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World Cup? Not today: New York is celebrating the Knicks

World Cup? Not today: New York is celebrating the Knicks
France 24 Friday 19 June 2026, 03:02 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. World Cup? Not today: New York is celebrating the Knicks Sport Issued on: Share The FIFA World Cup may be under way in the United States, but in New York on Thursday, all eyes were on basketball. Tens of thousands of fans packed the streets of Manhattan to celebrate the NBA champion Knicks as the team paraded through the city under tight security. FRANCE 24’s Juliette Montilly was there. [Image text:] WORLDOOF EVISION TRE VSNBA 11 New York chooses the Knicks
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