The lines outside the NBA Store snaked around the block in Midtown Monday, as Knicks merchandise has become the Big Apple\u2019s biggest commodity following the teams historic NBA championship.<\/p>\n
Thousands of diehard fans waited anxiously outside the Fifth Avenue retailer for over an hour for a slim shot at any remaining Knicks gear \u2014 still a better bet than ordering team merchandise online, which would mean the deliveries won\u2019t come for at least a month.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe line is an hour and a half,\u201d Brooklyn fan Ron JN Baptist told The Post. \u201cBy the time I got in there there were no finals jerseys, no patches, they were all sold out! I wanted the patches! I came for the patches! They said they were getting more in by Wednesday or Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knicks fans lined up around the corner at the NBA store to pick up gear celebrating the NBA champs. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n
Knicks merchandise flew off the shelves at the NBA store on Monday after the team won the NBA title. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n
Knicks fever continues to sweep the New York metro area after the team beat the San Antonio Spurs in five games to bring home its first NBA championship since 1973, led by finals MVP guard Jalen Brunson.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came for the Brunson jerseys, the patches and hats for my son,\u201d South Ozone Park resident Paul Seepaul said. \u201cI bought some stuff online but July 20 was the earliest they could get it to us and I plan to take my son to the parade on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n
The scheduled ticker-tape parade for the champs down the Canyon of Heroes could be the largest in the city\u2019s history, Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters on Monday. <\/p>\n
Fans outside the NBA Store, where the line stretched around the corner and onto Madison Avenue, said they were hoping to suit up in Knicks merch for the parade \u2014 but it got harder and harder to find gear.<\/p>\n
Fan Will Crespo shows off his Knicks gear outside the NBA store in Manhattan on Monday. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n
The lines are long at the NBA store, but online Knicks gear won\u2019t be deliverd for at least a month. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n
Ed L., 55, Flushing Qns resident, works at Citi Field in the warehouse.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to come here because online you have to wait until next month,\u201d said a Flushing resident who only identified himself as Ed L. \u201cThe 26th of July was the earliest delivery I could get.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He settled for a $50 Knicks shirt.<\/p>\n
Long Island construction contractor Will Crespo said he fared well, and even picked up three gold \u201cchampionship chains\u201d that he plans to wear for Thursday\u2019s parade. <\/p>\n
\u201cI also bought hats,\u201d Crespo said. \u201cI bought a t-shirt, but they ran out of the sizes of the \u2026 finals shirt I wanted. And the hats, they ran out of the ones with the champion patch on the side.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was just too much mayhem in there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lines outside the NBA Store snaked around the block in Midtown Monday, as Knicks merchandise has become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46940,57,37011,80162,9,1104,56,63,65,64,273,58],"class_list":["post-267883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-merchandise","tag-metro","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-parades","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}