New York couple names son Knickson Fyve after Knicks title chant - ESPN

Late at night on June 13, as the final buzzer sounded on the win that clinched the New York Knicks' first championship in over a half century, a popular question — equal parts joking and legitimate — began making the rounds: How many babies in the New York area were about to be named Jalen?

The reference, of course, being to star Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson, who dropped 45 points in the Finals-clinching win. That uptick might have already occurred. According to one report, 32 babies were named Jalen in New York City between March and early October this year — more than double the 15 from the same period last year.

Vance and Yvonne Bradford, die-hard Knicks fans who were expecting a child of their own that summer, had heard the jokes.

«A lot of the jokes going around, memes on social media, was 'There's going to be a lot of Jalens named after this. There's going to be a lot of KATs. OGs.' And everyone was joking about how many 'Knicks names' would come of this,» Vance Bradford recalled to ESPN.

But Yvonne Bradford had another idea.

After New York won Game 5, the Bradfords heard a common refrain among the full-throated jubilance of New York City.

«We opened our windows after the Knicks won and we heard the chants: 'Knicks in five! Knicks in five!' And that kind of sat with us,» Vance said.

«We had a boy name and we had a girl name. My wife asks me maybe the next morning… 'What about the name Knickson?'»

Initially, the plan was to just stick with Knickson (pronounced «Nixon») as a first name, and then go a more conventional route with the child's middle name. But then Yvonne posed the question: If they had already committed to the first name, why not go all the way?

«Two days later my wife was like, 'Let's go full