The New York Knicks are NBA champions, and New York City is about to celebrate what generations of fans have waited their entire lives for.
More than 1 million fans are expected to flood Lower Manhattan today for the Knicks’ championship parade, marking the Knicks’ first title since 1973 and the first-ever ticker-tape parade through the city’s historic Canyon of Heroes, according to early estimates from the New York City Police Department. Mashable is right in the middle of the action, tracking the crowd’s biggest moments, documenting celebrity sightings, emotional fans, Mitchell Robinson’s tricked-out custom truck, and the chaotic moments the internet inevitably captures from Battery Park to City Hall.
Will celebrity superfans Timothée Chalamet and Spike Lee end up joining the team? Will Mikal Bridges’ dog Sonny make an appearance? Will Alicia Keys perform “Empire State of Mind” for the city that has been treating this past week like the official soundtrack of the NBA Finals? Will actor, director, and Knicks fan Ben Stiller film footage for an upcoming HBO documentary about the Knicks with A24? And will Fat Joe really be able to pull off a parade float reportedly packed with New York hip-hop royalty? I can’t wait to find out.
Watch as New York hosts its biggest block party in decades.
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