Thursday, June 18, 2026

ITP V.026 SPORTS: NEW YORK KNICKS CHAMPIONSHIP TICKER TAPE PARADE

 May be an image of basketball and text that says 'CHAMPIONS 2025-26 .26 NBA CHAMP Knieks AFinals'

 

 

For the first time since 1973 (53 years) the NEW YORK KNICKS basketball team are NBA. CHAMPIONS. 

THE. NEW YORK KNICKS BEAT SAN ANTONIO SPURS 4 GAMES TO 1 (94-90 GAME 5) TO WIN NBA TITLE. 

NEW YORK KNICKS guard JALEN BRUNSON scored 45 points and was named 2026 NBA FINALS MVP..  

There will be a parade down inn the CANYON OF HEROES IN NEW YORK CITY on THURSDAY! 

 

ITP V.026 EDITORS NOTE: 

ITP'S author was born and raised in NEW YORK CITY. We've been WAITING 53 years for a NEW YORK KNICKS CHAMPIONSHIP ..After many losing seasons and the '94, '99 NBA FINALS  heartbreaks, THE NEW YORK KNICKS finally did it and won it all. Now I can die happy.   

Thank you JAMES DOLAN (KNICKS OWNER) and LEON ROSE (KNICKS PRESIDENT and of COURSE OG ANUNOBY, JALEN BRUNSON and HEAD COACH MIKE BROWN)... 

 #VILANOVACONNECTION 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 FROM THE NATION: 

 

I want people to understand how it can feel to love a sport and love a city and then endure decades of disappointment over the inability of those two loves to align. The rhythm of the city comes with the beat of a basketball on the blacktop. But due to horrible ownership, this team has been discordant for decades—unable to move in concert with that ubiquitous beat. Basketball is life across the five boroughs, and having a team mired in defeat, scandal, and humiliation has long felt like a cruel fate.
I became convinced—and I was not alone—that however good the Knicks became, something would derail it: a missed layup, a disastrous shooting exhibition during a critical playoff game, an off-court scandal. These past two months, during every Knicks playoff game, that feeling returned. Even with comeback after comeback during the Finals, I never felt liberated from the assumption that the Knicks’ magic would run out. But as we all learned, the team was never about magic, luck, or mystique: It was about will; it was about having the mental strength to not only win a title but lift a city on their backs. Read more from Dave Zirin: https://www.thenation.com/.../knicks-new-york-city.../

VIDEO BELOW: NEW YORK KNICKS GAME 4 COMEBACK (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF NBA)

 

 

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VIDEO BELOW: NEW YORK KNICKS NBA CHAMIONSHIP PARADE (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF CBS):  

 

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  VIDEO BELOW: NEW YORK CITY MAYORS SPEECH:

 Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-CONGRATS KNICKS \m/