Photo Highlights: New York Liberty WNBA Champs Celebrated with Parade Up Canyon of Heroes, Key to City

*2024 WNBA Champions New York Liberty receive the key to the city at City Hall, after a parade up the Canyon of Heroes © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com*

By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com, [email protected]

The New York Liberty WNBA Champs danced their way up Broadway, clearly enjoying the outpouring of love and appreciation from the thousands of fans who lined the Canyon of Heroes to celebrate the team’s first WNBA Championship in their 28 years, and the first New York basketball team to win the championship for New York in 48 years.

They brought the same energy and emotion in greeting their fans (and thousands of fans who lined the route cheering them) that they brought to the game, taking a hard-fought five-game series in overtime. There was mutual love and appreciation, as some of the players hopped off the floats to greet fans personally.

Here are photo highlights from the parade up Broadway along the Canyon of Heroes and the ceremony at City Hall where they received the key to the city from Mayor Eric Adams.

Ecstatic fans who attended New York Liberty games at the Barclay Center in record numbers this season cheer the New York Liberty’s first WNBA Championship in its 28-year history © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.comHall

*2024 WNBA Champion New York Liberty Head Coach Sandy Brondello © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.coml*

*Jonathan Kolb, New York Liberty’s General Manager, is credited with making the enhancements to the team that brought them to the WNBA Championship© Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com*Hall

*2024 WNBA Champions New York Liberty parade up the Canyon of Heroes © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com*

Parade float with the New York Liberty’s chant emblazoned, “We all we got. We all we need,” that helped energize the team to their first-ever WNBA Championship in their 28-year history © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

*New York Liberty dancing their way up Broadway © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com*

Governor Kathy Hochul rides a float. “Welcome to the sweet land of liberty – home of 20 million incredibly proud New Yorkers,” she said at the City Hall ceremony © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

*New York City Mayor Eric Adams aboard a float © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com*

New York Liberty MVP Jonquel Jones scored 17 points in championship-winning game. One of the original eight franchises in the league when it was founded in 1997, The Liberty made the WNBA Finals five times before, losing each one, including last season, before this “history made” victory © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

New York Liberty owners Clara Wu Tsai and Joe Tsai bought the team in 2019, one of the original eight WNBA franchises in 1997, investing in management, players, and bringing the team to the Barclay Center where it has been hosting record attendance © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

*WNBA Champions New York Liberty get key to the city at City Hall © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com*

Courtney Vandersloot: “Winning a championship is hard. It’s all about sacrifice – whatever it took to win. I am so honored to win – it is hard, but worth it.” © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

Breanna Stewart, Forward, a mom and the only native New Yorker on the New York Liberty, was celebrated for her steals, blocks, rebounds that got the team over hump. “And what about my free throws,” she joked, “and when it counted.”

*WNBA Champions New York Liberty get key to the city © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com*

*New York Liberty mascot, Ellie the Elephant © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com*

*New York Liberty mascot, Ellie the Elephant, with team owners Clara Wu Tsai and Joe Tsai © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com*

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