Where to watch the Knicks parade: Stream live as New York celebrates the NBA title
The Knicks are NBA champions for the first time in 53 years, and New York will celebrate on Thursday. The Knicks will hold a competitive ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, beginning at 10 a.m. The parade comes five days after the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the 2026 NBA Finals.
This will be the first showdown in Knicks history — they didn’t win one after one of their previous titles in 1970 or 1973 — and will be followed by a celebration at City Hall, where the team will be awarded the keys to the city. The parade route is set down the “Canyon of Heroes” on Broadway from the Battery to City Hall.
“For more than 50 years, the people of New York have been waiting for this moment. Through close losses, heartbreak and the hope that each year could be our year, this city did not stop believing in the Knicks. And this team filled that hope with grit, tenacity and heart – like the five cities themselves,” said New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a statement. “New Yorkers have cheered our band from packed living rooms in the Bronx to viewing parties in Brooklyn, from bars in Queens to Staten Island to Manhattan, and to Madison Square Garden itself. Now is the time for our city to celebrate together. Bing bong.”
Knicks championship show details
- Time: 10 am ET | The day: Thursday, June 18
- Location: Canyon of Heroes — Lower Manhattan
- Live streaming: CBS News in New York
Knicks parade route
CBS News in New York
The Knicks ended their multi-year title drought — the fifth-longest in the league entering the season — in dramatic fashion with a 16-point victory over the Spurs in San Antonio on Saturday. That came after a 29-point comeback at home in Game 4, which was the largest comeback in Finals history and tied for the second-largest single-season comeback in a playoff era (since 1997).
All five Finals games were decided by 10 points or less, and the Knicks won Games 2 and 4 by one point to join the 1975 Golden State Warriors as the only teams to win multiple games in the same Finals by one point.
Jalen Brunson, who set a Knicks Finals record with 45 points in Game 5, was named Finals MVP, joining Willis Reed as the only players in Knicks history to receive that honor. Brunson hasn’t been efficient, but he’s come up with big games time and time again down the stretch, and has averaged 32.6 points, 4.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists and two steals.
“To have the fans that we have in New York City, and to be able to bring home a championship after all these years is absolutely amazing. It’s a surreal feeling. I mean, I don’t know how long it’s been since that last buzzer, but I still can’t believe it,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said Saturday night.
“I push myself. I tell myself that I try to be there, all the things that I tell these guys every day that I try to do because — I don’t believe it,” Brown continued. “… I love my players, I love the organization, but most importantly, let’s go to New York. Let’s go to New York. We can’t wait to go home.”
