Mayor's Office hangs Ewing's retired number for Knicks player who barely saw court at NBA Finals parade

The 53-year hold is implicit for New York Knicks fans, arsenic Lower Manhattan streets person been filled since sunrise.

The Knicks' title parade volition reason astatine City Hall, wherever fans volition beryllium met with a glaring mistake.

The gathering is filled with banners akin to the ones that bent from the Madison Square Garden rafters for retired numbers, including 1 for each player.

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Patrick Ewing's fig has been retired by the New York Knicks since 2003, but Dillon Jones' rafter astatine City Hall is dawned with the famed 33. (Stephen Dunn, David Liam Kyle/Getty Images)

The starting 5 of Jalen Brunson, OG Anunoby, Karl-Anthony Towns, Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart bent successful the main view, with different relation players connected the sides.

One banner was fixed to Dillon Jones, who played conscionable 39 minutes for the squad this play and did not measurement connected the tribunal successful the playoffs.

Dillon Jones of the New York Knicks celebrates aft winning the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs during Game Five astatine Frost Bank Center successful San Antonio, Texas, connected June 13, 2026. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)

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However, contempt his constricted clip connected the floor, Jones, who wore No. 1 with the Knicks, was someway fixed the grant of having his sanction supra No. 33 connected his banner.

ESPN lists Jones arsenic wearing No. 33, but the number, of course, has been retired since 2003 for Patrick Ewing.

With the Oklahoma City Thunder past year, helium wore No. 3, and according to @NBA_NewYork connected X, Jones lone wore No. 33 during the 2024 Summer League and successful preseason with the Washington Wizards.

But apparently, two-time NBA champions get treated a spot otherwise successful New York.

New York Knicks prima Patrick Ewing points during a crippled against the Indiana Pacers astatine Madison Square Garden connected May 21, 1995. (Manny Millan/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

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The parade volition tally down the Canyon of Heroes for the archetypal title parade for New York successful the 4 large leagues since 2012 aft the NFL's New York Giants won Super Bowl XLVI.

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