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\n\tMissed a golden glimpse of the first Knicks\u2019 championship trophy in 53 years, as it made its victory lap through Manhattan? Never fear, New York: Get yourself to the American Museum of Natural History starting Monday, where the Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy will be on display through January 3.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs on June 13, crowning a spectacular comeback season and ending a two generation-spanning dignity drought for New York City. And so commenced a literally explosive weekend of celebrations across the five boroughs, which culminated in a ticker-tape parade on June 18 to City Hall. Roughly 2 million fans attended, leaving thousands more on the wrong side of the police barricades along Broadway \u2014 close but frustratingly far from the team.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Knicks\u2019 historic win has \u201cbrought the city together in really exciting ways,\u201d AMNH President Sean M. Decatur told the Gothamist<\/em> Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s wonderful as a civic institution and an iconic part of the city\u2019s museum landscape to be a part of that.\u201d The Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy is named after the NBA commissioner who served from 1975 to 1984, and was one of the country\u2019s top Democratic strategists for more than two decades. It weighs 30 pounds, is made of sterling silver and gold vermeil, and depicts a life-sized basketball shooting through a hoop. The names of every winning team since 1947 are inscribed on its base.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy will be showcased alongside other sports paraphernalia, including the NFL\u2019s Vince Lombardi Trophy and one of Jesse Owens\u2019s gold medals from the 1936 Olympics, as part of the museum\u2019s \u201cFor the Win\u201d exhibition, which explores the significance of precious metals and gems in human achievement.<\/p>\n \n\tDecatur said the exhibition\u2019s curators had always intended to showcase the Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy and had even contacted the NBA two years ago, during the show\u2019s conception, about acquiring it temporarily. What the museum surely didn\u2019t expect was for the trophy to arrive freshly imbued with New York history.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing coming together of a long-planned exhibit with this very special moment in New York history,\u201d Decatur said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/knicks-championship-trophy-american-museum-natural-history-1234793263\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2282229707.jpg?w=1024″] Missed a golden glimpse of the first Knicks\u2019 championship trophy in 53 years, as it made its victory lap through Manhattan? Never fear, New York: Get yourself to the American Museum of Natural History starting Monday, where the Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy will be on display through January 3. The Knicks beat the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2058897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2058897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2058897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2058897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2058897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}