The Knicks are getting extra support in San Antonio from another New York athletic contingent in the Giants.
Quarterback Jaxson Dart and receiver Odell Beckham Jr. — and possibly a few others — are expected to travel to Texas to cheer on the Knicks in the NBA Finals, sources told the The Post’s Ryan Dunleavy.
The group was leaving the Giants’ practice facility in East Rutherford, N.J. and heading to Game 1. They’re expected to be back with Big Blue on Thursday.
The Giants, current and alumni, have supported the Knicks in these playoffs, with appearances at Madison Square Garden from running back Cam Skattebo and Super Bowl champions Eli Manning and Justin Tuck during the postseason run.
The Giants’ official account on X posted a “good luck” graphic on Tuesday with Jalen Brunson celebrating.
The trip for Beckham, 33, comes days after the Giants and the receiver reunited on a one-year deal following a tryout.
Beckham, the 12th overall pick by the Giants in the 2014 NFL Draft, had three straight Pro Bowl seasons in New York to start his career and four total 1,000-plus yard receiving seasons before he was traded to the Browns in 2019.
Beckham, whose one-year contract on the veteran minimum comes with no guaranteed money, said he’s excited to get the chance to play in New York again, even if that means he gets cut at some point.
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“I’m like, ‘Listen, I’m going out on my sword either way it goes. If that’s what you’ve got to do, you see I’m not best or fit, then by all means I’m good with it, I can live with it. I can’t live with sitting at home not doing it, you know?’ I just couldn’t do it,” Beckham said of a conversation he had with coach John Harbaugh.
“Like I said, it’s not who I am, so … I’m just here to enjoy the moment, work hard, we’ll see what happens.’’
Marring the back end of Beckham’s Giants tenure was the infamous trip down to Miami where the star wideout and several of his teammates were pictured on a yacht before the 2017 playoffs when the Giants were crushed by the Packers in the first round.
Of course, this trip comes in June — three months before the season begins — and not before a mammoth playoff game.
Beckham, in 2024, opened up about his biggest “regret” of the Miami trip.
“When the picture came out, the energy — I’m a huge energy person … everybody around me, even in my own self, I felt like we had lost,” Beckham said during an appearance on the “Punch Line” podcast, hosted by his teammate Marlon Humphrey.
“I had the best week in practice, I didn’t let it bother me, tried to dance it off … but deep down inside something had felt wrong. The attention had been shifted from the New York Giants versus the Green Bay Packers to this boat story. … My biggest regret about all of that is that incident allowed that to happen. Not that I went and had a good time on New Year’s. It’s that I put myself in a situation where this story could be used to create a distraction from what’s really going on.”
The Knicks will now hope the extra support gets them a win in Game 1 as they play their first Finals game in 27 years.
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