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Knicks in Five! New Yorkers celebrate the championship with all-night party 25%
By Robert Barba0%
6/14/2026, 3:56:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Halo Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 25.8% saturation with 100 hits. Analysis detected 768 faulty-reasoning hits from 388 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37% and a BS Rank of 25% (16,586 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 75.80% of the article peer group.
Knicks’ victory in game five of the NBA Finals on Saturday night gave fans a reason to show the world why it is called the city that never sleeps.
Fans poured into the streets across the five boroughs to celebrate the historic win.
The Knicks closed out the series on Saturday, beating the San Antonio Spurs 94 to 90, clutching its first national title since 1973.
Shouting, car horns, fireworks and sirens could be heard in every corner of the city as the final buzzer rang.
In Manhattan, fans made their way up Eighth Avenue from the West Village, chanting “Knicks in Five,” and singing various odes to the city.
Knicks fans mixed with World Cup tourists in Times Square and video footage from overnight shows several destroyed school buses, including one engulfed in flames.
The NYPD said Sunday morning that it had made multiple arrests.
No casualties had been reported related to the Knicks win, it said.
Exact numbers on arrests, charges and damages would come later, it said.
Immediately after the victory, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city would celebrate the Knicks with a ticker tape down Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes set for Thursday.
Mamdani said the team would be awarded keys to the city during the parade.
More details on the event are expected on Sunday.
By dawn on Sunday morning, the party was still at a simmer, with young fans listening to music on stoops while police sirens continued to blare.
Times Square was still bustling at 5:30 a.m.
In Midtown overnight, mounted police officers began moving revelers off Ninth Avenue and redirected people toward Tenth Avenue.
At least two vehicles were smashed up near Seventh Avenue and 28th Street as police held the crowds behind barricades.
Plumes of smoke could be seen above the crowd.
Across the city, in places like Crown Heights in Brooklyn and Astoria in Queens, lifelong Knicks fans told Gothamist about the immense joy they were feeling from seeing the team they’ve spent their lives supporting win a championship.
In San Antonio, Knicks owner James Dolan spoke to those people in an interview with ESPN.
“Hey, New York, I’m sorry it took so long, but here we are and hopefully it won’t take that long again,” Dolan said.
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