{"id":737306,"date":"2026-06-15T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/737306\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:27:11","slug":"knicks-championship-merch-flies-off-shelves-at-msg-nba-stores-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/737306\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks championship merch flies off shelves at MSG, NBA stores in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City was still rocking on Sunday, just hours after the Knicks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/nba-finals-new-york-knicks-san-antonio-spurs-game-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">completed one of the greatest championship runs<\/a> the Tri-State Area has ever seen. <\/p>\n<p>Fans were continuing to gear up for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/live-updates\/knicks-spurs-game-5-nba-finals\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">week of celebrations<\/a> that will culminate with a ticker-tape parade down the famed Canyon of Heroes in Manhattan on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Mad dash for championship merch at NYC stores<\/p>\n<p>The line to get into the Knicks Team Store at MSG store was surreal, considering the lack of sleep many Knicks fans got Saturday night after the team&#8217;s historic NBA Finals Game 5 win over the San Antonio Spurs.  The adrenaline was clearly still pumping throughout the city as the masses celebrated a feat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/knicks-epic-nba-championship-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">53 years in the making<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was just a mere preview of the excitement and celebrations set to take place this week. The Big Apple is now preparing for what will be a massive victory parade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need that championship shirt and the hat so I can go to my family members who are not Knicks fans&#8217; houses this morning, right now, to rub it in their face,&#8221; one giddy fan said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6-ramos-image-2.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"6-ramos-image-2.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Fans lined up early on June 14, 2026, outside the Knicks Team Store at MSG and the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue to buy Knicks NBA championship merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>While everyone had their own personal agenda, the common thread outside the store on Sunday was hometown pride.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was born in 1973, so I&#8217;ve never seen a championship. So this is amazing,&#8221; one fan said.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing would be one way to put it. Saturday night&#8217;s win sent fans at watch parties across the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/times-square-knicks-celebration-bus-lit-on-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">over the moon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/knicks-celebration-violence-arrests-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">into the streets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, anything orange and blue is in high demand citywide. At the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue, Knicks merch flew off the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To experience it with my kids &#8230; that&#8217;s what I told them. They made history. It&#8217;s amazing,&#8221; lifelong fan Lissette Acuna said.<\/p>\n<p>Knicks celebrate on the plane<\/p>\n<p>As the Knicks were about to take off from San Antonio for Westchester County Airport early Sunday morning, they were heard celebrating on the plane on air traffic controller audio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tell those guys congratulations, enjoy the moment,&#8221; a controller says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re enjoying it back there. You probably can hear it. They&#8217;re having a good time. We&#8217;ll pass it on,&#8221; a pilot says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City was still rocking on Sunday, just hours after the Knicks completed one of the greatest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,2087,167,2901,82],"class_list":["post-737306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}