Jose Alvarado helped end the Knicks’ 53-year title drought. The Los Sures kid brought it home to Toñita’s.
Knicks guard Jose Alvarado, who grew up in Los Sures, brought the NBA championship trophy to Toñita's Caribbean Social Club in Williamsburg on June 18.
Jose Alvarado helped end the Knicks’ 53-year title drought. The Los Sures kid brought it home to Toñita’s.
Knicks guard Jose Alvarado, who grew up in Los Sures, brought the NBA championship trophy to Toñita's Caribbean Social Club in Williamsburg on June 18.
Jose Alvarado, the New York Knicks guard who grew up in Los Sures, brought the team’s NBA championship trophy home to Williamsburg on June 18, carrying it up Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick’s Puerto Rican Day Parade and then to Toñita’s, the Puerto Rican social club on Grand Street. Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Representative Nydia Velazquez met him there.
Photo: Josh Shub-Seltzer
Alvarado is the third Puerto Rican to win an NBA title, after Butch Lee in 1980 and J.J. Barea in 2011. The Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs to win the 2026 Finals, ending a 53-year championship drought. Traded to New York in February, Alvarado hit fourth-quarter threes in Game 4 as the Knicks erased a 29-point deficit, the largest comeback in Finals history, and closed out the title in Game 5. He is known as “Grand Theft Alvarado” for his knack for stealing the ball.
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