For generations of Knicks fans, the wait is over. New York City threw a ticker-tape parade Thursday, June 18, for the NBA champion Knicks — the kind of celebration the franchise and its supporters hadn’t seen in decades.
The parade rolled through Manhattan in the city’s traditional style, with confetti raining down on the championship team. New York hasn’t had many chances to fete its basketball club this way; the Knicks’ previous NBA title came in 1973, a gap of more than 50 years.
The championship run
The Knicks brought home the NBA championship this month, capping what the team’s fans had long considered an overdue return to the top of professional basketball. Ticker-tape parades along the Canyon of Heroes — the stretch of lower Broadway where the city has honored championship teams and returning astronauts for more than a century — remain one of the most recognizable civic rituals in American sports.
Thursday’s celebration drew crowds along the parade route as the current roster made its way through downtown Manhattan. NPR reported the event Thursday, June 18, citing the citywide celebration.
No further details on attendance figures or the parade route’s specific start time were immediately available from the source.
Originally reported by NPR. Read the original report.
