Knicks’ chaos-causing win: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Destruction in New York City following the Knicks’ first NBA championship win in 53 years.
To anybody who believes in sheer laborious work, focus, all-round self-discipline and teamwork, the 2026 NBA Champion Knicks are a dwelling instance of what is feasible (“Dancing in the streets,” June 14)
What stood out most was the emergence of Jalen Brunson. His crowning glory isn’t simply the historic win or being named MVP after his mesmerizing 45-point efficiency in Game 5. It is his constant, cool demeanor. He at all times believed they might get the job finished.
Take a bow, Team Knicks, and everybody who made this occur.
Atul Karnik
Woodside
Welcome, Jalen Brunson, to the pantheon of New York sports activities champions. That record contains Joe Namath, Tom Seaver, Walt Frazier, Reggie Jackson, Ray Knight, Mark Messier, Derek Jeter and Eli Manning.
New York needed a champion. The Knicks are simply that.
Richard Melnick
Astoria
I do know many neighborhoods had crowds, however shout out to Second Avenue on the Upper East Side. We had fire vehicles, bar crowds 5 people deep watching the skin TV displays and an impromptu stroll down the center of the avenue as the gang walked home en masse.
Adam Silbert
Manhattan
Americans and New Yorkers embrace and recognize a staff. This is a group of gamers that’s unheard of in right now’s NBA. These guys are a actual staff! They signify what this nation could be and has been. Go Knicks!
Michael Charles
St. Lucie, Fla.
Congratulations to the world champion Knicks. Coach Mike Brown did a masterful job guiding the staff, stressing powerful protection. Jalen Brunson has emerged as an NBA celebrity.
Sadly, deranged followers destroyed 5 faculty buses within the post-game celebration (“Anarchy in the Big Apple,” June 15).
Hopefully, Thursday’s victory parade can be a joyous occasion. The future looms shiny for the Knicks.
Matt Engel
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
A lifelong New York Knicks fan, I’ve been to the earlier two Knicks championships in 1970 and 1973. What occurred on Saturday night time in New York City was appalling. School buses have been ripped aside and burned during what was alleged to be a joyous event.
The Knicks actually deserve a parade, however not on the expense of more harmful and deadly conduct from so-called followers. Unless the mayor, the NYPD and the Knicks can come up with an acceptable plan for a protected parade, it mustn’t happen. The security of people and property ought to come first.
Marc Lamport
Whitestone
Mayor Mamdani missed a good alternative to showcase progressive public-safety idea in actual time after the Knicks’ win.
Instead of deploying officers, he may have despatched out groups of social staff to clarify to the rioters that arson will not be typically considered constructive civic participation.
I don’t assume this is able to have stopped the harmful conduct. But at the least New Yorkers would lastly have obtained a dwell demonstration of the speculation.
André Montero
Brooklyn
Watching and studying the studies of the so-called “celebrations” by Knicks followers, I believed of John Carpenter’s “Escape From New York.” It took 46 years for fiction to develop into a actuality, beginning when our present mayor took workplace.
T. King
Manhattan
The sickening scene in New York City after the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs was removed from the primary time that so-called “fans” behaved more like Jan. 6 goons than followers of a sport.
What is it about a staff’s championship victory that triggers such violence from in any other case civil segments of the population?
Vin Morabito
Scranton, Pa.
The photographs of the town after the Knicks received convey back recollections of the George Floyd riots. Those occasions made rioting, looting, vandalism and violence acceptable and regular conduct. Protesting or celebrating are simply excuses for this disgusting conduct.
Judy Riccuiti
Farmingdale
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