{"id":268174,"date":"2026-06-16T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268174\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T03:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:19:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-new-york-knicks-fans-say-theyre-ready-for-first-ever-ticker-tape-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268174\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | New York Knicks Fans Say Theyre Ready For First Ever Ticker Tape Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">For the first time in history, Knicks fans will be able to join the NBA champions\u00a0this Thursday for the team\u2019s first-ever ticker-tape parade in Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI&#8217;ve been waiting for 53 years for my Knicks to win a championship,\u201d said one fan, Abdullah. \u201cThey finally got the right team to do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">After a historic Game 5 win against the Spurs \u2014 the wait is over. Now, it\u2019s time for the city to celebrate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt is going to be immensely powerful,\u201d said another fan, Cole. \u201cIt&#8217;s going to be so positive. Everybody&#8217;s going to be having a good time and we&#8217;re going to celebrate the dub. Thursday is going to be insane.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Thursday&#8217;s celebration marks an even bigger milestone. Generations of Knicks fans will finally see something this city has never had \u2014 a championship parade for their team.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThe Yankees have been there,\u201d said another fan. \u201cMandela has been there. The WNBA has been there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The ticker-tape parade kicks off Thursday at 10 a.m. near Battery Park and moves along Broadway through the Canyon of Heroes to City Hall.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fans say they expect thousands, if not millions of people to show up \u2014 just as they did throughout the NBA playoff series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in history, Knicks fans will be able to join the NBA champions\u00a0this Thursday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-268174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268174","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=268174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}