New York Knicks guard Jose Alvarado has taken his NBA championship celebrations to a new extreme, filmed throwing stacks of cash at Starlets, a gentlemen’s club in Queens, as the team’s title celebrations continue to sweep across the city days after their historic victory.
The late-night appearance comes as Alvarado continues to honour a promise he made before the postseason began. “If we win, I’m going to be drunk for eight days,” the Brooklyn native said during a podcast appearance before the Knicks’ run to the title. “I’m having a party in like every state.” Footage circulating on social media shows Alvarado standing near the stage at the venue, wearing a heavy chain and tossing dollar bills into the air as dozens of onlookers filmed the scene.
Just hours before the club appearance, Alvarado had shared a photograph of himself appearing completely passed out face-down on a folding table, captioned simply “Day 7,” leading many fans to assume he was ready to call time on the celebrations. Instead, he found renewed energy to continue the party alongside local revellers at the Queens club, in what appears to be one of the final stops on his self-declared eight-day marathon.
Alvarado has emerged as the most visible figure among the championship roster throughout New York’s extended postseason celebrations, which followed the Knicks finally ending a 53-year wait for an NBA title. The team held an open-top bus parade through Manhattan on Thursday, joined by owner James Dolan, players’ wives and girlfriends, celebrities, and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with millions of fans turning out dressed in blue and orange along the route, known as the Canyon of Heroes.
The celebrations were not without controversy. Trash cans along the parade route had been specially repainted in orange and blue to mark the occasion, but in a separate viral video, one fan, wearing a blue Knicks t-shirt and orange fisherman beanie, was filmed picking up one of the repainted bins and emptying it directly onto the pavement, scattering rubbish and spilled drinks across the street in front of horrified onlookers. The footage drew sharp criticism online, with social media users accusing the woman of showing a “lack of respect” for the city during the historic celebrations.
