Aaron Glenn reveals what the Jets can emulate from NBA champion Knicks

The New York Knicks were able to pull off something that the New York Jets have been trying to do since 1969 this year, and that's snap a 50-plus-year championship drought.

For the first time since 1973, four years after the Jets' first and only Super Bowl championship, the Knicks can definitively say they're the best team in the NBA, and that's something a New York sports team doesn't get to say very often.

Jets fans are dreaming of the day that they can make their long-awaited return to the mountain top, and you can be darn sure long-time fans will go just as crazy as Knicks fans did when they finally won their championship.

Are there some things that the Jets can take from the Knicks (despite playing completely different sports) that could help them on their long road of returning to contention?

Aaron Glenn says Jets should want to copy the Knicks' competitive stamina

Speaking with reporters after the first day of mandatory minicamp, Jets head coach Aaron Glenn was asked what his team could take from the Knicks' championship run.

"I think those guys were down a number of games that they've played... You probably heard me say this at work before, but competitive stamina. And that is something that those men showed throughout that whole series... It's something that I've talked to our guys about... Once we come to training camp, you can bet your ass that we're going to work on competitive stamina because those Knicks, those guys showed it."

Aaron Glenn

Glenn certainly has a point when it comes to the resiliency of those champion Knicks. In all five games of the NBA Finals, New York was down double digits and found a way to come back in each and every matchup.

Now, football is different than basketball. It takes a lot more than just a 10-0 run over 60 seconds to erase a double-digit deficit, but the point still stands.

What we saw a lot from the Jets last year was getting down big early, and players, maybe not consciously, letting go of the rope.

If there's anything the Jets can take away from the latest NBA champions, it's that it ain't over until it's over, and if they can take that with them into the 2026 regular season, they should find themselves a more emotionally tough football team.

It's those kinds of baby steps the Jets need to take to start getting themselves back on the right track towards relevancy.

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