The Update- June 3rd

In today’s edition of The Update Journal, the NBA Finals start today, which means New York has officially entered its most dangerous emotional state: confident, confused, and wearing old jerseys from a closet that hasn’t been opened since 1999. We preview Knicks vs. Spurs the only honest way possible — by admitting nobody knows what’s going to happen and calling that journalism.Then, Mayor Mamdani takes emergency action and repeals bedtime so New York children can stay up for the Finals — even though most of them weren’t alive the last time the Knicks got this far, and, disturbingly, some of their parents weren’t either. Naturally, the kids respond by forming a Knicks caucus, demanding juice boxes during halftime, and asking why Allan Houston isn’t on TikTok.And in Brandon’s Take this week, we investigate the June Fake-Out: the annual scam where summer technically begins, but school, work, responsibilities, and random 63-degree mornings refuse to leave the building. It’s June, the calendar says summer is close, but emotionally? We’re still being held hostage by spring with a bad attitude.In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot, won the New Jersey Democratic primary in the battleground 7th Congressional District to take on Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr., who has been absent from Congress with an unspecified illness for months. Kean cruised to the Republican nomination after running unopposed. The powerful teachers’ union delivered a master class in wheeling and dealing — winning pay bumps of up to $9,500 as part of a deal delaying New York’s class size mandate.And in Detroit, Two scientists at a U.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated monkeypox virus into the country from Africa and lying about it during interviews with investigators at a Michigan airport, authorities said.