{"id":365188,"date":"2026-10-05T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365188\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:52:10","slug":"knicks-champion-jose-alvarado-fights-back-tears-as-brooklyn-names-street-after-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365188\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks Champion Jose Alvarado Fights Back Tears as Brooklyn Names Street After Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jose Alvarado<\/a> already helped bring an NBA championship back to New York. Now, the city is putting his name on the streets that raised him.<\/p>\n

The New York Knicks guard became emotional on Saturday, October 3, as a stretch of Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn was temporarily co-named \u201cAlvarado Avenue\u201d in his honor. According to News 12 Brooklyn<\/a>, the designation, which will remain in place for one year, celebrates the 28-year-old NBA champion\u2019s Brooklyn roots and his role in the Knicks\u2019 title run.<\/p>\n

Surrounded by fans, Alvarado struggled to contain his emotions as he addressed the crowd. \u201cI come from the same streets y’all come from, and I’m super, super proud of that,\u201d he said. \u201cIt made me who I am today.\u201d <\/p>\n

After briefly stumbling over his words as supporters cheered, Alvarado admitted, \u201cY’all gonna make me cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Brooklyn and a former standout at Christ the King High School in Queens, Alvarado spent the first years of his NBA career with the New Orleans Pelicans before New York acquired him on Feb. 5. He primarily backed up Finals MVP Jalen Brunson but emerged as an important part of the Knicks\u2019 championship rotation.<\/p>\n

One of his biggest performances came during New York\u2019s historic Game 4 comeback against the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals. As the Knicks dug out of a 29-point hole, Alvarado played much of the fourth quarter alongside Brunson and added eight points and three assists. <\/p>\n

New York ultimately escaped with a 107-106 victory on its way to the championship.<\/p>\n

His connection with the city became even more visible after the title. Alvarado appeared at New York City\u2019s Puerto Rican Day Parade alongside teammate Jordan Clarkson, where fans greeted the Brooklyn native with chants of \u201cKnicks in five!\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Alvarado already helped bring an NBA championship back to New York. Now, the city is putting his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-365188","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\/365188","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=365188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}