Danhausen took the curse off the New York Knicks on April 28, and the team has not lost a game since. The WWE wrestler had hexed them on 11 days earlier during a live TV beef with Stephen A. Smith, then reversed course after a Knicks fan on Cameo offered to pay him.
That reversal has become part odd sports footnote, part playoff superstition, because the Knicks immediately started winning again and pushed through the postseason with sweeps of the Philadelphia 76ers and Cleveland Cavaliers. The run has been so dominant that it includes the most lopsided 10-game scoring differential stretch in NBA history, which is why the Danhausen story is still being searched now.
Danhausen built his act around theatrical curses, so the whole episode fit neatly into the kind of celebrity hex lore that sports fans love to treat as half joke, half omen. Lil B once said, “Welcome home KD,” after lifting his curse on Kevin Durant when he joined the Golden State Warriors, while Azealia Banks and the Kardashian Curse have each been pulled into the same strange conversation about bad luck and fame.
But the Knicks run also gives the story a sharper edge than a gimmick alone. Within a week of the April 17 hex, New York was losing to the Atlanta Hawks, and after April 28 it flipped instantly, raising the obvious question that no one in the room can prove: whether Danhausen changed the Knicks, or whether the Knicks simply turned the curse into a punchline they played through better than anyone expected.
If the Knicks finish the job and win the NBA Finals, they will have Danhausen to thank in the sense that matters most in sports: the timing will have lined up too neatly to ignore. For now, the more concrete fact is that the curse is gone, the wins are back, and the wrestler who put a spell on New York may have left his strangest mark on a playoff run that still has miles to go.
