Nightcap Hour 2: Knicks PARADE to Have 10K NYPD Officers + Knicks 4th Best Odds to Win 2027 FINALS + Max Kellerman says Thunder Beat Knicks if Brunson and SGA SWAP + Shannon on Being a LITTLE Brother

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
The next victory parade in Manhattan on Thursday were reportedly safeguarded by 10,000 members of the NYPD, the largest number of police officers ever assigned to a planned event, the department said, Wednesday. The contingent will include heavy weapons teams, explosive detection, canine transport, highway aviation, drones and more, according to the police. The parade will kick off at 10 a.m. near the park at New York's financial district, and the route will continue along Broadway until it reaches City Hall, where Mayor Zohar Mandami will present the next keys to the city. The route, known as the Canyon of Heroes for his history and settling of a ticker tape parade. Thursday ticker tape parade for the new NBA champions will be a first. The team won its title before 1970 and 1973 It was honored with New York's Dignity Procession.
It was, oh yeah, they had no parades back then. I don't know when the parades, when the Victory Parade started, guys. I don't know when it started, but it damn sure wasn't going on in the 70s.

**Chad Johnson** (1:05)
Yeah. Hey, that city going to be lit, boy. Lit, boy.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:10)
Ooh. Hey, hey, but it don't surprise me that they got all this security, neither. You got to, because somebody is going to go and caboo. You already know it. You already know it. It's somebody who's going to be feeling froggy and they going to jump. You already know it.

**Chad Johnson** (1:24)
Oh yeah, and they act the way they did after games, after winning games, sometime eating the game that they lost and they was acting up. Imagine the parade.
We champions. What if in a show day, you know what?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:37)
Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Teddy, you want to go to the parade?
Teddy better hang out.

**Chad Johnson** (1:45)
Hey, why Teddy ain't sleep? What's 11 o'clock?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:49)
He said, I don't go to bed at like 8.15.
Yeah, it's eight o'clock. Well, okay. He said, and plus, dad was eating some popcorn, so I came and got me a little bit. Hey, you ain't got Teddy no girlfriend enough, man. No, Teddy said, I'm fixed. Teddy said, I don't do no child support. All the money go to the man.

**Chad Johnson** (2:08)
You done got him fixed.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:10)
You done cut the man, man.

**Chad Johnson** (2:12)
You ain't even let him experience it?

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:15)
Damn, man. And then you can't let them go to the park if they're not fixed.
Hey, they can't go to the vet. They can't go to the park. They can't do nothing.
Titus ain't fixed, but I take Titus to go to the vet. Oh, do we? But a lot of times I have him come to the house. Yeah. I need to be around because he a handful. Yeah, he is. He a handful when you don't see daddy. Yeah. Hey, that's how mine is. I get the, they on wheels. They come over here, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta have that. When you got them big masters, them big dogs, who you know, if you drop them off, they gonna ask for food. Boy, please. And people don't wheel, you know. Hey, Mr. Sharpe, I just left. What you calling me for? I, damn, you done already? Yeah, you got us hemmed up in here. Yeah, but that thing gonna be crazy.
And it couldn't happen to, you know, like I said, I don't really know any of the Knicks players. You know, I follow, but it's hard not to root for Jalen Brunson. It's really hard not to root for him. It is, it is. And not only Jalen Brunson, but when you look at Kat, who's from the area, when you look at, when you look at Bridges, when you, you know, those Josh Hart guys who've been fighting with Brunson since college, you won a college championship and now you get to win on the NBA. Man, I just love the chemistry and the continuity that they have as a unit. They look great together. They look like they have fun. I enjoy watching their podcast, bro. So kudos to the Knicks, man. This was great for basketball. Especially Kat, cause he caught a lot of criticism. Oh man. He proved that he can play, he can be a major contributor. Maybe he didn't need to be the central figure. Cause now they try to diminish you if you're not the central figure. So if I'm in a movie and I ain't got the lead role, so I guess that doesn't make me a good actor. If I'm not Denzel, if I'm not Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise, what? So if I'm not Mary Frieda or Viola Davis, I'm not any good? Come on now. It takes all that everybody can't be the lead.