Mamdani, Dolan would have to bury hatchet for potential massive Knicks ticker-tape parade if they win NBA Finals

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Knicks owner James Dolan could be forced to bury the hatchet if the team clinches an NBA championship — for potentially the biggest ticker-tape victory parade in New York City’s history.The Knicks’ instant-classic Game 4 victory Wednesday over the San Antonio Spurs puts the team one win away their first NBA championship in 53 years – and amped up talks about a befitting mega-celebration, insiders said.Jinxes be damned, officials were said to have met in City Hall on Thursday afternoon to hash out the logistics of a throwing a ticker-tape parade as soon as next week if the Knicks best the Spurs during Game 5 in San Antonio on Saturday, according to sources. “Nobody is going to not have a parade,” a former City Hall staffer said, before adding, “There could definitely be drama in the details.”Major building managers along the Canyon of Heroes have held preliminary conversations with City Hall about a parade, according to sources.Such a mega-celebration could awkwardly force Dolan and Mamdani together, as team owners and mayors traditionally stand on the same float or dais, sources said.The two “will just have to suck it up and stand on the dais in City Hall for a couple minutes and give phony smiles,” a source said, adding, “but somehow it will work.”Dolan and Garden officials have battled with the city all week over the airtight security zone stretching several blocks around the arena set up during the Game 3 attended by President Trump.The drama hit a boiling point in the hours before Game 4, when Dolan deemed Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch “party poopers” for approving an outdoor watch party outside MSG that’d only have 1,000 tickets available and come with tight NYPD security.Dolan then took to WFAN radio to announce he canceled the watch party, pinning blame on Mamdani.“He’s not a Knick fan,” he said about Mamdani, a professed avid acolyte of the team.Mamdani and City Hall officials didn�...