Live from the Brooklyn Puerto Rican Day Parade with Jose Alvarado & Zohran Mamdani the Day after the Knicks Won the Finals

“Blessed. I’m here, man. I just want to celebrate with my people. It’s exciting to be a part of this journey,” said Jose Alvarado—shirtless on a float that was about to be towed by a pickup truck down Knickerbocker Avenue—the afternoon after the New York Knicks brought home an NBA Finals Championship. Alvarado, aka GTA, is a Nuyorican and the only native New Yorker on the Knicks. He grew up in…