Knicks Fan Rich STILL Can’t Believe New York Won an NBA Championship This Season!!!

Every time Rich talks about the Knicks winning the championship, he says he sounds like the old woman from Titanic. On the day of the Canyon of Heroes parade, 53 years in the making, he watched the footage roll in live and could barely keep it together.

The scale was staggering. The parade started at 10 a.m. Eastern, but fans had been pouring in since before dawn, jamming the subway and stacking security checkpoints so long that the line for one collided with the back of another a block away. Rich painted the scene of New Yorkers in jerseys, which he noted are just tank tops, some wearing throwbacks they'd clearly had since summer camp.

Then the cars came, and Rich reacted in real time. There was Walt Frazier in a getup only Clyde could pull off, riding in a presidential-looking convertible, even though the Knicks, it turned out, never got a parade back in the 1970s. There was Bernard King, Rich's favorite growing up, the "Bernie and Ernie show" with Ernie Grunfeld before a knee injury changed everything. And there was Patrick Ewing, taking the victory lap Rich always wanted him to have, which is where Rich admitted he started tearing up, thinking of himself in high school dreaming these exact moments.

The emotional core was Jalen Brunson walking the route with the Larry O'Brien trophy, the King of New York, fans crushed against the barriers. Rich kept circling back to one phrase: he cannot believe it happened, and that it happened this year, when just twelve months ago the Knicks were knocking on other franchises' doors begging to interview coaches after firing Tom Thibodeau with no apparent plan, until Mike Brown took the job.

The James Dolan arc got the most self-aware treatment. Someone resurfaced a tweet Rich sent in 2019 calling on Dolan to look in the mirror, sell the Knicks, and take the billions home, a sentiment Rich conceded was tame compared to what he used to say into this very microphone, and possibly why the Knicks aren't rushing players onto his show. Yet there he was, genuinely inspired by Dolan's pre-playoff speech and his refusal to dip into the second apron, marveling that he now agrees with the owner he spent years roasting. Cats and dogs living together, as he put it.

The likability is what gets him. Mikal Bridges brought his dog to the parade. Karl-Anthony Towns rolled through with a big stogie, and Rich reminded everyone he defended that trade when fans mourned sending out Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo, having fallen for Towns the moment the Jersey kid started trolling TJ Jefferson. He even caught City Hall's mistake of hanging a banner for Dylan Jones, a Summer League player cut before opening night who wore number 33, a number actually retired for Ewing.

Whether or not the rest of the room wanted the six-day "Knicks-a-palooza" to end, Rich made clear it isn't ending. It's carrying through the summer, complete with merch, and watching Walt Frazier ride through a Canyon of Heroes parade in 2026 is, as Rich said, what it's all about.