{"id":461,"date":"2026-05-26T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:08:09","slug":"thousands-of-knicks-fans-swarm-nyc-streets-to-party-with-team-headed-to-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Knicks fans swarm NYC streets to party with team headed to NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Knicks fans partied like it was 1999 on Monday night, punctuating a dominant run to the NBA Finals with a one-sided sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers that plunged the Big Apple into jubilant chaos. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=459\">Heroes, zeros from Knicks\u2019 Game 4 win over Cavaliers: James Harden was a mess again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The win ended a 27-year dry spell since their last Finals appearance \u2014 and Knicks nation was quick to use the opportunity to make up for lost time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city has been waiting for it since 1999. We\u2019ve been through so many losses and the fans have always stuck close. It\u2019s nice to finally be on the winning side,\u201d Kevin Calle, a 30-year-old human resources manager from New Jersey, told The Post outside of Radio City\u2019s watch party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our time. The team is made up of a lot of underdogs. Let\u2019s hope Manhattan makes it out alive tonight!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the scene at a Radio City remained under control, Madison Square Garden was plunged into a frenzy where thousands of revelers packed the streets immediately outside The Mecca.<\/p>\n<p>Some scaled lamp posts, while others used brooms to perform a ceremonial \u201csweep\u201d and hoisted themselves onto elevated ledges.<\/p>\n<p>Within an hour of the Knicks\u2019 clinching win \u2014 a 37-point drubbing of the Cavs \u2014 fans were chanting, \u201cf\u2014k the World Cup!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MetLife Stadium is set to host several World Cup matches in June and July. <\/p>\n<p>Many in the mob weren\u2019t alive to see the Knicks play the lat time they made the NBA Finals in 1999, when they lost to the San Antonio Spurs. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=457\">Knicks end NBA Finals drought after demolishing Cavaliers to complete sweep<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the New York summer. There\u2019s a lot of things going on. The Yankees are doing well, but we got the New York Knicks taking it to the moon. Taking it to the moon!\u2019 Juan Pablo Estupinan, 23, told The Post outside of MSG \u2014 while even younger fans crowd-surfed above him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re split in baseball, we\u2019re split on football, but New Yorkers are united with the Knicks,\u201d said Henry Hunt, 23, from New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crowd is going nuts. We\u2019ve been waiting for this for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knicks diehards who trekked to Cleveland for Games 3 and 4 threw their own party outside of Rocket Arena \u2014 turning it up right in front of despondent Cavs\u2019s fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s incredible. I\u2019m on top of the world. There is no stopping the Knicks,\u201d Tara Hochberg, 50, of Long Island, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want Wemby,\u201d Hochberg and dozens of others chanted, referencing Spurs superstar center Victor Wembanyama. And the same call echoed outside of The Garden as the Knicks await the winner of the Western Conference Finals between San Antonio and the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who attended Game 2 in the nosebleed seats at MSG, got in on the action poking fun at the decisive win over Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=455\">Trump\u2019s right: Beyond Iran deal, the Abraham Accords are key to lasting peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNYC Sanitation, I\u2019d like to report a sweep,\u201d Hizzoner wrote on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knicks fans partied like it was 1999 on Monday night, punctuating a dominant run to the NBA Finals with a one-sided sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers that plunged the Big Apple into chaos. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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