June 4, 2026 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon celebrate the greatness of the New York Knicks coming back down by 14 against the San Antonio Spurs to win game one in the NBA Finals! Plus, the great Ric Bucher joins us after the game to listen to Jason gloat about his glorious Knicks!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Jalen Brunson and the Knicks are pulling away from the
Spurs in Game one of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Tip loose by Heart. It's Brunting on the attack, left
hand layup, got two more. Jalen Brunson's take it over
the fourth quarter of Game one.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Mitch Johnson needs time out.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You heard it all on the Knicks Radio network. They
were tied going into the fourth quarter against the Spurs,
but New York right now is up ninety four to
eighty nine with four minutes to go in the game.
Jalen Brunson struggled in the first half, but he is
the leading scorer of the game. He's got twenty five points.
He is one of eight from beyond the arc. Though
Carl Anthony Towns with a double double, eighteen points and
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twelve rebounds. When it comes to the Spurs, Victor Winn Banyama,
He's got twenty one points to lead the Spurs, but
he is five of eighteen from the field, two of
eight from beyond the arc. He does have ten rebounds.
In baseball, the aser up on the Cubs five to four,
top of the tenth inning in Chicago, Dodgers blanking the
Diamondbacks five zero, bottom of the fourth A Monsio Lanios.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith Show
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half to go in the fourth quarter, and it looks
like Wenby's going to the free throw line to cut
this to one. Driving on Karl Anthony Towns. He draws
the foul with a big push. Ooh, man, I don't know, Man,
I don't know. You didn't get a grab by Karl
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Anthony Towns. Maybe it's gonna get challenged.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But this last couple of minutes, the Spurs looked like
they were on vapors. They looked exhausted. Wenby shot to
hitting the top of the backboard. The Spurs really did
not look like they had anything going on. The Knicks
had a six point lead, but Jalen Brunson misses another
bad miss, Champennie goes to the free throw line for
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a couple and now Wenby going for a free throw
to make it a one point game with three and
a half left to go in the fourth quarter. I
felt like the Knicks really had a chance there to
finish the Spurs. They had a really wobbly couple of
minutes and there when it looked like they were spent
because they're exhausted. And this is the time when I thought,
this is what the Knicks need to do. You get
to the fourth quarter at the end when it's close,
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execute like you've done all season long. Because the Spurs
are going to be exhausted. Well, they have it exactly
where they want it right now, one point game with
three minutes left to go, and the Spurs look exhausted
and they need to make shots. Jalen Brunson was on
a heater. He had eight points in a row. Now
he's missed his last three and now the Spurs can
actually take the lead with a bucket coming down floor.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
And that was another one of those shots.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He got his space, got his look square up just
inside the free throw line and missed it. But we
finally saw a little bit of the aggression from Wehm
Binyama we and multiple possessions for the Spurs where he
was getting bodied and where normally you'd expect a file call,
no foul call. Frustrated, then had that weird looking three
point shot that hit the top of the backboard. If
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that would have banked in, that would have made Duncan
and Robinson proud.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah, I can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But then he had that frustration drive on cat like
you said, got some extra body into him, did get
the fall call, went to the line, and here we
said at one point game, coming up on two minutes,
Wemby going to the free throw line again. Apparently Wemby's
just gonna go every other time down the floor. So
a little over two minutes left to go, Wemby at
the line could give the Spurs the lead. Right now again,
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ninety four to ninety three lead for the Knicks with
two and a half to go in the fourth quarter. Now, meanwhile,
what we just saw a couple moments ago was absolutely insane,
and we have a little more details on it now,
and boy, the picture going around is crazy. It was
a little bit less than ten minutes ago in real time,
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a fan ran on the court in the middle of
play and stopped at the right about at the free
throw line and wanted to take a selfie of himself.
This guy runs on the floor, he's laughing, he's got
his camera. Now, I don't know if there's gonna be video,
because I'll tell you what when it goes put online,
this is gonna be one hell of a selfie. He
runs to the free throw line and it's like he's
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trying to take a selfie of himself with Wemby behind him.
Security runs out, one guy comes from behind, one guy
comes from under the asket, grabs him and pulls him off.
But the Frostburg just sent me a screen grab of
the guy taking the selfie, and it looks like Wemby
is smiling. But no, I don't know if he's smiling
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because here's a guy that's come on the floor to
take a selfie, or if he's going, oh, i'll give
you you, you give your guts, you ran him here.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I'll smile for the cell phone.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Because soccer matches, right, because we've seen plenty of stars
and soccer matches. They look around confused, how did someone
get all the way to the middle of the pitch.
But it's like, all right, appreciation for the effort, here's
your here's your selfie.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Moving on.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
But yeah, very odd circumstance.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And if one of those guys had terry taated his
ass and run him into the court, I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Have blamed him office linebacker.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He earned absolutely getting trucked and obliterated by somebody. I mean,
that's such a foolhardy and jackassery move. But here's the
thing that's gonna go so viral, Like, what's the what's
the most viewed selfie of all time?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The Ellen cell fee from the oscars a few years
ago when she took it and went viral like the
most view things like that's gonna be the most viewed thing.
You know, that was the most she ever seemed human
and likable.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Ah, that was before everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You're not hosting the oscars if people think they still
hate you in public.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But that in reality said it, that was before that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I mean, you're not going back and getting rid of
the clicks that were there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
So I mean, no, that's good. But yeah, all that
to say, it's he'll get.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
His run and someone will know his name. I'm gonna
do my best to just never see his stupid ass again.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Uh, he can beat it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I mean really, I wonder if he took video where
was trying to take a hopefully it's video, because I
mean it really it looks like Wemby's finally.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Uh meanwhile, GMG, just bought the footage. No, just kidding.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
A reversal of fortune in San Antonio. After Wemby free
throws have given the Spurs a one point lead, Jalen
Brunson hits a three from the corner for a two
point lead for the Knicks. They're able to halt them
defensively and now mcal bridges at the free throw line
for two he has made them both. It is a
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ninety nine to ninety five lead for the Knicks with
about a minute left to go in regulation. This is
a game that started out. Each team had runs, the
Knicks reeled them in. It's been great back and forth.
It's been incredible theater. And this is just game one.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
It's just yet.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We still got a minute left to go. But it
has been some kind of fun up and down play.
It's exactly what the NBA wants. You have the Knicks
playing to their level. You have Wemby who has been
playing terrific and trying to take over in the last
couple of minutes. And so this is the NBA is
gonna say, Okay, we got what we want right now. No
one's talking about tanking now. He turned into the Hulk
a little too late, at least at this point, tweeted
(07:48):
the night Elmo hopes both teams have fun or basketballs.
A guy named Evan responded with you live in New
York City, you like it, trader?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
So he had that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Brunson Wow, Okay, sorry, here's what just happened. Cheering in
the press box Wemby turns it over badly in the
front court by the Spurs. He was I don't know
if he was gonna look like he was gonna try
to dribble back and take a three, but Wemby turns
it over. The Knicks go down and Jalen Brunson hits
a shot to make it a one oh one ninety
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five lead. They also have the basketball as Wemby has
missed a three, so it's a six point Nick lead
with twenty nine seconds left go. Justin we were saying
great things about wem Baby. That was a bad turnover.
It was it was an unforced error. He just like
looks like he lost control, looks like he was trying
to pull his dribble back and the ball gets knocked out.
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Josh Hart picks it up, the Knicks get in for
a hoop by Jalen Brunson and now Ogian Unobi at
the free throw line. He has made the first of two.
A seven point lead now for the Knicks with thirty
seconds left to go, fans starting to celebrate. Adam Silver
is still excited because well, we got both superstars, got
hurt and stayed in the game.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Not quite the Willis Reid moment.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But Jalen Brunson, remember all that time ago, if we
hit the rewind, left the game, knee hobbled, went to
the locker room, sat on the bench for the first
four plus minutes of the second quarter, and then he's
put them on his back here in the fourth quarter,
as we've seen so many times during the regular season
and into these playoffs. Twenty seconds left to go. It's
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a one oh three ninety five lead for the Knicks.
Ball out of bounds to the Spurs again. Twenty seconds
left and the Knicks are that much away from a
one game to none lead in the NBA Finals. Nick
Fans who made the tripper going nuts. Tracy Morgan is
going crazy. Uh, look gonna be another bad day for
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the Jalen Brunson's too small, not good enough to lead
a team to a championship. That hoop he just scored.
Trying to draw the foul, and I don't know why
he's trying to draw the foul. They're not going to
put him at the free throw line and not putting
anybody else in the line besides Wemby still is able
to hit that tough jumper that ten to fifteen foot jumper,
that he has become the best guy in the league
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at hitting. You know KD had that for a few years.
The mid range jumper was his the lost art was
always fun to see. No one hits that jumper like
Jalen Brunson. Despite a bad night shooting, he now has
thirty points and the Knicks are twenty seconds away from
a one game to none lead.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Mike Harmon, the Knicks are twenty seconds away.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Game one, long series to come, but a huge effort
here fourth quarter Brunson again the scare of the knee,
but odd running ragged right, He's finding open spots. And
even when he had that little cold streak, wasn't that
the Spurs were able to really come back and surmount
much of an effort. The Aaron Fox has had another
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invisible game. Calden Johnson struggled as he did much of
the last series, and when Ben Yama you called for
him to be the incredible Hulk a couple of weeks ago.
He showed up at in different spots during that thunder
series here passive, frustrated.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Good job by Cat, good job by Mitchell Robinson, bodying.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Him up left and right, here was as we're watching
a review and I think a challenge on the play.
Aaron Fox had an open lane on bridges for a layup,
decided to throw it to the corner and your guy
Landry Shammitt.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Yeah, it's under review.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It looked like it was off of Shammitt when that's
why I said ball at a bounce of the spurs.
But replay looks like it might have gone off Champenny's hand.
So now they're looking at it. Right now the play
is under reviewed. This would now be Nix ball with
twenty seconds to go in an eight point lead, so
they're looking at it. The angle they just showed really
made it look like it was off the spurs. But again,
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you know, hey, who knows.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Simultanoter is officiating this game.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
You never know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It might have an extra angle, I don't know know,
But Champagny for that to that point, he's five of
ten from the field, five to nine from three, he's
got one point in the second half. Yeah, right, he's
been absolutely invisible. The Knicks give them credit, only eight
turnovers in the game. They've done a great job of
keeping control, keeping their composure and even with some of
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those bad shot selection, you know you're you're getting good
work on the glass. And again Karl Anthony Towns for
all all, Brunson's fourth quarter was amazing, but Karl Anthony
Towns is the tale of the tape. He has a
best way both offensively and defensively. This you could say
it's the Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
But that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
The defensive mets amazing aren't gonna show in the in
the box score. That's the thing, right, You're gonna look
at Wemby's Wemby's shooting percentage and just say, wow, he
had an off night. He took a nine to three pointers.
He's six of twenty one, twelve to thirteen from the
foul line. But what Karl Anthony Towns did as a
as a primary defenser and just being an agitator, And
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that's the thing we've seen with Wemby at times, just
like Jokic earlier in that series again Minnesota, there's just
a point where he gets a little out of himself.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But the funny thing is, you talk, Okay, Wenby's not
shot well, Brun's had shot well.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
You know who's shot well in this game?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Nobody, No, it's any really video.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
The Knicks are at forty percent and the Spurs are
at thirty six percent. Outside of Champagne, who hit all
his shots in the first half, he is scoreless or
he has one point in the second half. He was
five of six from the floor in the first half,
oh for four in the second half.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Nobody has shot well that.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
This has been a one of those typical finals games
where Okay, you have a layoff for the Knicks for
a little while, you have the Spurs trying to come
back emotionally to try to uh you know, try to
get game one, and it's become a bit of a fight,
and it's been a slog fest and it looks like
the Knicks are going to come through here. The ball
on review was viewed to be off of the Spurs.
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So the Knicks are going to the free throw line
up by eight with twenty seconds left to go and
a couple of free throws. That's gonna salt this thing
away from New York. Look, get you, I'm kidching, Oh
you how excited I am?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Scream? I want to scream.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I'm sorry, just just let it out.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Back away from the microphone, so you don't blow my
ears so excited because whenever I plug in here, right,
we all need to have annual hearing tests added to
our are our things. But yeah, to your point, these
shooting percentages are awful. You look at the Spurs for
the game, sixteen assists on their thirty two makes against
twelve turnovers, whereby you've got the Knicks twenty assists against
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eight turnovers, eight steals on the game. So one oh
five ninety five is the Knicks lead after two free
throws by Og and Unobi, and the Knicks are gonna
dribble this one out.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Go for the dog, get the over, go New York, Go,
New York coat. Oh yeah, give it to me. Five
second dance party, the Knicks run Nicks in four. The
Knicks win it by double digits, one oh five ninety five.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Something is happening on the floor right now. Jalen Brunson
had word with somebody. I looked at the scorers table,
hard to tell who it was, but he had to
be moved away from the scorer's table. Go back and
look and see that again. They haven't shown a replay yet.
Obviously they're you know, they're cutting around different things. Interviews
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with different players. It looked like he definitely had something
to say to somebody. Don't know who it was, don't
know what, but a little chippy way to end game
one of the NBA Finals. Yeah, you got an idiot
running on the quarter earlier, he got some chippiness, a
lot of back and forth, a lot of yelling at
the officials and Scott Foster's crew over the course of
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the night trying to figure out what they were watching
in an EBB and a flow of this game. But
for Jalen Brunston, yeah, a little, little odd moment as
he goes to do the postgame interview. But fourth quarter,
Brunson front and center once again injury scare earlier, but
finishes the job. He and Kat on full display right
carrying this squad. And for those that paid the under
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seven hundred bucks which was get in earlier today, I
saw tickets at six twenty eight or something like that,
including all fees they got, they got a hell of
a game.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I mean, look, I'm shaking right now.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
No, no, you're a little twitch now, Like we're three
games away from the NBA title. I don't know if
it's sodium from the pizza that's gonna make you stroked out,
or if it's the excitement, Oh no, no, no, I
know I need this game.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
You know what I need?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I need sugar. Now, okay, we'll get it.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
We'll get you.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You need more sugar, I need more sugar. And here
and it turns out to be a ten point win.
What are the Knicks do in the playoffs? They win
by double dis seven straight road games where they've won
by at least ten points. The winner of Game one
wins the NBA title seventy percent of the time.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
You couldn't even wait eight seconds? I could they flash that.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Graphic up on the monitor, like the wait, if you
just start squealing, man, someone's handing you a lollypop.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Exite, old tyser.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Let's get call Becky Hammond and Draymond Green to get
on the show. I want to talk about how Jalen
Brunt is not good enough to win. Can we can
you call it? Don't get both you know what? Both
of them on at the same time. I like, I
have both of them on at the same time and
talk to them.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Okay, I got Raymond right now.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know what's funny is they did coming back from
a commercial they did show her uh her retired number
up in the band and the rafters the Becky Hammond manner.
I don't know what the commentary was because obviously we
don't have the sound here in the studio, but it
made for a funny moment, especially as Jalen Brutson was,
you know, putting the uh this squad on his back
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like he was carrying a piano.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yeah, so trying to put on your fan hand for
a second. We're not on that just for a second,
really big stitch up. Let's let's change the energy just
for a second. Let's say the Knicks win it all.
What is the first thing you would do?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't know I would scream. I don't I don't
know what I would do. I really don't. I have
no idea, because how often do you think I've had
time to really think that realistically the Knicks can win
the title.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I mean, come on, man, that's it.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's like saying, hey, I realistly, Jason, if you ever
met Scarlet Johansson, right, and she was single and you
were single, and like, what would be your move? Like, oh, yeah, okay,
Like I mean, you may as well ask me that.
Of course, you give her a hat. What do you
mean she clearly likes funny people.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, that is true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That it's but I don't have quite the hairline the
Colin jos tess like he's he's got much better hair
than I do.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Under that he's bald.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, it's okay, you know, under that great head of hair,
your husband's bald scarlet About that?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
His scalpel looks just like mine. I've already photoshopped him.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
This is what he gonna look like.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
In five ye ah, we are just getting started. The
Knicks up one game to none in the NBA Finals.
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Speaker 6 (19:52):
Oh, let's hear that final.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Com the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
We're down fourteen in the third quarter. But if we
learned anything during this postseason run, it's you never count
out the New York Knicks. They've won a twelfth consecutive
playoff game, and that's stolen Game one of the NBA
Finals one oh five ninety five.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Next radio on the call, I said, Nixon five, I
may have given the Spurs too much.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Four.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Nickson four.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Joining us now on the hot line, a man who.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I thought was going to flee back to Greece, but
has graciously once again agreed to join us. After the
Knicks Game one, winning the NBA Finals. It is Fox
Sports won Insider Extraordinary Rick Buker Rick one win down,
three to go for the Knicks, just like I've been
telling you all year.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Rick, yep.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Can't get here fast enough.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
You're you're telling me, Rick, come.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
On now, I know I'm gonna be tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'm actually off tomorrow, which is kind of funny. Look,
it's like we said last night, here's gonna be. Here's
how Game one is going to go. The Knicks are
going to stay close, the Spurs are going to be
exhausted in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks are going
to take over, which is what they've done all season long.
And that's exactly what happened. You could see, I mean,
Wemby's jumpers are hitting the top of the backboard. You
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could see that they just all of a sudden that
guess Tank got to e and the Knicks were able
to pull away in another double digit win for the Knicks.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Yeah, I thought it was certainly they out executed. The
Knicks did executed the Spurs down the stretch, turnovers by
the Aaron Fox by Wemby partly in fatigue, for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I also think just sort.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Of inexperience in the moment they played, and it's been
an issue with them even in the Oklahoma City series,
where they just play too.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Fast at times.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
And I've said it, I said it throughout the Thunder series,
like when you get to this stage of the playoffs,
it's not always about just making the electric play. Sometimes
it's just about not beating yourself and giving yourself a chance.
And ultimately, you know, if you saw the Knicks down
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the stretch, it wasn't like they were making every shot,
but they were getting a shot every time. And when
you get a shot, at least you have the opportunity
to get back and defend. And ultimately that made the
difference in terms of the execution and so and then
you know, let's face it, you got Jalen Brunson, proven closer.
(22:34):
Who is the closer for the San Antonio Spurs. My
money would be on Dylan Harper, but you're talking about
a rookie and or Victor winban Yama, a big man
who you it's a little bit of a struggle to
get him the ball in places that he can be effective.
So certainly there's there's certain things that the Knicks have
(22:57):
an edge in and they came to for in this
particular game. I think we're going to have a great series.
I'm still not I went into it thinking the Spurs
were going to win, but that the Knicks had a chance,
and a bigger chance than most people were giving them.
I'm going to stick with that for now. I need
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to see I need to see another game, simply because
san Antonio has been so good at making adjustments and
learning from their mistakes in short order, and they've got
a few mistakes that they need to learn from.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
One of the things we pride ourselves on the show
is being ahead of the curve and being first to
say it. So let me start throwing flowers in the
general defensive effort that we got in that direction for
Karl Anthony Towns things that have never been said on
national radio before.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
No, I mean he's still kind of goofy.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Right, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
After he took the elbow or he took the shoulder
to the chest in the final minutes from Wemby and
he's laying down and there was.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Just sticulation or suggestions. I'm like, what is he.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Doing right now? But that said, you know, I think Rick, it's.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Probably the best game of his career. I mean, not
only offensively eighteen twelve and four assists, and what he
did because Wenby was what what two for eleven something
like that with with as a primary defender, like this
is the game, This is the best game of his career.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
That he's had.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Yeah, well, and I've said it all year. What my
feeling is is that that Carl has been His numbers
haven't been as as good or as as robust as
they were in Minnesota or at other times even as
a nick but but he's been more efficient and he's
been willing to play that secondary role. And Jalen said
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something afterward about how he felt that sort of their
chemistry and having each other's back was what carried them
through this game. And I really think that that's one
of the the underlying or the underrated element it's about
this team, because there was so much talk at the
beginning of the year about it being a fractured team,
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about guys struggling with their roles, about and what I've
seen down the stretch is a team that's come together
and has come to understand who and what they are
and and and what everybody the role that everybody has
to play, and the hierarchy is built. And that's what
I really loved about sort of watching these two teams
right now, is that you don't get you know, there's
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some teams, usually when they have a James Harten on them,
where there's there's a there's a battle of who's supposed
to be taking the shot and what are we supposed
to be doing in a given situation. And I think
with both of these teams, everybody's committed to the game
plan and UH and Karl Anthony Towns included, and I
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don't know how many times we've felt that way about
about Towns and that he was all in for doing
what he needed to do in order for the team
to win, as opposed to doing everything that he thought
he should be doing in order for the team to win.
There's a difference there, but there's a big one and
it's probably one of the biggest reasons why the Knicks
are in the finals.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
In up one L go ahead, Jess if you could
put a finger on, because I have my thoughts, I
kind of think it's more of a Over the course
of the last month of the regular season, defensively, the
Knicks really started to get it and you would wouldn't
look at the floor and say, boy, you can't play
Brunston and Karl Anthony Towns together anymore. So it took
him a while, but the last month they started to
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get it. When Karl Anthony Towns became more facilitator, that
really opened up the offense. It's one of those things
where it's a late breaking phenomenon, but it's still something
that happened over over a period of time where you
could see where the Knicks were with a month ago
in the regular season and then basically after Game three
against the Hawks.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Yeah, no, and and when you have you know, when
you have success, when you have positive results, that gets
everybody buying into what needs to be done. And let's
face it, the Knicks, when you look at all the
guys on the team and all they've been through, it
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reminds me a little bit of the Boston Celtics when
they brought Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen and.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Paul Pierce together.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
It's guys who've been around the league long enough to
know that your opportunities to go win a ring are
few and far between. Young guys, you know, the Anthony
Edwards in the league think, ah, you know I've got time,
I'm going to get one. And then you get guys
that have been around for a minute, like a Josh Hart,
and have been in a couple of different places, and
they realize, man, we may never get this chance again.
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And so it results in guys being willing to make
sacrifices and having a focus and putting what the team
needs first, that being defense as well as you can
play it, even if you're not a great defender, give
me the effort, don't quit on plays, do what you can,
and let's see if we're good enough. I think that's
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that's the mindset of the Knicks. It also helped that
there was probably what Mike, what would you say? I
would say probably at least five thousand Jason Smith's in
the building, oh waiting, Yeah, No, absolutely, in the stands,
there was. There was a Jason Smith influence in the
(28:22):
in the in the sands in San Antonio, no question
about it.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Hey, say what you want about Knicks fans, but we
travel everywhere. If that when the team is seventeen and
sixty five, we are still following and traveling and going,
like say, they always show up. They show up more
than the Knicks over the past couple of decades.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
But we always show up Rick.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
Now, what the question I have is, why do they
always show up and they look like they're dressed exactly
the way they would if they were taking the subwave
and they're unshaven.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I got no problem with it. Come as you are,
may and as it's part of life. But what was
interesting watching you know Jason here? I wish I had
another camera on him here in the studio from like
the side of watching his eyes get wide with each
big shot or recoil a little bit. If we put
a heart monitor on him, it might have been really
(29:12):
extra extra century.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Viewing here for us ring oh Man, next level star.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I'll tell you I I I exactly I felt. I
felt odd and weird all day and and it really hit.
It's it's uh its peak, honestly, when Wemby just turned
it over it with with a minute left to go
and they're down for and he's got and he just
it's an unforced error. He tried and Brunson hits that
incredible lean in, lean back, and I don't know why
he's leaning.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
In for contact. They weren't putting it the free throw line.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He hits that shot, it's a six point lead, and
that that was when I said, this is going this
is going our way.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Like all of a.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Sudden, I'm thinking Wemby's gonna hit a three. Wenby's gonna
get to the free throw line, and he just biffs it,
And I was it was stunning. When I saw that happen.
I said, oh my god, we're gonna win. We're gonna win.
When I saw that ball on the ground and heart
picks up that we're gonna win, We're gonna win this game.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
It probably would have been the It probably was the
exact opposite feeling of when Wemby came down and hit
that three over Mitchell Robinson.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
You're like, oh no, yeah no.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I've seen this.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
I've seen this movie before.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Yeah no.
Speaker 10 (30:16):
But I mean, I think that was an example like
I don't I don't want Wemby with the game on
the line. I don't want him trying to cross over
Mitchell Robinson at the three point line because and I
get this is what I mean about not beating yourself,
Like because if you do, if you don't get it there,
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or if he does turn the ball over and he's
a seven to five guy. I mean, you can he
dribbles low for a tall guy. The opportunity for something
to go wrong and for that to be a live
ball going the other direction is just too great. Like
you need to play more efficient, thoughtful basketball in those situations.
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And it's what I love about about Wemby at this stage.
First time he's in the finals, he's pulling up and
shooting threes, no problem with you know, in a critical
situation he's looking to cross somebody over at thirty feet.
But ultimately it's experience tells you this is not the
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shot we want. I mean, you looked at Jalen Brunson,
and he was where he was going and what he
was trying to get. He was still his same methodical
self in looking for his shots and getting to his spots,
and ultimately that made the difference.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker.
Check out the On the Ball podcast as well. Rick,
thank you for joining us. We'll talk to you after
game two on Friday night. I know you want to
press fast forward on the DVR to get to Game two,
but you'll just have to wait forty eight hours.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
I'm just disappointed that we didn't have a single word
about Landry Shamis show.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Ah the legend.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Let me let me leave you with how you like
to leave us on the show many times by just
saying to you, next show, I'm in hell, Rick, see
you buddy, have fun.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh Mike yo, Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Though, see you Friday, buddy, Always great style. Love Redhuker
again on Twitter at Rick Buker. I got his new
book wherever you get your books bound in rich Mahogany.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
The Knicks lead the NBA Finals one zip. We got
more coming up next, including what kind of day it
(32:38):
was for the Knicks. They're good karma. We can't I
can't tell you how far this good karma is spreading.
That's next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 6 (32:54):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Listen to the Knicks win, take a lead, one game
to know, but he's excited to Lindsey Buckingham's gonna come
and defeat you. Nick one oh five Spurs ninety five.
Everything coming up next so much so they're good. Karma
has extended to the Jets. I told you you can't
(33:17):
use that phrase.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
I can say that, I can say good, and I
could say that.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
You gotta have a pause.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Uh, just really quick before you get into a big
topics around this game. Uh announcing Michael Parsons will be
back in October for the Packers. Right, big NFL stories.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Mike Tom We're gonna be the coach by then, Jets.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Jets play the Packers week two. We yeah, Mika Parsons.
Everything's coming up New York Man, Aaron's coming up.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
So who's gonna make a one hundred and fifty million
dollars be in the pass rusher that runs nuts.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
It's like, look, I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Next, But but sir, like I, I called really fast,
talked to one of my good friends and we just
screamed for five minutes, just yelling, let's e F and go,
Let's e F and go. A few minutes ago it
was really he's in New York, he says, I. I
can't tell you what it's like in the city right now.
And look, if the Knicks win the title, which now
(34:06):
looks really really possible, like the odds I'm sure have
now flipped you in Game one in San Antonio, the
way the Spurs look, the way the Spurs don't have
a closer. If the Knicks win, the city is gonna
look like I Am Legend meets Escape from New York.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
That's what the streets of New York are gonna look like.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Man, it's gonna look it's desolate, with with with you know,
snake pliskin and lions showing up and what you know,
that's what it's.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
If you give someone could do that, if you could
get that, I'm sure a I could do that.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
I'm done by the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
If I am Legend meets Escape from New York, what.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
The city would like.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I mean I am Legend before it was empty, like
when everything was happening and the virus got out and everybody, yeah, yeah,
that's what I mean, when things went nuts and you know,
I mean that part of it so not him by
himself watching you know today's show reruns.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Uh, that's what the city's gonna look like. That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
And if you I think I'm wrong, Alex Tyshert just
found this video that uh Knicks fans put up. That's
a compilation of things that have been said outside the
arena following watch parties this year. Right so, because you
know the Nick obviously big watch party mass word. I
think they filled up MSG tonight. We can't play all
of it for you because boy, we really can't, but
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we could play this.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
This is this is how it ends.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
This is this is a Knicks fan and they're all
grabbing microphones yelling into this.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
This is the last Nick fan in the video.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Go ahead, if.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
We win the finals, we're part of this is ting bang.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, No, that's I wish I could say that. Oh,
that's a little bit of that. We're just being a
little figurative. No, no, no, oh, it's a I I
the city. That's what it's gonna look like. Man, that's
the city. Is all I can say is if I
was a first responder police officer, I'm they're going over
the next two weeks.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
The amount of overtime is going to pay for a
house in the Hamptons.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
Well, you know, when you need.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
To have, you need to have, you know, you know, Okay,
we got to have him on call for Game four,
Game five, Game six, Game two, in game game three
and game four are gonna be. Now, I can't even
tell you what that's gonna be. Game three title? Ready
to have some fun, all right?
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Man?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Current odds for the NBA Finals the Knicks are now
minus one thirty four. That is an implied fifty seven
percent win when seventy percent of the time the team
that wins Game one wins the NBA. No, I remember
that statue. The other is Game three? Get in early
this morning?
Speaker 6 (36:37):
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Okay, fifty three hundred dollars about all in including fees?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
What do you think it is right now?
Speaker 6 (36:44):
Ten grand?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You can get in at seventy six hundred dollars. Let
me show you where the seed is. Oh, that's the
word I actually said in this. I don't know that
you can identify Cat and Wemby from Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Which guy's got the bump?
Speaker 9 (36:58):
I know?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I mean, because you know there was Nick fans going, hey,
am I gonna spend that kind of money if I
they're down to Zip Center court now last row eleven thousand,
seven hundred dollars. I mean that's I mean that right.
You knew people were gonna wait if they win one
of the games. Now they wont give me those techs
could have gotten in for seven hundred dollars. Tonight we'll
hear from Wemby and break down more of Knicks Game
(37:18):
one win over the Spurs. Deck Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio Finals were part of the
Speaker 5 (37:24):
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Jalen Brunson and the Knicks are pulling away from the
Spurs in Game one of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Tip loose by Heart. It's Brunting on the attack, left
hand layup, got two more. Jalen Brunson's take it over
the fourth quarter of Game one.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Mitch Johnson needs time out.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You heard it all on the Knicks Radio network. They
were tied going into the fourth quarter against the Spurs,
but New York right now is up ninety four to
eighty nine with four minutes to go in the game.
Jalen Brunson struggled in the first half, but he is
the leading scorer of the game. He's got twenty five points.
He is one of eight from beyond the arc. Though
Carl Anthony Towns with a double double, eighteen points and
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twelve rebounds. When it comes to the Spurs, Victor Winn Banyama,
He's got twenty one points to lead the Spurs, but
he is five of eighteen from the field, two of
eight from beyond the arc. He does have ten rebounds.
In baseball, the aser up on the Cubs five to four,
top of the tenth inning in Chicago, Dodgers blanking the
Diamondbacks five zero, bottom of the fourth A Monsio Lanios.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
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Speaker 2 (01:31):
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at the top of your screen. Well, three and a
(01:54):
half to go in the fourth quarter, and it looks
like Wenby's going to the free throw line to cut
this to one. Driving on Karl Anthony Towns. He draws
the foul with a big push. Ooh, man, I don't know, Man,
I don't know. You didn't get a grab by Karl
(02:15):
Anthony Towns. Maybe it's gonna get challenged.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But this last couple of minutes, the Spurs looked like
they were on vapors. They looked exhausted. Wenby shot to
hitting the top of the backboard. The Spurs really did
not look like they had anything going on. The Knicks
had a six point lead, but Jalen Brunson misses another
bad miss, Champennie goes to the free throw line for
(02:38):
a couple and now Wenby going for a free throw
to make it a one point game with three and
a half left to go in the fourth quarter. I
felt like the Knicks really had a chance there to
finish the Spurs. They had a really wobbly couple of
minutes and there when it looked like they were spent
because they're exhausted. And this is the time when I thought,
this is what the Knicks need to do. You get
to the fourth quarter at the end when it's close,
(02:59):
execute like you've done all season long. Because the Spurs
are going to be exhausted. Well, they have it exactly
where they want it right now, one point game with
three minutes left to go, and the Spurs look exhausted
and they need to make shots. Jalen Brunson was on
a heater. He had eight points in a row. Now
he's missed his last three and now the Spurs can
actually take the lead with a bucket coming down floor.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
And that was another one of those shots.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He got his space, got his look square up just
inside the free throw line and missed it. But we
finally saw a little bit of the aggression from Wehm
Binyama we and multiple possessions for the Spurs where he
was getting bodied and where normally you'd expect a file call,
no foul call. Frustrated, then had that weird looking three
point shot that hit the top of the backboard. If
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that would have banked in, that would have made Duncan
and Robinson proud.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah, I can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But then he had that frustration drive on cat like
you said, got some extra body into him, did get
the fall call, went to the line, and here we
said at one point game, coming up on two minutes,
Wemby going to the free throw line again. Apparently Wemby's
just gonna go every other time down the floor. So
a little over two minutes left to go, Wemby at
the line could give the Spurs the lead. Right now again,
(04:11):
ninety four to ninety three lead for the Knicks with
two and a half to go in the fourth quarter. Now, meanwhile,
what we just saw a couple moments ago was absolutely insane,
and we have a little more details on it now,
and boy, the picture going around is crazy. It was
a little bit less than ten minutes ago in real time,
(04:32):
a fan ran on the court in the middle of
play and stopped at the right about at the free
throw line and wanted to take a selfie of himself.
This guy runs on the floor, he's laughing, he's got
his camera. Now, I don't know if there's gonna be video,
because I'll tell you what when it goes put online,
this is gonna be one hell of a selfie. He
runs to the free throw line and it's like he's
(04:53):
trying to take a selfie of himself with Wemby behind him.
Security runs out, one guy comes from behind, one guy
comes from under the asket, grabs him and pulls him off.
But the Frostburg just sent me a screen grab of
the guy taking the selfie, and it looks like Wemby
is smiling. But no, I don't know if he's smiling
(05:13):
because here's a guy that's come on the floor to
take a selfie, or if he's going, oh, i'll give
you you, you give your guts, you ran him here.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I'll smile for the cell phone.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Because soccer matches, right, because we've seen plenty of stars
and soccer matches. They look around confused, how did someone
get all the way to the middle of the pitch.
But it's like, all right, appreciation for the effort, here's
your here's your selfie.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Moving on.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
But yeah, very odd circumstance.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And if one of those guys had terry taated his
ass and run him into the court, I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Have blamed him office linebacker.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He earned absolutely getting trucked and obliterated by somebody. I mean,
that's such a foolhardy and jackassery move. But here's the
thing that's gonna go so viral, Like, what's the what's
the most viewed selfie of all time?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The Ellen cell fee from the oscars a few years
ago when she took it and went viral like the
most view things like that's gonna be the most viewed thing.
You know, that was the most she ever seemed human
and likable.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Ah, that was before everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You're not hosting the oscars if people think they still
hate you in public.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But that in reality said it, that was before that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I mean, you're not going back and getting rid of
the clicks that were there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
So I mean, no, that's good. But yeah, all that
to say, it's he'll get.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
His run and someone will know his name. I'm gonna
do my best to just never see his stupid ass again.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Uh, he can beat it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I mean really, I wonder if he took video where
was trying to take a hopefully it's video, because I
mean it really it looks like Wemby's finally.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Uh meanwhile, GMG, just bought the footage. No, just kidding.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
A reversal of fortune in San Antonio. After Wemby free
throws have given the Spurs a one point lead, Jalen
Brunson hits a three from the corner for a two
point lead for the Knicks. They're able to halt them
defensively and now mcal bridges at the free throw line
for two he has made them both. It is a
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ninety nine to ninety five lead for the Knicks with
about a minute left to go in regulation. This is
a game that started out. Each team had runs, the
Knicks reeled them in. It's been great back and forth.
It's been incredible theater. And this is just game one.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
It's just yet.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We still got a minute left to go. But it
has been some kind of fun up and down play.
It's exactly what the NBA wants. You have the Knicks
playing to their level. You have Wemby who has been
playing terrific and trying to take over in the last
couple of minutes. And so this is the NBA is
gonna say, Okay, we got what we want right now. No
one's talking about tanking now. He turned into the Hulk
a little too late, at least at this point, tweeted
(07:48):
the night Elmo hopes both teams have fun or basketballs.
A guy named Evan responded with you live in New
York City, you like it, trader?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
So he had that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Brunson Wow, Okay, sorry, here's what just happened. Cheering in
the press box Wemby turns it over badly in the
front court by the Spurs. He was I don't know
if he was gonna look like he was gonna try
to dribble back and take a three, but Wemby turns
it over. The Knicks go down and Jalen Brunson hits
a shot to make it a one oh one ninety
(08:22):
five lead. They also have the basketball as Wemby has
missed a three, so it's a six point Nick lead
with twenty nine seconds left go. Justin we were saying
great things about wem Baby. That was a bad turnover.
It was it was an unforced error. He just like
looks like he lost control, looks like he was trying
to pull his dribble back and the ball gets knocked out.
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Josh Hart picks it up, the Knicks get in for
a hoop by Jalen Brunson and now Ogian Unobi at
the free throw line. He has made the first of two.
A seven point lead now for the Knicks with thirty
seconds left to go, fans starting to celebrate. Adam Silver
is still excited because well, we got both superstars, got
hurt and stayed in the game.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Not quite the Willis Reid moment.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But Jalen Brunson, remember all that time ago, if we
hit the rewind, left the game, knee hobbled, went to
the locker room, sat on the bench for the first
four plus minutes of the second quarter, and then he's
put them on his back here in the fourth quarter,
as we've seen so many times during the regular season
and into these playoffs. Twenty seconds left to go. It's
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a one oh three ninety five lead for the Knicks.
Ball out of bounds to the Spurs again. Twenty seconds
left and the Knicks are that much away from a
one game to none lead in the NBA Finals. Nick
Fans who made the tripper going nuts. Tracy Morgan is
going crazy. Uh, look gonna be another bad day for
(09:51):
the Jalen Brunson's too small, not good enough to lead
a team to a championship. That hoop he just scored.
Trying to draw the foul, and I don't know why
he's trying to draw the foul. They're not going to
put him at the free throw line and not putting
anybody else in the line besides Wemby still is able
to hit that tough jumper that ten to fifteen foot jumper,
that he has become the best guy in the league
(10:11):
at hitting. You know KD had that for a few years.
The mid range jumper was his the lost art was
always fun to see. No one hits that jumper like
Jalen Brunson. Despite a bad night shooting, he now has
thirty points and the Knicks are twenty seconds away from
a one game to none lead.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Mike Harmon, the Knicks are twenty seconds away.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Game one, long series to come, but a huge effort
here fourth quarter Brunson again the scare of the knee,
but odd running ragged right, He's finding open spots. And
even when he had that little cold streak, wasn't that
the Spurs were able to really come back and surmount
much of an effort. The Aaron Fox has had another
(10:51):
invisible game. Calden Johnson struggled as he did much of
the last series, and when Ben Yama you called for
him to be the incredible Hulk a couple of weeks ago.
He showed up at in different spots during that thunder
series here passive, frustrated.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Good job by Cat, good job by Mitchell Robinson, bodying.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Him up left and right, here was as we're watching
a review and I think a challenge on the play.
Aaron Fox had an open lane on bridges for a layup,
decided to throw it to the corner and your guy
Landry Shammitt.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Yeah, it's under review.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It looked like it was off of Shammitt when that's
why I said ball at a bounce of the spurs.
But replay looks like it might have gone off Champenny's hand.
So now they're looking at it. Right now the play
is under reviewed. This would now be Nix ball with
twenty seconds to go in an eight point lead, so
they're looking at it. The angle they just showed really
made it look like it was off the spurs. But again,
(11:50):
you know, hey, who knows.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Simultanoter is officiating this game.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
You never know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It might have an extra angle, I don't know know,
But Champagny for that to that point, he's five of
ten from the field, five to nine from three, he's
got one point in the second half. Yeah, right, he's
been absolutely invisible. The Knicks give them credit, only eight
turnovers in the game. They've done a great job of
keeping control, keeping their composure and even with some of
(12:16):
those bad shot selection, you know you're you're getting good
work on the glass. And again Karl Anthony Towns for
all all, Brunson's fourth quarter was amazing, but Karl Anthony
Towns is the tale of the tape. He has a
best way both offensively and defensively. This you could say
it's the Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
But that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
The defensive mets amazing aren't gonna show in the in
the box score. That's the thing, right, You're gonna look
at Wemby's Wemby's shooting percentage and just say, wow, he
had an off night. He took a nine to three pointers.
He's six of twenty one, twelve to thirteen from the
foul line. But what Karl Anthony Towns did as a
as a primary defenser and just being an agitator, And
(12:54):
that's the thing we've seen with Wemby at times, just
like Jokic earlier in that series again Minnesota, there's just
a point where he gets a little out of himself.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But the funny thing is, you talk, Okay, Wenby's not
shot well, Brun's had shot well.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
You know who's shot well in this game?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Nobody, No, it's any really video.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
The Knicks are at forty percent and the Spurs are
at thirty six percent. Outside of Champagne, who hit all
his shots in the first half, he is scoreless or
he has one point in the second half. He was
five of six from the floor in the first half,
oh for four in the second half.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Nobody has shot well that.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
This has been a one of those typical finals games
where Okay, you have a layoff for the Knicks for
a little while, you have the Spurs trying to come
back emotionally to try to uh you know, try to
get game one, and it's become a bit of a fight,
and it's been a slog fest and it looks like
the Knicks are going to come through here. The ball
on review was viewed to be off of the Spurs.
(13:48):
So the Knicks are going to the free throw line
up by eight with twenty seconds left to go and
a couple of free throws. That's gonna salt this thing
away from New York. Look, get you, I'm kidching, Oh
you how excited I am?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Scream? I want to scream.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I'm sorry, just just let it out.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Back away from the microphone, so you don't blow my
ears so excited because whenever I plug in here, right,
we all need to have annual hearing tests added to
our are our things. But yeah, to your point, these
shooting percentages are awful. You look at the Spurs for
the game, sixteen assists on their thirty two makes against
twelve turnovers, whereby you've got the Knicks twenty assists against
(14:25):
eight turnovers, eight steals on the game. So one oh
five ninety five is the Knicks lead after two free
throws by Og and Unobi, and the Knicks are gonna
dribble this one out.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Go for the dog, get the over, go New York, Go,
New York coat. Oh yeah, give it to me. Five
second dance party, the Knicks run Nicks in four. The
Knicks win it by double digits, one oh five ninety five.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Something is happening on the floor right now. Jalen Brunson
had word with somebody. I looked at the scorers table,
hard to tell who it was, but he had to
be moved away from the scorer's table. Go back and
look and see that again. They haven't shown a replay yet.
Obviously they're you know, they're cutting around different things. Interviews
(15:16):
with different players. It looked like he definitely had something
to say to somebody. Don't know who it was, don't
know what, but a little chippy way to end game
one of the NBA Finals. Yeah, you got an idiot
running on the quarter earlier, he got some chippiness, a
lot of back and forth, a lot of yelling at
the officials and Scott Foster's crew over the course of
(15:36):
the night trying to figure out what they were watching
in an EBB and a flow of this game. But
for Jalen Brunston, yeah, a little, little odd moment as
he goes to do the postgame interview. But fourth quarter,
Brunson front and center once again injury scare earlier, but
finishes the job. He and Kat on full display right
carrying this squad. And for those that paid the under
(15:58):
seven hundred bucks which was get in earlier today, I
saw tickets at six twenty eight or something like that,
including all fees they got, they got a hell of
a game.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I mean, look, I'm shaking right now.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
No, no, you're a little twitch now, Like we're three
games away from the NBA title. I don't know if
it's sodium from the pizza that's gonna make you stroked out,
or if it's the excitement, Oh no, no, no, I
know I need this game.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
You know what I need?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I need sugar. Now, okay, we'll get it.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
We'll get you.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You need more sugar, I need more sugar. And here
and it turns out to be a ten point win.
What are the Knicks do in the playoffs? They win
by double dis seven straight road games where they've won
by at least ten points. The winner of Game one
wins the NBA title seventy percent of the time.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
You couldn't even wait eight seconds? I could they flash that.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Graphic up on the monitor, like the wait, if you
just start squealing, man, someone's handing you a lollypop.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Exite, old tyser.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Let's get call Becky Hammond and Draymond Green to get
on the show. I want to talk about how Jalen
Brunt is not good enough to win. Can we can
you call it? Don't get both you know what? Both
of them on at the same time. I like, I
have both of them on at the same time and
talk to them.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Okay, I got Raymond right now.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know what's funny is they did coming back from
a commercial they did show her uh her retired number
up in the band and the rafters the Becky Hammond manner.
I don't know what the commentary was because obviously we
don't have the sound here in the studio, but it
made for a funny moment, especially as Jalen Brutson was,
you know, putting the uh this squad on his back
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like he was carrying a piano.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yeah, so trying to put on your fan hand for
a second. We're not on that just for a second,
really big stitch up. Let's let's change the energy just
for a second. Let's say the Knicks win it all.
What is the first thing you would do?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't know I would scream. I don't I don't
know what I would do. I really don't. I have
no idea, because how often do you think I've had
time to really think that realistically the Knicks can win
the title.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I mean, come on, man, that's it.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's like saying, hey, I realistly, Jason, if you ever
met Scarlet Johansson, right, and she was single and you
were single, and like, what would be your move? Like, oh, yeah, okay,
Like I mean, you may as well ask me that.
Of course, you give her a hat. What do you
mean she clearly likes funny people.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, that is true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That it's but I don't have quite the hairline the
Colin jos tess like he's he's got much better hair
than I do.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Under that he's bald.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, it's okay, you know, under that great head of hair,
your husband's bald scarlet About that?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
His scalpel looks just like mine. I've already photoshopped him.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
This is what he gonna look like.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
In five ye ah, we are just getting started. The
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Speaker 6 (19:52):
Oh, let's hear that final.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Com the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
We're down fourteen in the third quarter. But if we
learned anything during this postseason run, it's you never count
out the New York Knicks. They've won a twelfth consecutive
playoff game, and that's stolen Game one of the NBA
Finals one oh five ninety five.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Next radio on the call, I said, Nixon five, I
may have given the Spurs too much.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Four.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Nickson four.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Joining us now on the hot line, a man who.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I thought was going to flee back to Greece, but
has graciously once again agreed to join us. After the
Knicks Game one, winning the NBA Finals. It is Fox
Sports won Insider Extraordinary Rick Buker Rick one win down,
three to go for the Knicks, just like I've been
telling you all year.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Rick, yep.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Can't get here fast enough.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
You're you're telling me, Rick, come.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
On now, I know I'm gonna be tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'm actually off tomorrow, which is kind of funny. Look,
it's like we said last night, here's gonna be. Here's
how Game one is going to go. The Knicks are
going to stay close, the Spurs are going to be
exhausted in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks are going
to take over, which is what they've done all season long.
And that's exactly what happened. You could see, I mean,
Wemby's jumpers are hitting the top of the backboard. You
(21:19):
could see that they just all of a sudden that
guess Tank got to e and the Knicks were able
to pull away in another double digit win for the Knicks.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Yeah, I thought it was certainly they out executed. The
Knicks did executed the Spurs down the stretch, turnovers by
the Aaron Fox by Wemby partly in fatigue, for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I also think just sort.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Of inexperience in the moment they played, and it's been
an issue with them even in the Oklahoma City series,
where they just play too.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Fast at times.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
And I've said it, I said it throughout the Thunder series,
like when you get to this stage of the playoffs,
it's not always about just making the electric play. Sometimes
it's just about not beating yourself and giving yourself a chance.
And ultimately, you know, if you saw the Knicks down
(22:12):
the stretch, it wasn't like they were making every shot,
but they were getting a shot every time. And when
you get a shot, at least you have the opportunity
to get back and defend. And ultimately that made the
difference in terms of the execution and so and then
you know, let's face it, you got Jalen Brunson, proven closer.
(22:34):
Who is the closer for the San Antonio Spurs. My
money would be on Dylan Harper, but you're talking about
a rookie and or Victor winban Yama, a big man
who you it's a little bit of a struggle to
get him the ball in places that he can be effective.
So certainly there's there's certain things that the Knicks have
(22:57):
an edge in and they came to for in this
particular game. I think we're going to have a great series.
I'm still not I went into it thinking the Spurs
were going to win, but that the Knicks had a chance,
and a bigger chance than most people were giving them.
I'm going to stick with that for now. I need
(23:17):
to see I need to see another game, simply because
san Antonio has been so good at making adjustments and
learning from their mistakes in short order, and they've got
a few mistakes that they need to learn from.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
One of the things we pride ourselves on the show
is being ahead of the curve and being first to
say it. So let me start throwing flowers in the
general defensive effort that we got in that direction for
Karl Anthony Towns things that have never been said on
national radio before.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
No, I mean he's still kind of goofy.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Right, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
After he took the elbow or he took the shoulder
to the chest in the final minutes from Wemby and
he's laying down and there was.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Just sticulation or suggestions. I'm like, what is he.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Doing right now? But that said, you know, I think Rick, it's.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Probably the best game of his career. I mean, not
only offensively eighteen twelve and four assists, and what he
did because Wenby was what what two for eleven something
like that with with as a primary defender, like this
is the game, This is the best game of his career.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
That he's had.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Yeah, well, and I've said it all year. What my
feeling is is that that Carl has been His numbers
haven't been as as good or as as robust as
they were in Minnesota or at other times even as
a nick but but he's been more efficient and he's
been willing to play that secondary role. And Jalen said
(24:45):
something afterward about how he felt that sort of their
chemistry and having each other's back was what carried them
through this game. And I really think that that's one
of the the underlying or the underrated element it's about
this team, because there was so much talk at the
beginning of the year about it being a fractured team,
(25:06):
about guys struggling with their roles, about and what I've
seen down the stretch is a team that's come together
and has come to understand who and what they are
and and and what everybody the role that everybody has
to play, and the hierarchy is built. And that's what
I really loved about sort of watching these two teams
right now, is that you don't get you know, there's
(25:29):
some teams, usually when they have a James Harten on them,
where there's there's a there's a battle of who's supposed
to be taking the shot and what are we supposed
to be doing in a given situation. And I think
with both of these teams, everybody's committed to the game
plan and UH and Karl Anthony Towns included, and I
(25:49):
don't know how many times we've felt that way about
about Towns and that he was all in for doing
what he needed to do in order for the team
to win, as opposed to doing everything that he thought
he should be doing in order for the team to win.
There's a difference there, but there's a big one and
it's probably one of the biggest reasons why the Knicks
are in the finals.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
In up one L go ahead, Jess if you could
put a finger on, because I have my thoughts, I
kind of think it's more of a Over the course
of the last month of the regular season, defensively, the
Knicks really started to get it and you would wouldn't
look at the floor and say, boy, you can't play
Brunston and Karl Anthony Towns together anymore. So it took
him a while, but the last month they started to
(26:29):
get it. When Karl Anthony Towns became more facilitator, that
really opened up the offense. It's one of those things
where it's a late breaking phenomenon, but it's still something
that happened over over a period of time where you
could see where the Knicks were with a month ago
in the regular season and then basically after Game three
against the Hawks.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Yeah, no, and and when you have you know, when
you have success, when you have positive results, that gets
everybody buying into what needs to be done. And let's
face it, the Knicks, when you look at all the
guys on the team and all they've been through, it
(27:08):
reminds me a little bit of the Boston Celtics when
they brought Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen and.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Paul Pierce together.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
It's guys who've been around the league long enough to
know that your opportunities to go win a ring are
few and far between. Young guys, you know, the Anthony
Edwards in the league think, ah, you know I've got time,
I'm going to get one. And then you get guys
that have been around for a minute, like a Josh Hart,
and have been in a couple of different places, and
they realize, man, we may never get this chance again.
(27:37):
And so it results in guys being willing to make
sacrifices and having a focus and putting what the team
needs first, that being defense as well as you can
play it, even if you're not a great defender, give
me the effort, don't quit on plays, do what you can,
and let's see if we're good enough. I think that's
(28:01):
that's the mindset of the Knicks. It also helped that
there was probably what Mike, what would you say? I
would say probably at least five thousand Jason Smith's in
the building, oh waiting, Yeah, No, absolutely, in the stands,
there was. There was a Jason Smith influence in the
(28:22):
in the in the sands in San Antonio, no question
about it.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Hey, say what you want about Knicks fans, but we
travel everywhere. If that when the team is seventeen and
sixty five, we are still following and traveling and going,
like say, they always show up. They show up more
than the Knicks over the past couple of decades.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
But we always show up Rick.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
Now, what the question I have is, why do they
always show up and they look like they're dressed exactly
the way they would if they were taking the subwave
and they're unshaven.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I got no problem with it. Come as you are,
may and as it's part of life. But what was
interesting watching you know Jason here? I wish I had
another camera on him here in the studio from like
the side of watching his eyes get wide with each
big shot or recoil a little bit. If we put
a heart monitor on him, it might have been really
(29:12):
extra extra century.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Viewing here for us ring oh Man, next level star.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I'll tell you I I I exactly I felt. I
felt odd and weird all day and and it really hit.
It's it's uh its peak, honestly, when Wemby just turned
it over it with with a minute left to go
and they're down for and he's got and he just
it's an unforced error. He tried and Brunson hits that
incredible lean in, lean back, and I don't know why
he's leaning.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
In for contact. They weren't putting it the free throw line.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He hits that shot, it's a six point lead, and
that that was when I said, this is going this
is going our way.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Like all of a.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Sudden, I'm thinking Wemby's gonna hit a three. Wenby's gonna
get to the free throw line, and he just biffs it,
And I was it was stunning. When I saw that happen.
I said, oh my god, we're gonna win. We're gonna win.
When I saw that ball on the ground and heart
picks up that we're gonna win, We're gonna win this game.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
It probably would have been the It probably was the
exact opposite feeling of when Wemby came down and hit
that three over Mitchell Robinson.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
You're like, oh no, yeah no.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I've seen this.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
I've seen this movie before.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Yeah no.
Speaker 10 (30:16):
But I mean, I think that was an example like
I don't I don't want Wemby with the game on
the line. I don't want him trying to cross over
Mitchell Robinson at the three point line because and I
get this is what I mean about not beating yourself,
Like because if you do, if you don't get it there,
(30:37):
or if he does turn the ball over and he's
a seven to five guy. I mean, you can he
dribbles low for a tall guy. The opportunity for something
to go wrong and for that to be a live
ball going the other direction is just too great. Like
you need to play more efficient, thoughtful basketball in those situations.
(30:59):
And it's what I love about about Wemby at this stage.
First time he's in the finals, he's pulling up and
shooting threes, no problem with you know, in a critical
situation he's looking to cross somebody over at thirty feet.
But ultimately it's experience tells you this is not the
(31:20):
shot we want. I mean, you looked at Jalen Brunson,
and he was where he was going and what he
was trying to get. He was still his same methodical
self in looking for his shots and getting to his spots,
and ultimately that made the difference.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker.
Check out the On the Ball podcast as well. Rick,
thank you for joining us. We'll talk to you after
game two on Friday night. I know you want to
press fast forward on the DVR to get to Game two,
but you'll just have to wait forty eight hours.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
I'm just disappointed that we didn't have a single word
about Landry Shamis show.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Ah the legend.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Let me let me leave you with how you like
to leave us on the show many times by just
saying to you, next show, I'm in hell, Rick, see
you buddy, have fun.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh Mike yo, Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Though, see you Friday, buddy, Always great style. Love Redhuker
again on Twitter at Rick Buker. I got his new
book wherever you get your books bound in rich Mahogany.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
The Knicks lead the NBA Finals one zip. We got
more coming up next, including what kind of day it
(32:38):
was for the Knicks. They're good karma. We can't I
can't tell you how far this good karma is spreading.
That's next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 6 (32:54):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Listen to the Knicks win, take a lead, one game
to know, but he's excited to Lindsey Buckingham's gonna come
and defeat you. Nick one oh five Spurs ninety five.
Everything coming up next so much so they're good. Karma
has extended to the Jets. I told you you can't
(33:17):
use that phrase.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
I can say that, I can say good, and I
could say that.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
You gotta have a pause.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Uh, just really quick before you get into a big
topics around this game. Uh announcing Michael Parsons will be
back in October for the Packers. Right, big NFL stories.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Mike Tom We're gonna be the coach by then, Jets.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Jets play the Packers week two. We yeah, Mika Parsons.
Everything's coming up New York Man, Aaron's coming up.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
So who's gonna make a one hundred and fifty million
dollars be in the pass rusher that runs nuts.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
It's like, look, I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Next, But but sir, like I, I called really fast,
talked to one of my good friends and we just
screamed for five minutes, just yelling, let's e F and go,
Let's e F and go. A few minutes ago it
was really he's in New York, he says, I. I
can't tell you what it's like in the city right now.
And look, if the Knicks win the title, which now
(34:06):
looks really really possible, like the odds I'm sure have
now flipped you in Game one in San Antonio, the
way the Spurs look, the way the Spurs don't have
a closer. If the Knicks win, the city is gonna
look like I Am Legend meets Escape from New York.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
That's what the streets of New York are gonna look like.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Man, it's gonna look it's desolate, with with with you know,
snake pliskin and lions showing up and what you know,
that's what it's.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
If you give someone could do that, if you could
get that, I'm sure a I could do that.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
I'm done by the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
If I am Legend meets Escape from New York, what.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
The city would like.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I mean I am Legend before it was empty, like
when everything was happening and the virus got out and everybody, yeah, yeah,
that's what I mean, when things went nuts and you know,
I mean that part of it so not him by
himself watching you know today's show reruns.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Uh, that's what the city's gonna look like. That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
And if you I think I'm wrong, Alex Tyshert just
found this video that uh Knicks fans put up. That's
a compilation of things that have been said outside the
arena following watch parties this year. Right so, because you
know the Nick obviously big watch party mass word. I
think they filled up MSG tonight. We can't play all
of it for you because boy, we really can't, but
(35:20):
we could play this.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
This is this is how it ends.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
This is this is a Knicks fan and they're all
grabbing microphones yelling into this.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
This is the last Nick fan in the video.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Go ahead, if.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
We win the finals, we're part of this is ting bang.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, No, that's I wish I could say that. Oh,
that's a little bit of that. We're just being a
little figurative. No, no, no, oh, it's a I I
the city. That's what it's gonna look like. Man, that's
the city. Is all I can say is if I
was a first responder police officer, I'm they're going over
the next two weeks.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
The amount of overtime is going to pay for a
house in the Hamptons.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
Well, you know, when you need.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
To have, you need to have, you know, you know, Okay,
we got to have him on call for Game four,
Game five, Game six, Game two, in game game three
and game four are gonna be. Now, I can't even
tell you what that's gonna be. Game three title? Ready
to have some fun, all right?
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Man?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Current odds for the NBA Finals the Knicks are now
minus one thirty four. That is an implied fifty seven
percent win when seventy percent of the time the team
that wins Game one wins the NBA. No, I remember
that statue. The other is Game three? Get in early
this morning?
Speaker 6 (36:37):
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Okay, fifty three hundred dollars about all in including fees?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
What do you think it is right now?
Speaker 6 (36:44):
Ten grand?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You can get in at seventy six hundred dollars. Let
me show you where the seed is. Oh, that's the
word I actually said in this. I don't know that
you can identify Cat and Wemby from Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Which guy's got the bump?
Speaker 9 (36:58):
I know?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I mean, because you know there was Nick fans going, hey,
am I gonna spend that kind of money if I
they're down to Zip Center court now last row eleven thousand,
seven hundred dollars. I mean that's I mean that right.
You knew people were gonna wait if they win one
of the games. Now they wont give me those techs
could have gotten in for seven hundred dollars. Tonight we'll
hear from Wemby and break down more of Knicks Game
(37:18):
one win over the Spurs. Deck Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio Finals were part of the
Speaker 5 (37:24):
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