Ticker tape, the paper strips that transmitted stock market data, was just being phased out at the financial firms that lined Lower Broadway in Manhattan the last time the New York Knicks won an NBA championship 53 years ago.
So as the team made its way up the Canyon of Heroes Thursday morning, it was showered instead with shredded office paper and blue and orange confetti.
Knicks head coach Mike Brown.
Jean Palmieri
Even so, that didn’t dampen the spirits of the scores of fans that lined the parade route to pay tribute to the team. Nearly everyone was wearing some kind of Knicks memorabilia, holding signs and chanting: “Go New York, Go New York, Go,” or “Knicks in Five,” a reference to the number of games it took the team to dispatch the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals.
