New York Liberty basketball team honored with ticker-tape parade in Canyon of Heroes

Jonquel Jones, Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and their New York teammates were showered pinch confetti arsenic nan Liberty celebrated winning nan WNBA title successful nan Canyon of Heroes successful downtown Manhattan

NEW YORK -- Jonquel Jones, Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and their New York teammates were showered pinch confetti arsenic nan Liberty celebrated winning nan WNBA title successful nan Canyon of Heroes successful downtown Manhattan.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams joined nan thousands who lined nan streets connected Thursday.

The Liberty won nan franchise's first championship, defeating nan Minnesota Lynx successful overtime successful a decisive Game 5 of nan WNBA Finals connected Sunday astatine nan Barclays Center successful Brooklyn.

“(To) spot really galore group were successful nan crowd, smiling, celebrating nan Liberty," Ionescu said. "It really puts into position what it intends to bring a title to this metropolis and really it really takes everyone.”

Veteran Liberty players from nan early teams, including Teresa Weatherspoon, Vickie Johnson, Kym Hampton and Crystal Robinson, on pinch existent coach Sandy Brondello. attended nan parade and ceremonial afterward astatine City Hall.

The parade way was afloat of fans of each ages, pinch galore of nan kids wearing jerseys of their favourite players. Jones carried her Finals MVP trophy atop her float, while Stewart and Ionescu went into nan crowd, giving high-fives and taking selfies pinch fans.

“This is awesome. I’ve been a Liberty instrumentality since they first started playing” said Sarah Davis of nan WNBA’s debut successful 1997. “It’s truthful cool that we won and we could observe pinch a parade.”

There person been complete 200 ticker-tape and confetti parades successful New York. The astir caller to grant a women's sports squad came successful 2019 erstwhile nan U.S. shot squad won nan World Cup. Two years later, location was a parade to grant basal workers and first responders for their work during nan coronavirus pandemic.

“On behalf of 20 cardinal incredibly proud New Yorkers, I opportunity invited location to our champion women,” said Hochul, who thanked Liberty owners Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai for investing successful nan team. “Let’s do it again adjacent year.”

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