The New York Knicks may have won the NBA Championships, but Judge Adam Levy said the celebrations went too far when the city descended into chaos and violence.Some Knicks fans in New York City responded to their team’s win by lighting school buses on fire, climbing scaffolding, light poles and statues, and getting violent.Witnesses reported gunshots in Times Square that the NYPD told Fox News Digital left a 17-year-old wounded.The New York Police Department also had their hands full a few nights before, when the Knicks pulled off the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history.
They arrested several people on charges stemming from a watch party gone wild in Bryant Park.Levy, the son of Judge Judith Sheindlin who will soon be starring in the new show "Adam’s Law," said enough is enough, noting that the law-abiding citizens were the ones most impacted by Saturday's onslaught.TEEN SHOT IN TIMES SQUARE AS KNICKS CHAMPIONSHIP CELEBRATIONS TURN CHAOTICNYPD officers tell fans to leave after the New York Knicks won Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs outside Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 4, 2026.(Adam Gray/Getty Images)"Well, I would focus on the thousands of fans who celebrated peacefully," Levy told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
"So the vast majority of people who went to watch the game in New York City when the Knicks won were peaceful.They celebrated.
And that's the way it's supposed to be.They took pictures, they hugged strangers, and they went home.
They were raised to understand the difference between celebration and destruction.The minority, a very small number of individuals, are the ones that the NYPD and prosecutors should be focusing on."Sixty-three individuals were arrested in Saturday’s postgame disorder.
Levy hoped they'll face swift justice."And out of that 63, the prosecutors should be focusing on the repeat offenders to dedicate their resources against," he said."There should be nobody at this point - none of the 6...