The ticker tape was still drifting down on Sixth Avenue when New York made its second move of the day. The Knicks had their parade — confetti, open-top buses, the full Manhattan production — and then, as the borough started to exhale, the real party began somewhere considerably more private.
The team celebrated their championship Thursday evening at a members-only club, according to Page Six, and the guest list read like a particularly well-curated premiere-night attendance sheet. Timothée Chalamet was there. So were Mariska Hargitay, Ben Stiller, and Spike Lee — the last of whom has logged more courtside hours at Madison Square Garden than most of the coaching staff across the franchise's history.
The celebrity presence had started well before the velvet rope. All four were spotted at the parade itself, joining the kind of crowd that turns a sports procession into a full New York cultural event — the sort of afternoon that gets referenced in conversation for the next decade whenever someone asks where you were when.
For the Knicks, it is the city's first NBA championship in over fifty years, and the fanbase has not exactly been understated about it. The after-party reportedly ran into the evening, with players and guests making the most of a night that, by any reasonable measure, had been a long time coming. The club's name has not been confirmed publicly. The guest list, apparently, keeps growing.