{"id":271369,"date":"2026-06-18T22:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271369\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T22:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:23:49","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-i-didnt-think-id-live-to-see-it-again-seniors-celebrate-long-awaited-knicks-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271369\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | I Didnt Think Id Live To See It Again Seniors Celebrate Long Awaited Knicks Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">While thousands of fans packed Manhattan for the Knicks championship parade, a group of Brooklyn seniors held a celebration of their own in Bushwick.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Round Table Senior Center hosted a watch party and celebration for longtime Knicks fans, who were unable to attend the parade in person. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The room was filled with blue and orange as seniors cheered the team&#8217;s historic championship victory.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Some of the seniors said they have been Knicks fans since they were kids, and lived through decades of the team\u2019s highs and lows. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Several also remember the team&#8217;s last championship in 1973, making this year&#8217;s title a particularly emotional moment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI didn\u2019t think I\u2019d live to see it again,\u201d said one senior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While thousands of fans packed Manhattan for the Knicks championship parade, a group of Brooklyn seniors held a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-271369","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\/271369","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=271369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}