell social media statement, claiming his mother allegedly hijacked his first dance with Nicolaat their 2022 wedding and “controlled narratives in the press” about the famous family.
“I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life,” he said at the time.
“For my entire life, my parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family [with] performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships. … Recently, I have seen with my own eyes the lengths that they’ll go through to place countless lies in the media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, to preserve their own facade.”
Given Brooklyn’s statement, it comes as no shock that he also declined to attend his dad’s Walk of Fame ceremony.
The 14-year-old made the visit after showing up to support her father at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Friday (as seen here). John Salangsang/ShutterstockBrooklyn (pictured above at the Gymkhana opening in January), who declared that he does “not want to reconcile with [his] family” in January, did not attend the ceremony. Getty Images for ARIA Resort & Casino
In fact, a source told Page Six earlier this month that it was never in the cards for the hot sauce entrepreneur.
“Even if he did want to see them at the Walk of Fame, Nicola would not take too kindly to it,” the insider told Page Six.
Another source said, “Two things can be true; Nicola can be difficult and Brooklyn does not want to see his parents.”
Four years ago, the squad relied on the so-called MMA unit of Yunus Musah, Weston McKennie and Tyler Adams that started every game. But this time around Malik Tillman has supplanted Musah in a new MMA — and perhaps better one.
“He’s a fantastic player,” Folarin Balogun said of Tillman. “I think you saw that [Friday]. He’s constantly attacking, was unlucky not to have a goal. But Malik’s a great player. We’re going to need him if we’re gonna do good things in this tournament.”
The U.S. team started with a pretty good thing, a 4-1 rout of Paraguay to open Group D. Though Balogun scored a brace and Christian Pulisic may have been the best player on the field, Tillman was one of the standouts. It may have marked the 24-year-old’s best performance for the national team.
“It felt great. Obviously it’s a great start from all of us. Very important. The whole team played very well, especially in the first half,” Tillman said. “Amazing. Proud moment.
“I think it’s the first game my mom watched live when I was playing for the national team. Very, very special moment. … Yeah, I saw her after the game. I saw her before the game as well. She’s incredibly proud so it was amazing to see her.”
Tillman showed not just technical ability but tactical versatility.
“Malik has creativeness in him,” McKennie said. “I have creativeness, and I’m a workhorse; Tyler’s like a dog that just covers ground everywhere and gets stuck in.”
Manager Mauricio Pochettino has tasked Tillman with playing a deeper role than he did last year with PSV Eindhoven, where he was a successful No. 10. It’s more defensive minded, akin to this season at Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen, where he was often deployed as a No. 8.
United States’ Malik Tillman, right, and Paraguay’s Gustavo Gomez battle for the ball during the World Cup Group D soccer match between the United States and Paraguay in Inglewood, Calif., near Los Angeles, Friday, June 12, 2026. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill Folarin Balogun of the U.S. celebrates with Antonee Robinson and Malik Tillman after scoring a goal that was later disallowed. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters
Friday marked his second match with the U.S. playing deeper, next to Adams with McKennie getting forward to support Pulisic on the opposite side behind Balogun.
It created an attack that Paraguay coach Gustavo Alfaro praised for its “complexity,” adding, “They create a pentagon in midfield. … They have a solution to every problem.”
Like the problem of Pulisic getting a knock and unexpectedly having to sub off at halftime. Tillman was asked to get back into the attack.
“I spoke a lot to the coach the last two days,” Tillman said. “At the end of the day, for me I think the only thing that changed is my defensive positioning.
“And on the ball, the coach gives me a lot of freedom to move and find the spaces and still be dangerous in front of the goal. Still also be able to help in the buildup. As I said, I talked to him a lot. There’s, in his eyes, this position is where I can help the team the most.”
