{"id":271216,"date":"2026-06-18T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271216\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:16:08","slug":"bootleg-knicks-merch-selling-like-hotcakes-at-nyc-ticker-tape-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271216\/","title":{"rendered":"Bootleg Knicks merch selling like hotcakes at NYC ticker-tape parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are slam-dunk sales.<\/p>\n

Street vendors at the New York Knicks\u2019 ticker-tape parade<\/a> made a killing peddling bootleg merchandise \u2013 raking in thousands of dollars in just a few hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s live updates from the Knicks Championship parade for the latest city chaos, celeb sightings and sports reaction.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wan Ali, of Los Angeles, California, sold about 40 Knicks-themed bucket hats in just 45 minutes \u2013 at a jaw-dropping $100 to $150 a pop.<\/p>\n

Some street vendors have been making a killing selling bootleg Knicks merch. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did great, passed $10,000 this morning,\u201d Ali, 53, told The Post from his lower Manhattan outpost. \u201cBetter than New Years, because I didn\u2019t freeze and have to pay for a high dollar hotel room.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parade attendee D. Spin, of Raleigh, North Carolina, said he got sticker shock at first, but then still opted to snag a hat.<\/p>\n

Emilio Lora sold his t-shirt merchandise at the Knicks ticker tape parade. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

Ali was selling Knicks-themed bucket hats at $100-$150 each. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cFor $100, I wasn\u2019t sure,\u201d he said \u201cbut I was getting so many compliments on this hat [that] I had to come back and get some more stuff for folks back home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet another vendor was peddling copies of The Post\u2019s Thursday cove<\/a>r \u2014 with the wood \u201cKINGS OF THE CITY\u201d \u2014 celebrating the championship ceremony for a cool $20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These are slam-dunk sales. Street vendors at the New York Knicks\u2019 ticker-tape parade made a killing peddling bootleg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46940,57,21,9,1104,56,63,65,64,273,58],"class_list":["post-271216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-merchandise","tag-metro","tag-nba","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\/271216","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=271216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}