{"id":713119,"date":"2026-06-19T07:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713119\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:21:18","slug":"knicks-mikal-bridges-shouts-out-dog-sonny-in-trending-video-from-nba-title-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/713119\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; Mikal Bridges Shouts Out Dog Sonny in Trending Video From NBA Title Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Mikal Bridges brought a four-legged friend to the New York Knicks&#8217; 2026 NBA championship celebration parade through Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bridges&#8217; dog, Sonny, accompanied his owner on a float during Thursday morning&#8217;s ticker-tape parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;That&#8217;s my son right there,&#8221; Bridges, who was wearing a Pac\u00f4me Dadiet jersey, told MSG Networks. &#8220;He takes care of me, I take care of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bridges first talked about his plan to bring Sonny to the parade in Monday appearance with his teammates on <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zHvKSbZf9GI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Good Morning America.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I just want to bring my dog on the float,&#8221; Bridges said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">That wish came true Thursday as the Knicks parade wound from The Battery to a championship celebration at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bridges averaged 13.5 points per playoff game and 10.4 points through NBA Finals game as the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Last Saturday&#8217;s Game 5 win marked the first NBA title in 53 years for the Knicks, as well as the first ticker-tape parade in the franchise&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikal Bridges brought a four-legged friend to the New York Knicks&#8217; 2026 NBA championship celebration parade through Manhattan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-713119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}