Live NBA App & NBA TV coverage starts at 9:30 a.m. ET as the Knicks celebrate their first NBA championship in 53 years.
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The parade is today.
The Knicks’ championship parade will wind through the Canyon of Heroes in downtown Manhattan at 10 a.m. ET today, with LIVE coverage starting at 9:30 ET in the NBA App & on NBA TV.
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Knicks-Spurs was the most-watched NBA Finals in 28 years, averaging 20.6M viewers per game on ABC and ESPN — including an average of 24.5M for Game 5, peaking at 33M.
The series generated a record 15 billion views and counting on social media, the most ever for an NBA Finals, while also setting a Fanatics record for most 24-hour merch sales for any championship team in any sport.
The league also had its most-watched postseason in 28 years across ABC/ESPN, Amazon Prime Video and NBC/Peacock.
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Lady Liberty herself, the astronauts of the first moon landing, and now, the New York Knicks.
This morning, the 2026 NBA Champion Knicks will join New York’s rich, 140-year tradition of honoring its heroes with a “ticker-tape” parade, celebrating the franchise’s third title.
NBA TV and the NBA App will have full coverage of the parade, beginning at 9:30 ET.
Today’s parade serves as an historic moment in the Knicks’ celebration tour, with stops across the television world already.
Whether you’re waiting along the parade route or just need more of a Knicks fix, Starting 5 has you covered:
The Knicks just completed one of the greatest postseason runs ever.
And our cameras were there.
Dive into New York’s path to the mountaintop with “Chasing History,” an NBA original series, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the champions’ journey.
It began in the First Round, with the Knicks against the Hawks.
Knicks vs. 76ers in the East Semifinals.
Knicks vs. Cavaliers in the East Finals.
Knicks vs. Spurs in the Finals.
There was 1:10 left in Game 5 of the NBA Finals and the score was tied.
Jalen Brunson slowly dribbled the ball to halfcourt, then darted into the lane, where he dropped in a six-foot floater over a crowd of Spurs defenders.
It was his 15th point of the 4th quarter and his 45th of the night – giving New York the lead for good.
One minute later, the Knicks were NBA champions.
Then: Rick Brunson holds Jalen as a toddler. Now: Rick, a Knicks assistant, embraces his son after New York’s championship-clinching win.
Brunson had just matched Michael Jordan (Game 6, 1998) for the most points scored in a Finals-clinching road win. But the foundation for the performance was built years ago – even before Jalen stepped on an NBA floor.
It traces back to his father, Rick Brunson, an NBA journeyman who spent nine seasons in the league with eight different teams.
And on Oct. 25, 2006, when Jalen was 10 years old, that journey came to an en
Rick’s promise became a blueprint built on repetition. From an early age, Jalen spent countless hours training with his father, refining the fundamentals and habits that would define his career.
The results followed at every level. Brunson led his team to an Illinois state championship in high school, won two national championships at Villanova and earned Naismith National Player of the Year honors in 2017-18.
But the work produced more than trophies – it gave Brunson a confidence rooted not in results, but in preparation.
Only three other players have scored 400+ 4th-quarter Playoff points in a three-year span since 1997: LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal.
That work allowed Brunson – a 6-foot-2 guard and second-round pick in 2018 – to overcome the questions that followed throughout his career, even when he arrived in New York in the summer of 2022.
Now, Brunson has a resume only three other players in basketball history can match, with an NCAA title, a Naismith POY award, an NBA championship and a Finals MVP.
That was capped by a legendary closing 12 minutes, as Brunson’s 15 4th-quarter points in Game 5 trail only Jordan’s 16 (Game 6, 1998) for the most in a title-clinching win since play-by-play data was first tracked in 1997.
But for Brunson, the moment wasn’t about history or pressure. It was about preparation.
For many fans, the scene is a dream.
Your favorite team ends a decades-long drought with a championship, and somehow, there you are in the locker room spraying champagne alongside them.
For Ben Stiller, a Knicks lifer, that was reality.
Shaun Powell has more on the Emmy-winning actor, writer, producer and diehard fan’s championship moment:
“Stiller and Spike Lee and Timothée Chalamet and John Turturro and other A-listers sat up close and absorbed it all.
‘An over the top experience’ is how Stiller described being connected with the team for almost two months …
But Stiller, much like Lee and Chalamet, grew up in New York and therefore attached themselves to the Knicks very early and a while ago.
They’re real Knicks fans and because of their authenticity in that regard, doors were open to them — locker room doors.
‘It’s been incredible to be up close and live it.’ he said.” | Read More
The Knicks’ last championship came in an era when the game’s greatest moments were captured on film.
Fifty-three years later, spin back the ‘73 vibes with a few of our favorite Finals celebration photos on film.
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