New York City will celebrate the New York Knicks on Thursday, after the team won the first NBA championship the franchise has seen in more than 50 years. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is speaking out ahead of Thursday’s championship parade. He is in awe of what this basketball team has done.
“I think it will be an outpouring of emotion that so many have kept inside for so many years,” Mamdani said about the parade, per WNYC Radio. “This Knicks team has given us something that I truly haven’t seen in my entire life.”
Thursday’s parade in New York will be the first-ever ticker-tape parade celebrating a Knicks championship. The team last won the NBA Finals in 1973.
New York City is making preparations for the parade. That includes the installation of blue and orange street signs, as well as other measures.
“The city is distributing 2,500 pounds of shredded paper to office buildings along the route for workers to toss out their windows onto the festivities below,” Gothamist reported.
It has been a long time since New York was this good. The Knicks last made the NBA Finals in 1999. That season, the team lost to the San Antonio Spurs. This season, the Knicks defeated the Spurs in five games in the finals.
The Knicks’ run to the NBA championship this season got New York City buzzing. Watch parties sprouted all over the city, with thousands of New Yorkers taking to the streets following the Knicks’ championship victory in Game 5.
Thursday’s parade in New York City will start in Battery Park, before heading to City Hall. The Knicks team will be getting the keys to the city, Mamdani announced.
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