Knicks hosting three NYC watch parties on Saturday as team looks to clinch NBA championship: All you need to know

The party is back on.The Knicks will host three watch parties for fans on Saturday as the team looks to secure the NBA championship in San Antonio.Knicks fans will be able to get $10 tickets for the watch party at Radio City Music Hall, can procure free tickets for the party in Plaza33 outside the Mecca, or skate over to Wollman Rink in Central Park for another free, but ticketed, event.Fans have until 10 a.m.EST on Saturday to reserve their tickets for any of the three events.Knicks alumni are expected to at the events.The Plaza33 watch party permit Saturday has a maximum of 3,000 attendees, which is about two thousand more fans than were approved for the ultimately scrapped Game 4 watch party, which was canceled after the city refused to issue a permit.Knicks owner James Dolan blamed Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch for failing to accommodate the masses in an interview on sports radio WFAN on Wednesday.“They have never managed anything like this before and it’s like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches coming out the sides,” he said.Dolan further claimed that Mayor Mamdani was “not a Knicks fan.”MSG has complained that the limited capacity of the watch parties ices out ten of thousands of fans from celebrating the possible championship.Previous watch parties did not require tickets or security screenings.  ...